If you're the kind of person who would enjoy wearing your Starfleet uniform to do the grocery shopping, this might be the news you've been waiting for.

Sci-fi is now officially in fashion according to one of the industry's heavyweights.

Prada's Menswear 2022 Fall Winter Fashion Show boasts sci-fi inspired sets, clothing and also prominent sci-fi actors like Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park, Thor: Ragnarok, Independence Day, The Fly, Earth Girls Are Easy), Kyle MacLachlan (Dune 1984), Asa Butterfield (Ender's Game) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Maze Runner).

It can be watched in full on YouTube and clocks in at a modest 13 minutes.

A few of the models - or possibly actors - look like they can't help but crack a smile at being in a Prada fashion show and Jeff Goldblum at the end really works the runway.

We would describe the collection as oversized and boxy.

Occasionally plastic or furry.

Some wild gloves and socks.

Didn't love it.

Yes, here's us turning our nose up at Prada.

Their press release details that it's supposed to be workwear and describes the collection a little bit more positively.

Here, everyday reality is valorized, its signs and signifiers exchanged with those of elegance and sophistication. Through this interplay, a merit and worth is afforded to human endeavour at all levels: perceived uniforms of employ achieve new importance. A sense of occasion is given to everyday activity - an import, a worth, emphasising the value of work to society.

Eschewing hierarchy, a dignity is proposed to pragmatic clothing, uniforms of reality, rematerialized in precious leather and silk tech as a mark of respect and value. These are laid alongside the language of sartorial tailoring, a formality which confers an importance. Pragmatism can affect elegance - sartorial construction methods are applied to knitwear, bomber jackets and parkas, formalising these examples of universal clothing. Elegance becomes a means of celebration, of imparting significance.

Garments exemplify a constructed modernism, their inherent architecture serving to define shape and form. The body is given emphasis, shoulders and waist delineated through traditional tailoring, a silhouette then transmuted to everyday garments, the two disciplines not only juxtaposed but brought together as one. Through fabrication and methodology, an equal gravity is given to each genre of clothing - every facet of reality is offered significance, a sophistication and esteem, a lasting value.

[ Main Image: Jeff Goldblum in Prada Menswear Show. Credit: Prada via YouTube. ]

References

Fashion Channel. (January 17, 2022). Prada Menswear Fall 2022 Milan - CNMI. YouTube.

Prada (January 16, 2022). Prada Fall/Winter 2022 Menswear Show - Body of Work.

Prada (January 16, 2022). Prada Menswear F/W 2022 Fashion Show.