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Lecture "Fashion and Space"

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11.04.2026 · 15:00
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Saint Petersburg
Центральная городская публичная библиотека имени Маяковского
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The lecture on the connection between fashion and space shows how dreams of the future, flights, and new technologies have changed the language of clothing, jewelry, and images. Through global brands, Soviet design, and visual culture, listeners will see why the space theme has remained a source of fresh ideas, bold forms, and spectacular imagination for decades. Space has long existed not only in science and technology but also in the imagination of designers. As soon as humanity seriously approached flights beyond Earth, it immediately changed the visual language of the era. Metallic fabrics, futuristic silhouettes, unusual materials, graphic accessories, and hairstyles that seem to have come from tomorrow became part of a grand dream about the future. The lecture offers to trace how this dream was embodied in fashion and why its influence remains so noticeable to this day. At the center of the conversation are the ideas of 20th-century designers about what people in the new century will wear, and how these fantasies resonate with today's runways. Using examples from global brands, listeners will see how space transformed into a source of forms, colors, and visual effects. It is particularly interesting that this conversation will go far beyond clothing in the narrow sense. It will also address textiles, jewelry, fashion shows, hairstyles, cinema, and photography - everything that shaped the image of a cosmic future in mass culture. A special place will be given to the Soviet experience. It allows us to view the topic not as an abstract fascination with futurism, but as part of a historical moment when space exploration was perceived as a real achievement and a huge symbolic breakthrough. The connection of the lecture with the 65th anniversary of the first human flight into space makes this conversation especially expressive: through fashion, one can see how cultural memory preserves significant events and transforms them into forms, materials, and signs of everyday life. The lecturer Grigory Kataev is a fashion historian, art expert, vintage collector, and educator.

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