How we Will Dress in the Future, According to Hollywood
By Calum Marsh
This week sees the release of Divergent,
yet another in an apparently endless line of dystopian science-fiction
stories based on a wildly popular series of Young Adult novels. As you
might expect, Divergent is set in an Orwellian future world
where homogeneity reigns supreme — a point driven home, as usual, by a
costume design scheme that favors the austere and dreary. In the future,
if movies like these are anything to go by, we’ll all be wearing
monochrome onesies. That’s pretty fcking bleak.
Well, fortunately for us, some movies set in the
future (of both the near and distant varieties) have realized a more
adventurous vision of our culture’s sartorial horizon. And so, as an
antidote to Divergent’s omnipresent grays, we’ve put together a list of future fashions we’re eager to see made real.
A Clockwork Orange
Alex
DeLarge and his companionable droogs rocked an ensemble of legendary
audacity: jet-black combat boots, crisp white button-down and pants, an
oversized cup worn on the outside (hoisted up by suspenders, naturally),
garish false eyelashes, and, to top it all off, a black felt bowler
hat. Nothing instills menace in the populace quite like this
combination, and we hope to one day have the nerve to stroll down the
streets in kind.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Jude
Law’s Gigolo Joe maybe laid it on a bit thick (and we could do without
the hair), but the high-gloss leather blazer/trenchcoat hybrid he wears
through the film has a certain charm. Plus, check out that collar: we
knew the oversized collars of the 1970s would make a comeback someday,
even if it took a century.
Her
Last year’s best advance in menswear came courtesy of Spike Jonze, whose future-set romantic drama Her shot high-waisted pants to the top of every guy’s dream wardrobe list. Her’s
vision of Los Angeles in the future, where the skylined looks like
(because, well, it was filmed in) Shanghai and a man can date his phone,
featured no shortage of dreamed-up fantasies to look forward to. But
designers of the future, we implore you: make the high pants happen.
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