A trend of ASTROnomic proportions

The word Galactic has been widely used to describe one of AW12's most coveted trends;

GA-LAC-TIC [guh-lak-tik] - adjective
1. Astronomy.
a) of or pertaining to a galaxy
b) of or pertaining to the Milky Way
2. immense; huge; vast

As the second definition suggests, this is a vast trend and encompasses more than just stars and space, it incorporates futurism and the wilderness, merging the contrasting elements of organic life and futuristic geometric forms.

The below music video for Ke$ha's "Die Young", is a perfect example of this season's hottest imagery:

...and Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen" video also seems to call upon this trend but with a slightly more discrete approach:

The most featured forms include:

• Space imagery
• Geometric shapes (often triangles)
• Wild animals
• Gem embellishment

SPACE IMAGERY:

www.nasa.gov

GEOMETRIC SHAPES:

WILD ANIMALS:

GEM EMBELLISHED:

Below are just a few places that you can find this trend and buy into it yourself:

TOPSHOP

www.topshop.com

www.topshop.com

FOREVER 21

www.forever21.com/UK

ASOS

www.asos.com

Influences

Influences for this trend can be traced from a myriad of sources:

Photograph: David Sims, Styled by McKenna

The new edition of Philip Utz's menswear biannual Man About Town is The Space Issue. For the new issue, Utz and creative directors Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag of M/M (Paris) pitted the homemade against the futuristic.

"The space theme was chosen because I wanted to break with the retro aesthetic that Man About Town had been championing prior to the Hedi Slimane issue, but also because I felt that it would take the writers, photographers and stylists out of their comfort zone to produce something less self-referential and more thought provoking that what most other men's books have to offer" Utz

The issue has combines unlikely bedfellows such as astrobiologists and stylists, computer programmers and fashion photographers. Further contributors include fashion world heavies Alasdair McLellan, Joe McKenna, Olivier Rizzo, David Sims and Willy Vanderperre.

Icons
Galactic fashion icons:

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Barbarella

David Bowie, Space Oddity

Ellen Ripley, Alien

Princess Leia, Star Wars

Wonder Woman, DC comics