30 years into the future, what are the clothes that will populate our daily lives?
Back in 1995, a cult favourite rom-com movie, Clueless, saw the fashion-savvy protagonist, Cher Horowitz, pick out her daily school outfit on a software that digitally changed outfits on her picture. For many of us, thinking of futuristic fashion also brings to mind sci-fi movies, androids and metallic, geometric designs in cold industrial cityscapes – not to mention, fire-proof, rip-proof, bulletproof clothing designed for superheroes in movies such as Incredibles. It certainly has one wondering if such options may be available for us to buy one day.
That reality has inched closer to us. For trends about fashion from the future, Gulf News speaks to famed celebrity fashion designer, Julien MacDonald OBE, previously chief designer at Givenchy, whose atelier has regularly dressed the likes of Beyonce, JLo, Shakira and the Kardashians. We also met with Fahed Ghanim, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Lifestyle about where fashion is heading in the UAE. They spoke to Gulf News as part of the Future of Fashion panel at the UK Pavilion, at Dubai Expo 2020.
