Hubble inspired fashion

In sharing the existence of gaystronomer with my friend Maggie at Goddard, the new spring 2011 collection of designer Christopher Kane was brought to my attention (check out the Style magazine summary here: Christopher Kane Spring 2011 collection).  Kane has used HST images of nebulae as the basis for bold new prints, which he has fashioned into a veritable Hubble sequence of dresses and separates.  While a few of the pieces are stunning, I'm not sure all of them work.  In particular, the outfits with solid black components remind me a bit of zooming out too far in ds9 - oops, no more image!  However, I do find this collection exciting for another reason - Kane is a fellow Glaswegian.  In fact, he is about my age, and I actually knew a guy called Chris Kane in high school - I wonder if he is the one and the same?

Anyway, enjoy the beautiful clothes, and keep them in mind as you get your new WFC3, Chandra or Spitzer images in your inbox!  All that hard work proposal writing may not get you the scientific results you had hoped for, but it might grace the runway at London Fashion Week!