The most enduring fashion lives on the cutting edge. And what’s more forward-thinking than space travel, techno dystopias, and explorations of the distant future? Science fiction has given cinema many of the most iconic costumes in the medium’s history, and these garments have a distinct connection to high fashion, with the approaches to wardrobe influencing each other in equal measure.
Sci-fi is, of course, a vast designation, but the films (and TV projects) over the last forty years with the strongest connection to high fashion fall into a few subgenres: maximalist space stories (The Fifth Element, Avatar), fantasy adjacent (Marvel’s Agatha All Along), cyberpunk (the Matrix franchise), the uncanny near-future (The Lobster, Her), and the post-apocalyptic and dystopian (the Blade Runner films, The Creator). The last subgenre includes what is…
