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1960s space age3/15/2023 SHOUT OUT: Now this one may sound silly to you, but sometimes I want to shout, for no particular reason, “Maceo!” And I expect a smokin’ sax solo to start playing like the great Godfather of Soul used to do. Face recognition TVs are very helpful to detect immediately when you nod and pause the show and activate the alarm. ![]() WAKE UP TV: I hate it when I’m watching a Netflix series and to my horror wake up and realize that I don’t know where I was when I accidentally crashed. ![]() It’s probably more likely things along the lines of “Uh, can you explain ‘turn signal?’ ” or “Your McLicense should be suspended!” You can say “Hi there!” or “Nice car!” or “Have a nice day!” Especially helpful if your job is Batman.Įxpress your own vehicles: Wouldn’t it be cool to have a voice-activated system in your ride that would translate your words into 24-inch LED red text that appears and scrolls or flashes on the back window and side of your car when driving so you can. If you’re late for work, just slide the pole and take some time off. GETTIN’ DRESSED TIME SAVER: In the 1960’s TV show “Batman,” Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson could change their dynamic duo costumes just by sliding down a pole. However, I was inspired to create some Jetson-like gadgets that I would like to see.ĬARPOOL FILLER: When traffic starts to slow down on your commute, just press a button on your dashboard and holographic images of other people fill your car so you can use carpool lanes. Today there are many Jetsons gizmos and gadgets that are not (yet) a thing, such as flying cars that fold Transformer-style into a suitcase, pneumatic tubes used as elevators and moving sidewalks. These include, but are not limited to: drones, flat screen TVs, jetpacks, robotic vacuums, smart watches, tablet computers and video calls. And only a few, like a “light-up” dress with an LED tube sewn onto the chest, have the daffy futurism of the Cosmocorps.But none of the Bedrock devices, as far as I know, have successfully made the transition from cartoon punchline delivery devices to real-world objects (and wouldn’t a talking head be cool that wooly mammoth vacuum?), but many things in the Jetsons have. None of these ensembles, presented together in a pin-lit gallery meant to evoke a sky full of stars, displays any of the exacting craftsmanship that Issey Miyake or Hussein Chalayan would bring to body-disguising gowns. He is hung up on stretchy fabrics shaped by stiff hoops one dress of black jersey incorporates six parallel rings, spaced out from the waist to the feet, that give it the look of a collapsible laundry hamper. Cardin’s evening gowns are tacky and uncreative. A man’s jumpsuit of teal wool felt features a leather thong worn over the trousers: one part Superman, two parts Tom of Finland.Įspecially when compared to the day wear, most of Mr. Other outfits from the late ’60s are rather less unisex, like a “porthole” dress with cutout nipples. Cardin proposed a sleek, forward-dawning fashion that sometimes dissolved gender distinctions - above all in his “Cosmocorps” collections of the mid-1960s, whose zipped sweaters and belted jumpsuits could be worn by men and women. Like his colleagues André Courrèges and Mary Quant, Mr. Cardin designed in a young, newly prosperous Paris, seen here on mannequins as well as in photographs and films of Jeanne Moreau, Mia Farrow and the cast of “Star Trek.” Some are chic, many are risible all of it has an exuberant view of the future that marks it as decidedly from the past. But its core are the space-age outfits that Mr. With 85 ensembles, the earliest dating from 1953 and the most recent from this decade, “Future Fashion” is not, strictly speaking, another ’60s show. Cardin’s stretchy knits and swooping miniskirts. The Concorde was flying, Françoise Hardy and Joe Dassin were singing and women (and men) cruised the Left Bank in Mr. “ Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion,” now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, offers a swinging reintroduction to Parisian style in the 1960s and 1970s, when the New Look gave way to thigh-high boots and dresses of heat-molded synthetics. ![]() This country had no monopoly on grooviness. ![]() But well beyond our borders, before the 1973 oil crisis tanked the global economy, other countries were partying and protesting just as hard, and a youth culture of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll spanned the globe. It seems Americans can’t get enough of the era, and the optimism that percolated amid great social upheaval. and Neil Armstrong, Woodstock and the Manson murders. Our museums, movies and magazines have been on a yearslong binge of ’60s nostalgia, pegged to a rolling sequence of 50th anniversaries: the Rev.
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