I explored the possibilities offered by stereoscopic aerial photography a while back and, in a previous post, I also highlighted how interesting it would have been to maybe take inspiration from the Hubble discoveries using the pictures taken by the space telescope to develop new colour combinations and prints.
Well, Emanuel Ungaro seems to have mixed the two ideas in the Spring/Summer 2012 collection.
The house hasn’t been enjoying great times in the last few years: Giles Deacon, who followed a long string of designers including Lindsay Lohan (erm, that's heresy actually calling her a designer...), Estrella Archs and Peter Dundas, left the house a few weeks ago, passing his vacant seat to Jeanne Labib-Lamour.
From a strictly sartorial point of view the new collection definitely didn’t bring any huge changes or shakes to the house since it mainly featured wearable asymmetrical dresses, jumpsuits and trousers at times matched with peplum jackets, yet the vibrant prints employed were very eye-catching since they were inspired by NASA aerial images.
While the first looks in deep ocean blue called to mind the ASTER image of the carbonate sand dunes in the shallow waters of Tarpum Bay, Bahamas, the outfits in bright blue and orange-y reds, actually reminded of Venus' clouds patterns varying over time during the venusian day or the image of saturn's strange hexagon.
The latter is a nighttime view of Saturn's north pole showing a six-sided hexagon feature encircling the entire north pole taken with a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the Cassini-Huygens mission.
If this was the image referred in Ungaro's collection, the red colour would indicate Saturn's 5-micron wavelength radiation, or heat, generated in the warm interior of Saturn that escapes the planet.
The bluish colour shows instead sunlight striking the edge of the planet, indicating that the entire north pole is under the nighttime conditions characteristic of polar winter, as on Earth.
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