When Katy Perry and the all-woman crew of Blue Origin’s subsequent astronaut launch raise off on Monday, they will launch in type. Actually.
Lauren Sánchez, the journalist and writer who organized the flight (she’s additionally fiancee of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos), recruited designer Monse to reimagine Blue Origin’s flight fits.
“I feel the fits are elegant, however in addition they convey a bit of spice to house,” Sánchez instructed the New York Occasions. Perry and Sanchez will launch on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket on Monday (April 14) together with “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King, bioastronautics analysis scientist and activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and movie producer Kerianne Flynn.
Blue Origin’s polyester flights fits are blue with some black highlights across the knees, elbows, shoulders and torso.
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The Monse Blue Origin flight fits are sleeker and made from “flame-resistant stretch neoprene,” per the Occasions. They dispose of shoulder pads and black highlights on the legs and arms. They have been designed by Monse co-founders Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, who designed her 2024 Met Gala outfit, in accordance to the Occasions. Blue Origin shared a crew picture within the fits on April 12.
“Simplicity was necessary, and luxury, and match,” Garcia instructed the Occasions. “However we additionally needed one thing that was a bit of harmful, like a motocross outfit. Or a ski swimsuit. Flattering and horny.”
King reportedly mentioned the fits have been “skilled and female on the identical time,” in line with the Occasions.
Blue Origin’s all-female crew will fly from the West Texas Launch Website One at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) on Monday. You possibly can watch the Blue Origin all-female crew launch on Area.com, courtesy of Blue Origin, at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT).
