Last updated on April 8th, 2024 at 06:50 am
As a genre, sci-fi is a mint for publishers and film makers. There are so many fabulous sci-fi movies and ways to see them – in the cinema, online with Virgin or in the air with Virgin America – that it is hard to know where to start. Their popularity with geeks has never waned, but the mainstream audience appeal has surged ever since Jane Fonda in ‘Barbarella’ and Sigourney Weaver in ‘Aliens’ which made sci-fi sexy
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Sex sells. There is nothing new there. Canny film makers and their marketers have encouraged costume designers to go for tight fitting, body hugging outfits or cut them down to as little as possible for both the male and female actors. You don’t meet too many dowdy people in space.
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And the marketing penchant for the sci-fi zeitgeist spills over into advertising as well. Despite science fiction being explicitly futuristic, many of the photo shoots have a retro flavour to them, often harking back to the vision and designs of the future from 30 to 50 years ago. Given the state of budget cuts in NASA and other space programs, sadly we don’t see many signs of space-age looks being needed in the too near future.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far away, this sexy shoot profiled Agent Provocateur’s Mission to Earth – New World Order line of lingerie with storylines about a super race of women from planet Voluptura.
Wonder Woman’s cloak of invisibility is working
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Grey magazine add a little bling to sci-fi. Are they triffids on her shoes slowly rising up her body?
Warning – model may have been poured into these trousers
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Jewellery designer Jeanine Romo did a sci-fi steampunk inspired shoot with photographer Charles Song.
Could be a scene from Mission Impossible XXII
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Even musicians and singers get in on the lunar look. Christina Aguilera looks ready to rumble some bad aliens.
Rocket ‘n roll
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Swimwear works well in space for some bizzare reason even though it could be impractical. Kim Kardashian is looking for the sea of tranquility and hoping for a little splash if she can get those boots off.
Kim Kardashian channels Barbarella
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Sometimes there is just a shoot for fun. Photographer Robin Cook must have had a ball (and access to some fab costumes) doing a shoot commemorating arguably the greatest trilogy of them all.
Robin Cook Star Wars photo shoot with slightly creepy faceless figures and Toto
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More Robin Cook photography with a slightly ill-fitting storm trooper costume. If that is the dark side, any wonder Darth Vader turned.
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And then sometimes sci-fi is unfathomable. Shahrukh Khan, Bollywood actor, did some pictures with his children and then tweeted them. Go figure.
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