Dear Shaded Viewers,
The Parodi Costume Collection’s latest exhibition, Fashion in Orbit: Space Age Past and Future, lands in Miami with a star-studded lineup of over forty garments and accessories from fashion’s most cosmic visionaries: think André Courrèges, Paco Rabanne, Pierre Cardin, Mary Quant, Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo, Junya Watanabe, Stella McCartney, and more.
Curated by Ab Thielen and Valeria Fajardo, the show is organized into six conceptual “planets,” each orbiting around the legacy of Space Age ingenuity—material innovation, endurance, kinetic patterns, geometry, body autonomy, and structural construction. The installation pays homage to kinetic artist Jesús Rafael Soto and the original Space Age couturiers, with a narrative that fuses technology, Op Art, and fashion into a vision of the future.
The exhibition traces 75 years of design, from Courrèges’ iconic go-go boots and Rabanne’s metallic dresses to Miyake’s sculptural Paper Lantern Dress and Watanabe’s parachute experiments. It’s a journey through the decades when fashion dared to dream of life beyond Earth, using plastic, metal, and even paper to imagine silhouettes for a new frontier.
Today, as humanity inches closer to actual life in orbit, designers like Chalayan, Ninomiya, and Kawakubo continue the legacy—blending nostalgia, innovation, and a dash of sci-fi fantasy. Fashion in Orbit invites visitors to step into this immersive cosmos and reflect on how art, technology, and fashion collide as we contemplate our place in the universe.
Later,
Diane
