Move over big clunky spacesuits, haute attire is coming through. JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Agency) has sponsored a Hyper Space Couture Design Contest. It is a multi-staged contest in which over 800+ designs were submitted for use inside suborbital flights. After the initial "dreams" stage of the contest, the top 10 designs have been selected to be manufactured and exhibited at a space couture fashion show in the spring of 2007, in both Tokyo and Paris. The effort is headed up by leading Japanese fashion designer Eri Matsui, who has designed a wedding dress for Zero-G. She is also a judge for the contest. With Rocketplane Kistler as a major sponsor, and exhibitor of the winning fashions for its virgin suborbital flights, space fashion is not only haute, but HOT!
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