Designers are Already Making Clothes for an Increasingly Hostile Future

What do you wear to an apocalypse? 

It’s a hard thing to dress for, due in no small part to the fact that no one really knows when or how the world will end. There are a handful of leading doomsday scenarios, of course—climate disaster; nuclear war; a global pandemic—that have started to feel particularly portentous in the past 12 to 18 months. But as life on Earth becomes more extreme and inhospitable, and people look to the possibility of colonising other planets and moons, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to say what the next 40, 50 or 100 years might look like; or how we might have to adapt our clothing to better suit these future scenarios.

And yet there are a very…