Urgent astronaut dialog interspersed with Quindar tones created an unsettling atmosphere ahead of Christopher Raeburn’s spring show, which referenced the 1971 sci-fi film “THX 1138,” the debut effort for “Star Wars” director George Lucas.
The show riffed on space travel, opening with gleaming white parkas and shorts in Tyvek, a tear-resistant, paperlike fabric used to protect buildings during construction. Some of the coats were festooned with zippered pouches that resembled shrink-wrapped food packets, and were made from fire- and water-resistant Nomex, a fabric Raeburn rescued from dead stock.
But the cosmic theme quickly got thrown out of the airlock and the show settled into a parade of fine yet unremarkable sweatshirts and shorts for him and her, detailed with science-class doodling or bands of grosgrain.
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Of more interest was the technical outerwear — striking in iridescent teal nylon or parachute material — and the depth of Raeburn’s commitment to sustainable fashions. The dustbins at the exit bore the same refrains as the sweatshirts: Remade, Reused, Recycled.