10 brands that have brought aliens on the runaway The evolution of alien fashion from André Courrèges to Riccardo Tisci

Starting from the first moon landing in 1969, from the exploration of Mars in 2020 to the space colonialism of Elon Musk, for sixty years now the world of aliens has been a source of inspiration for designers, there is no stylist who has not enjoyed imagining aliens, but above all imagining dressing them. A futuristic approach to fashion, in stark contrast to the creative direction followed by most brands in recent years: adapting their past to the present, in a frantic regressive race towards everything that is vintage and that in the end does not create anything new. By definition, the extraterrestrial represents the imagination in its pure state, the materialization of an idea of different that reality does not reveal but exists only in the mind of those who create and in the eyes of those who look. And this is why the alien aesthetic represents one of the recurring trends of futurist fashion and generates the most disparate effects, with results ranging from ridiculous to disturbing, but that are always remembered.

Here is a list of 10 brands that have brought aliens on the catwalk and that we must thank if, thinking of an extragalactic invasion, we no longer feel frozen but vaguely amused.

André Courrèges, Moon Girl, 1964

Per la primavera/estate 2022 Burberry presenta forse le aliene più sexy che abbiamo mai visto, con gli iconici trench della maison tagliati per svelare l’intimo, tute metallizzate aderenti, caschi da cavallerizza, ma soprattutto con quelle che sono state soprannominate da Tisci stesso Bambi Ears, orecchie cadenti in silicone che ricordano allo stesso tempo tratti somatici extraterrestri, Dobby the house elf e il celebre cervo Disney.