The Astronauts Wear Prada

7 Jun 2026

Prada unveiled the next stage of its partnership with Axiom Space: the high-performance inner layer of a suit that NASA astronauts will wear to space during the Artemis IV effort.

In 2024, Prada announced the first stage of its partnership with Axiom Space, the space infrastructure development company: the outer layer of a space suit to be worn by NASA astronauts somewhere in the near future. The suit—the technical name of which is Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU)—looked like an augmented version of the kinds of apparel we’ve seen astronauts wear in pictures and movies, except that it also featured the Prada logo and the red rectangular lines of its sportswear brand, Luna Rossa.