“Barbarella” is a crazy, campy, 1968 sexploation cult film. It was used as a sex symbol vehicle for Jane Fonda and directed by her then husband Roger Vadim. It’s a truly wild film that could be quickly described as a 41st century sex road trip through SPACE . If you aren’t sold yet, maybe the opening spacesuit strip tease to a bubblegum pop theme song will help? X
Barbarella is completely naive and genuine and sweet. She doesn’t understand “old-fashioned” sex, and she doesn’t wear her sexy outfits to seduce but probably just because she looks fabulous in them.
Designers Paco Rabanne and Jacques Fonteray made all the costumes larger than life. There’s lots of shimmery metals, cutouts, boots and plastics. Every outfit plays with contrasting textures and elements. It falls into the 1960s mod space age style but amplifies it. Quick history on space age style here
We’re lucky enough that that there was promotional shoots of Jane Fonda in all eight of her “Barbarella” costumes, which can be seen in full here
So of course these are one of a kind creations and they’re too over the top to find anything incredibly similar but I found some pieces that fit that “1960s futuristic space babe vibe”
Vinyl- X
Onscreen Outfits 