In the first groundbreaking partnership between an Italian luxury fashion house and a commercial space company, Axiom Space, industry leader and architect of the world’s first commercial space station, announces a collaboration with Prada on NASA's lunar spacesuits for the Artemis III mission.
This might sound frivolous at first, but the more you think about the less that it seems so. Prada are famed for their minimalist aesthetic. If they can successfully bring that to spacesuit design it will be a bonus. But they can add more. They have expertise in materials and garment manufacturing that space companies won’t have. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this collaboration. It might become a “classic” space suit design, used into the 2030s and 40s.
This might sound frivolous at first, but the more you think about the less that it seems so. Prada are famed for their minimalist aesthetic. If they can successfully bring that to spacesuit design it will be a bonus. But they can add more. They have expertise in materials and garment manufacturing that space companies won’t have. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this collaboration. It might become a “classic” space suit design, used into the 2030s and 40s.