Space has always been one of fashion’s great obsessions. From futuristic uniforms imagined by cinema to the continuous incursions of space aesthetics on the runways, the cosmos has functioned for decades as a laboratory of projections and fantasies. Today, however, the relationship seems to have inverted: it is no longer fashion imagining space, but space requiring the know-how of fashion.
This is precisely what is happening with Prada which, after participating in the development of the AxEMU (Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit) lunar spacesuit presented in 2024, has collaborated once again with Axiom Space, the company commissioned by NASA to develop the new generation of spacesuits for the Artemis missions.
