Haute Space Style, Function + Fashion!

At a globally held space fete, dreamy Vanna Bonta introduced the ultimate footwear of women explorers: a convertible shoe that goes from flats to heels, “Because when you get there, you need something to wear.” Vanna talked thermal fabric, convertible shoes and beyond because, people, she is right, we already are in space!

Her blond hair piled high, wearing a bright orange suit, white gloves and pumps, adventuresome author Vanna Bonta looked like she stepped out of the moon-landing era 1960s, except for the flashing rave
hair lights and a glowing crystal earring in one ear.

At a space-lovers’ festival known as Yuri’s Night, a yearly space bash commemorating the first human in space and the anniversary of the space shuttle, Vanna Bonta confessed from the stage to thousands that she would have been voted least likely to give a talk about fashion, admitting she often used paper clips for hair barrettes so she could get on with things that interested her.

Bonta said space is the best inspiration for urban wear “hot haute” style, which should multi-task as well as express and impress. I liked the bluetooth earring idea, not having to hold your ear while jogging and talking!

Agreeing with Yves St. Laurent that fashion is whimsy but style is a forever thing, the Flight quantum fiction author said space wear style is all about the “convergence of fashion and function.”

Bonta held up a pair of flats and praised them as sensible shoes.

“But remember,” she said, smiling a reminder to spaceship travelers. “When you get there…” and with a flick of her finger, the flats ejected heels as she finished, “… you need something to wear.”

How cool is that? It’s called the Ever shoe, a combination flat that converts to heels!

Anousheh Ansari, the first female independent space explorer, deserved to be thanked, Bonta said, for bringing bling to space and making it “human for girls everywhere” when she mentioned her lip gloss
floated away within five minutes of arriving at the International Space Station.

Calling for future fashion to move beyond “the little black dress” of space, Bonta said she was glad the times were catching up as she described her idea of exciting fashion items such as spray on protective “second skins” that glitter, portable atmosphere and hydration in balloon couture, self-illuminating purse interiors, (yes!) thermal fabric, fabrics in the brilliant colors of the cosmos, and velvet with fibers that are sensors.

Bonta’s exciting presentation finished with an aerial dance by The Aerial Showgirls, who choreographed a special performance to Bonta’s music about zero gravity, human wonder, and flight. The
acrobatic stunts included flowing yards of silk fabric like wings from over 35 feet in the air.

Selected spacewear from a 2007 Tokyo design contest was showcased at the event by Misuzu Onuki of the Space Fashion Organization.

Bonta is a familiar face as the actress who plays the cameo of the hero’s young mother in the ever-popular fantasy movie The Beastmaster. She supported her poetry and writing habit as an actress and dancing in MTV videos! She has flown in zero gravity and made fashion headlines around the world in 2006 when she revealed the innovation of the 2Suit, a garment that includes diaphanous inner material designed hanging with your honey in weightless environments of space.

For a woman who wrote the Urban Dictionary definition of dorkular (seriously), this self-effacing beauty is haute.