Lunarcore is too good a word to give up, and I think it's useful to have words to describe a vibe even if there isn't really a dedicated scene for it. For example, this video just taught me that what I've started chasing during my techwear journey is called lunarcore, and having a term for it is kind of a good confidence boost and helps me find it more readily.
Same, I like some of the stuff Hamcus puts out, a mix of luna/work/war core all merged into one.. space miner? check! Stardust analyst? check. I got some Hamcus coming in mail and Im stoked on it. I always just said, I like "techwear" but I wish there was a more space scene for it.. now I know there is.
Same. Mine's called mechcore (basically just wanting to look like a spaceship mechanic) which is just lunarcore but not as light and and shiny.I loved the vibe hamcus was going for.
Lunar core gang 🚀 so happy to see my fav and personal aesthetic get a spotlight on here. As someone absolutely obsessed with the work of hajime sorayama, star trek, star wars. I'm glad that you made the distinction that it is a lot more retro sci-fi based. I think sony was the top of interior design/ device Inspo (Sony dream machine owner here).
@@503punxoioioi9 clear difference between flip flops and slides: flip flops have a little bit of plastic between the big toe and the one next to it, slides don't
Yo, this hits home! I call it "Frost Core". The name comes from the effect of frosted glass effect, which gives me this kind of feeling, when all the contrast is blurred, and it used a lot of times in semi transparent plastic. The aesthetic i was always into growing up was something between Metal Gear Solid, & Ghost In the Shell and Clean core, y2k. But I have to mention one of the main futurists and with huge influence - legendary illustrator Möebius. He was the mastermind behind the looks of the crew and spaceship of the original Alien and was a big influence on Kubrick. Also the off white and greyscale colours of plastic are associated with futrism and postmodernist designs of 70s and 80s, where plastic was the tool to make designers visions of growing cutting edge technologic era (now we have similar boom with default colours of 3d print) But I would call it this is more of frostcore, it sounds more edgy to me, as I see most of the designs are more aggressive than particularly Lunar aesthetic of the 60s. Everyone with their own tags, that's why it doesn't get much views haha .Thanks for the video! Subbed
I totally get you - appreciate the detailed comment 🙏 I think that very particular era of 1980s plastic tech products is super cool and went totally underrated for a long time. Glad you like them!
1:52 Moon (2009) is soooo good. It’s actually directed by David Bowie’s son 🌝 This is my favorite video of yours yet, I’m just a gal who’s been into eclectic fashion for a few decades, I appreciate how deep you dug for this one !
Yes! I watched it a few years ago. Great example of how you don't need an enormous budget and loads of explosions to make a compelling sci-fi film. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏
Lunarcore looks, and to a lesser extent cyberpunk, were what drew me to techwear in the first place. I do hope people in the techwear sphere continue to experiment with these even more niche aesthetics instead of just wearing the usual uniform. I like the term lunarcore and it can be a useful tool for finding inspiration but I prefer the creativity we see when these sort of looks are put together by people outside of a small group.
I couldve sworn I remembered Lunarcore being explored heavily (relatively, for a subgenre of techwear) during the covid era. I figured it died down since because people can touch grass again but damn thats crazy that even IG only has 500 results for it.
Lunar core is def a cool sounding term. The genre is almost bridging the gap between clothing your regularly wear and costumes you only see on high budget productions. It would be interesting to see thinner translucent materials being incorporated for layering in hotter temperatures. Especially if hiking where you don't want heavy materials but require protection from the sun.
I wanted to build a lunarcore wardrobe last year and binged all your videos! Thanks for being a great source of information and encouragement. So excited to watch this one.
I copped Palladiums baggys as my go to boots for years straight just because of the brainworms I got from initial /fa/ threads like half a decade ago. Great to see someone talk about in a non dismissive tone. Definitely felt like some people were trying a bit too hard to make it stick back in the day though.
I‘m obsessed with this aesthetic as I had IG pages about solarpunk and retro futurism. I think it’s not popular because it looks more like a cosplay and in comparison to techwar the colours are harder to pull off. I would always choose monochrome black over white as I don’t want to look like jeremy fragrance.
Antwon out here spilling the lunar beans! My own personal style brand has been “lunar gorp larper” since 2019 - largely thanks to this channel - so I’m having lots of feels to see this video in 2023
Just found your page not so long ago, and boy am I glad. Pretty unique page with tons of knowledge and different perspective. Not the biggest into fashion, but am looking to find my own style to express myself. Keep it up. Love the editing and distinct humor
Spacefox is a French clothing brand genuinely based on space missions, and space in general. Neither shiny (except 1 reflective bomber jacket) nor too expensive, you can definitely see the inspiration. PS : i love the term LunarCore. Hope it gets out there more
Lunarcore is the only niche fashion aesthetic that matters 😌 idrc what it's called but lunarcore is such a fun word. It would be nice to have a community of people who talked specifically about it I guess but regardless of what other ppl call it, I'm still gonna dress up like a nerd n wear silly space inspired stuff and things with nasa logos on them. Like you mentioned it's not really hard to look for inspo/clothing that fits the bill, but you do have to know what you're looking for, and it would be cool to see more people into it.
Man it's awesome to see someone else talking about Lunarcore! A friend and myself never sported the look, but we really loved the idea of it back when it was first presented by Poet on /fa. Such a cool conceptual aesthetic with a unique spin that I think fits nicely with the proliferation of cyberpunk fashion right now. Hopefully this video sparks new interest and brings in even more influences.
I love lunarcore. I had never coined the term before but had always been drawn to this aesthetic. It definitely feels slightly harder to pull off though.
I knew about Lunarcore for quite some time. Was in the market to get some baggy white luna style pants recently and I was just amazed at how little came up googling Lunarcore to the point where I was questioning myself if I was even using the right terminology. Thanks for this video Ant! Lunarcore is just great IMO :D
well, the misspelling might be the problem when trying to find it. i wouldn't normally point out typos as it's a douchey thing to do, but you misspelled it three times. it's lunaRcore, not lunacore. hope that helps broaden your search a bit. but you're right, there's just not a lot of info on it available as a lot of the original 4chan /fa/ threads have been deleted or the servers hosting the archives have lost all the photos.
@@riotkindlejack palladiums pampa hi's are a good place to start if you're looking for that retro lunarcore aesthetic, or if you're looking for something a little more more modern that ACW x converse collab looks really cool (if you can still find them at a reasonable price, ofc)
@@johnlewtas6833 I ended up getting both of those! Plus some Y-3 Qasa High for a warmer grey. I love Palladiums so much. Still looking for something like the Nike SFB Field 2 in sage...
@@johnlewtas6833 oh shit is is yeah certainly one of the factors why so little came up haha. But I remember trying every possible way to spell it since I just couldn't remember how to and even if the word was a thing at all haha
I unintentionally got into Lunarcore through a pair of ASRV tech joggers in ice blue/white and Nike React Element 87s. Excited to hear your coverage on this one-off genre!!
love the video. brings me back to my days on /fa/ (not my best days, but saw some cool stuff). one aesthetic that came and went within a month or two was jewelwave (or jewelcore) and i was absolutely obsessed with it. for the longest time i would only get things in jewelwave colors (dark reds, navy, wheat, emeralds and burnt orange tones) long after it died. there's no new discussions on the subject these days, but i would love to see a video that goes back and revisits some of the trends that died unceremonious deaths, prior to our current conception of fast fashion and microtrends.
Sometimes we have to go to the depths of humanity to see the light on the other side. I never came across jewelwave but that sounds interesting, will have to see if I can find anything on it
@@ThisIsAntwon yeah i did a bit of googling and the best i can find anymore is an inspo thread on reddit from 2015 and a few archived /fa/ threads. if you can find anything more substantial i'd be shocked. i guess one of the main reasons it bit the dust quickly is because it lacked real cohesion in terms of texture, material, silhouette, pattern. the only unifying aesthetic was the color. some people just adopted the color palette into retro/ normcore fits, others went all out with corduroy and other velour/plush materials with some kind of sheen to really play into the "jewel" part of the name. anyway, love the new direction the videos are taking. keep up the quality content!
I actually laughed out loud at the T-pose character select MP4. Great video! I think lunacore can have it's day - there's not only the futuristic stuff inspired by the hayday of NASA but also the more gritty street / workwear aesthetic of the Alien series. Something for everyone.
This is my favorite video - your channel is awesome and I’m probably going to spend some time just reading the comments because each one is expands on lunar core. As one poster said, it is too good not to use - the name suggests what influences it, one can’t help but see international orange or NASA white.
Great video, Antwon, content as well as all those editing touches. 😘👌 Lunacore as a term is so wonderfully snappy, but at the same time I'm afraid people might be a little over the whole "core" addendum - maybe that's why it never took of completely. I also think it's exactly what you said: there's so much influence from Sci-Fi, retrofuturism and space age in fashion that this aesthetic is kind of everywhere, just as fashion is full of references to military clothing. Lunarcore is pretty close to what I consider my personal style in the widest sense, though, even though I lean more towards grey and black tones, and for myself I simply referred to it as "retrofuturistic minimalism", even if it might be already crossing the border into grey man techwear territory. The fact that the style cues from this direction work in so many different ways for so many different people with different aesthetics keeps the idea wonderfully open and allows for much more custom styling than the cursed AliExpress techwear which kind of dictates looking like a cyberpunk ninja. Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here without any sources, Lunarcore in the widest sense is already normal to most of us, because we're living in a version of the future the past imagined, albeit it a combination of a multitude of ideas from back then, and maybe that's why we don't necessarily need a label for it. We rely on satellites for everyday applications like navigation and even just running apps that track speed and distance, handheld smart devices are an entirely ordinary part of our collective experience, and commercial space travel is just around the corner. It'd only be logical if the various versions of everyday fashion reflected that. Btw, I think a brand that always heavily leans towards this aesthetic and its inspirations is Yixi Chen's C2H4, which even had a collection called "Zero Gravity" in S/S 2018 (not a single legit space suit anywhere, though). It was perfect for anyone like me trying to look like a co-pilot in a mid Sci-Fi show that was cancelled after one season. From what little discourse there is about this brand online, some people seem to disregard it as an amalgamation of Cav Empt and parts of Undercover - wrongly, imo. For me Yixi Chen imagines how clothing could look like in a rather close future that doesn't even question anymore how far it developed. Kind of where we are today.
OMG, Antwat, Where does your Intergalactic Fashionista Hyper Neural God-like insight come from? It Blows my mind! Your video took me into another Dimension of Time and Luarcore fashion space!, I don't know how I can live amongst mere mortal Earthlings now, knowing what I now know, Aahaha! Great video keep up the Great work, Peace Lunardork😋
I like the post-core environment more because it steers away from fad shopping. I think the term belongs in archives with gothninja and their cousins, fashion is much more interesting when it blends and morphs organically. Maybe I'm just jaded and can't let go of the early hype beast correlation because they co-existed at the same time.
Man what a blast from the past! Lunarcore was pretty interesting and there were some cool looking outfits, I like it better than techwear or goth ninja but my budget was (and still is lol) so little that i could only get me some stuff to ride the palewave
and for those who say this has an element of cosplay or fantasy to it - yes. but here's the secret - its all cosplay and fantasy on some level. every outfit plays a character. an urban lumberjack or a guy in carhartts that has never driven a forklift in his life. a guy in a savile row suit is trying to project an image of being old english nobility. or being more like a footballer or basketball star by wearing the sneakers or jersey. or cosplaying as a rapper in certain streetwear. most people wearing skate clothes never touch a skateboard. the fantasy of a given outfit is a big part of it. even techwear you are cosplaying a cyberpunk ninja hacker. better to embrace it and work with it rather than deny it
honestly I'm willing to give lunarcore some love, it's an interesting style simple yet still stands out on its own, might be fun to see what I can pull together using only my own current wardrobe see what happens.
Thanks for posting this when I found out about lunarcore I thought it was a really cool genre of fashion and was incredibly disappointed in how unpopular it was .
I dont know if its still happening, but at Star Wars Galaxies at Disneyworld, a lot of people would wear outfits that are Star Wars-ish without cosplaying a specific famous character, sort of just inventing a space pilot or droid programmer character and inhabiting the world that way. and the official disney cast members would treat you differently and play along with you. its sort of LARPy but also fun. I want to do it some day and am always looking for specific pieces that look like they could fit in the star wars universe but aren't specifically branded that way. basic military jackets, boots, utility belts, etc. and lunar core is definitely part of that vibe
Regarding those Yume Yume Cloud Walker boots, how would you say they fit? A bit tight, a bit big, true to size? I liked the look of them and your video and want to give them a try but I'm only seeing options for a half size too small or a size and a half too large.
Really dig lunarcore. Less extreme than techwear but still striking enough. I love the Geo Forma boots and it's leading me towards lunarcore without knowing lol. Before this video I thought of this aesthetic as "dystopian fashion" 😂
Ah, finally I have piece. Original Lunar force 1s :D I really love the Lunarcore name and look. I don't go full space cosplay due to lack of sizes in everything, but I like wearing NASA/ESA stuff, bombers with mission badges, NASA hoodies, backpacks with space stuff/stickers etc. as a huge space exploration and sci-fi fan. Just built a space-inspired Keychron V10 ergo keyboard with Drop+MiTo Godspeed ARES keycaps.
Mid seventies, I was a kid. I had three inch.platform soled sneakers in shiny silver called "moon shoes." I had a shiny silver astronaut sport coat too. That's the extent of my foray into space fashion but it was pretty popular for awhile after the moon landing. I watched that on tv, live! We were all pretty excited.
I remember trying to get into this! I couldn’t find any clothes that would fit into it. And I live in a hot humid climate with mild winters. Also check out the music video for the Gundam seed insert song Zips by tm revolution. Nishikawa’s outfit was definitely gundam pilot/ lunar core
I’ve seen this look pulled off absolutely incredibly well but it usually falls flat most of the time, Chaz’s music video 50-50 by Toro Y Moi is a great example of lunar core being pulled off absolutely beautifuly, was obsessed with his fit for months.
I can’t remember if you mentioned it during the video, but one of my favourite lunarcore pieces is the ROSEN-X Aether Jumpsuit. It’s such a unique garment imo and it has a super cool space engineer look.
Really interesting video, I think maybe a lot of people who were initially inspired by lunarcore posts might have shifted to create their own niche styles? I know for me those posts were great inspiration for what I wear now, basically star wars extracore... Or if you've seen the movie "Prospect"... Or maybe like if you made an Ewok live in a wealthy apartment in blade runner universe. Love the videos.
You have no idea how much I'd love seeing people walk around in looks like this. I wanna see inspiration from everywhere, and for it to be so common that even insecure people wouldn't feel weird walking around like that. It's indeed a shame, though, even with the means, it's too much effort for most to go for such a particular style, probably even goes for the majority of those who are interested. It'd take quite the revolution for niches to be attainable enough for them not to get stuck in a negative feedback loop.
its such a difference depending on what city youre in. in my city things are so absolutely ironclad conservative. people wear black, grey, blue, or brown outfits. hoodies and parkas. jeans, and dark shoes. if you wear anything interesting or with any kind of color you get funny looks. i can count on one hand the people i've seen wearing like.. jordans. its a little depressing, ngl. i envy the people that live in cities where you can actually wear clothing outside the norm. i lived in NYC and you could wear a pink bunny suit on the subway and nobody would bat an eyelash
@@garyburke6156 Definitely, I've gotten some weird looks myself, living in a small town where most people probably still had a fur a few generations ago
A zero gravity look book would be interesting, especially if considerations for actually living in zero G are given. Removing loops and stuff to prevent catching on things all the time, some booties or minimalist footwear trying to keep from damaging things or people. I really like function in my stuff
As a casual Lunacore observer I was really confused when you mentioned it’s not a well known term. But then I went and searched the # on Insta and there’s barely any posts! 😂 I thought this was a well known term RIP. Hope the word catches soon because I love the aesthetic.
Out of all things too be inspired by, SPACE is such a vibe. Lunar core would make the most sense if we as humans actually went the route of space exploration and such things that we thought was going to happen in the early 2000s but wars and other things got in the way of that... lunar to me is not so anime fiction or avatar alien, but human elements + tech and function. Maybe one day nasa hit us with the runway show wit all type of advance tech garments LOL
It's just a bloody awful name for such amazing aesthetic. I definitely dabble and mix in lunacore piece with my tech stuff. I think Guerilla Group have been pivoting away from straight up tech wear into more space inspired looks for a few years now. I have a jacket from the FW 2018 collection, that just screams Alien ship worker, from the cut to the texture of fabrics and the silver dyneema hood. I am not a fan of the all white/silver look but I love the scope of fabric texture this look has scope for. Great vid!
I'm kind of accidentally lunar core, but think "camo into the dark of space" kind of branch. I use a lot of oil slick, black on black, heavy retro futurism, black reflective materials, and spots of bright reds and oranges. It's been compared to trying to dress like a black hole by friends. Lol
Looking up lunarcore and finding illustrations of the internal structure of the moon (literal lunarcore) ironically the same palette as the fashion genre
FINALLY Lunarcore gets some love. 🌑🌑🌑
It's spelled Lunacore
@@leoschautvideos 🤓☝
Lunarcore is too good a word to give up, and I think it's useful to have words to describe a vibe even if there isn't really a dedicated scene for it. For example, this video just taught me that what I've started chasing during my techwear journey is called lunarcore, and having a term for it is kind of a good confidence boost and helps me find it more readily.
It helped me a lot too! I'd had this one jacket for 20 years and didn't know what to wear it with but I just knew I loved it and wanted more.
Same, I like some of the stuff Hamcus puts out, a mix of luna/work/war core all merged into one.. space miner? check! Stardust analyst? check. I got some Hamcus coming in mail and Im stoked on it. I always just said, I like "techwear" but I wish there was a more space scene for it.. now I know there is.
Same. Mine's called mechcore (basically just wanting to look like a spaceship mechanic) which is just lunarcore but not as light and and shiny.I loved the vibe hamcus was going for.
@@necrotic9433 yea you get it. I have a dark purple hamcus fit for that vibe, and a solid white hamcus fit I got for lunar core vibe. Shits so dope
Totally agree - the word is perfect because one immediately thinks of NASA White and International Orange.
Genuinely one the most DOWN TO EARTH and least ALIENating fashion creators, we are very lucky to have you ❤
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I've loved this look in industrial design. I'm not as much about it in fashion, but tech that gives of those vibes is a favorite
Lunar core gang 🚀 so happy to see my fav and personal aesthetic get a spotlight on here. As someone absolutely obsessed with the work of hajime sorayama, star trek, star wars. I'm glad that you made the distinction that it is a lot more retro sci-fi based. I think sony was the top of interior design/ device Inspo (Sony dream machine owner here).
It used to be people had a "style". Now they have "aesthetic". Ugh. It's like people calling flip-flops "slides" 🙄
@@503punxoioioi9flip-flops aren't slides tho??? They're thongs, if anything.
@@503punxoioioi9 clear difference between flip flops and slides: flip flops have a little bit of plastic between the big toe and the one next to it, slides don't
Yo, this hits home! I call it "Frost Core". The name comes from the effect of frosted glass effect, which gives me this kind of feeling, when all the contrast is blurred, and it used a lot of times in semi transparent plastic. The aesthetic i was always into growing up was something between Metal Gear Solid, & Ghost In the Shell and Clean core, y2k. But I have to mention one of the main futurists and with huge influence - legendary illustrator Möebius. He was the mastermind behind the looks of the crew and spaceship of the original Alien and was a big influence on Kubrick. Also the off white and greyscale colours of plastic are associated with futrism and postmodernist designs of 70s and 80s, where plastic was the tool to make designers visions of growing cutting edge technologic era (now we have similar boom with default colours of 3d print) But I would call it this is more of frostcore, it sounds more edgy to me, as I see most of the designs are more aggressive than particularly Lunar aesthetic of the 60s. Everyone with their own tags, that's why it doesn't get much views haha .Thanks for the video! Subbed
I totally get you - appreciate the detailed comment 🙏 I think that very particular era of 1980s plastic tech products is super cool and went totally underrated for a long time. Glad you like them!
1:52 Moon (2009) is soooo good. It’s actually directed by David Bowie’s son 🌝
This is my favorite video of yours yet, I’m just a gal who’s been into eclectic fashion for a few decades, I appreciate how deep you dug for this one !
Yes! I watched it a few years ago. Great example of how you don't need an enormous budget and loads of explosions to make a compelling sci-fi film. Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏
Seeing this vid took me back to my /fa/ days, how time flies
Lunarcore looks, and to a lesser extent cyberpunk, were what drew me to techwear in the first place. I do hope people in the techwear sphere continue to experiment with these even more niche aesthetics instead of just wearing the usual uniform. I like the term lunarcore and it can be a useful tool for finding inspiration but I prefer the creativity we see when these sort of looks are put together by people outside of a small group.
I couldve sworn I remembered Lunarcore being explored heavily (relatively, for a subgenre of techwear) during the covid era. I figured it died down since because people can touch grass again but damn thats crazy that even IG only has 500 results for it.
Hopefully this sheds some light on the style and we can start to see it evolve more this year 🙏🏿 🔥
Ayy thanks for the comment! Agreed, would love to see more people giving it a go
Glad to see Im not the only one who likes the armor under the jeans, underrated combo fr 🙏🙏
Lunar core is def a cool sounding term. The genre is almost bridging the gap between clothing your regularly wear and costumes you only see on high budget productions. It would be interesting to see thinner translucent materials being incorporated for layering in hotter temperatures. Especially if hiking where you don't want heavy materials but require protection from the sun.
I remember a few years ago Corbin posted a lunarcore fit that got me into the aesthetic
Oh so that explains my love of the Nike mars yard overshoes, techwear, and retro styling..neat
the chronically online are so predictably unsurprising
I wanted to build a lunarcore wardrobe last year and binged all your videos! Thanks for being a great source of information and encouragement.
So excited to watch this one.
Oh and I'm now pretty happy with a lot of the looks and I wear them to the grocery store with pride.
I copped Palladiums baggys as my go to boots for years straight just because of the brainworms I got from initial /fa/ threads like half a decade ago. Great to see someone talk about in a non dismissive tone. Definitely felt like some people were trying a bit too hard to make it stick back in the day though.
Lunarcore was always dope. I used to have a few lunarcore outfits. Love the pallette.
i love lunarcore so much, glad to see it getting air time!
I‘m obsessed with this aesthetic as I had IG pages about solarpunk and retro futurism. I think it’s not popular because it looks more like a cosplay and in comparison to techwar the colours are harder to pull off. I would always choose monochrome black over white as I don’t want to look like jeremy fragrance.
2:45 I want that backpack!
Love Lunarcore, and i’m for sure loving it because of all the space anime i watched as a kid. Thanks Antwon, for breaking it down once again!
Another great source of inspo!
Antwon out here spilling the lunar beans!
My own personal style brand has been “lunar gorp larper” since 2019 - largely thanks to this channel - so I’m having lots of feels to see this video in 2023
Family dinner
- Look, here comes the astronaut, how's the galaxy son?
- It's called Lunarcore mom!!
Definitely going to go ahead and try some more brigther, earthy colors! White, beige etc. Thanks for this vid Ant!
Just found your page not so long ago, and boy am I glad. Pretty unique page with tons of knowledge and different perspective. Not the biggest into fashion, but am looking to find my own style to express myself. Keep it up. Love the editing and distinct humor
Spacefox is a French clothing brand genuinely based on space missions, and space in general. Neither shiny (except 1 reflective bomber jacket) nor too expensive, you can definitely see the inspiration.
PS : i love the term LunarCore. Hope it gets out there more
Lunarcore is the only niche fashion aesthetic that matters 😌 idrc what it's called but lunarcore is such a fun word. It would be nice to have a community of people who talked specifically about it I guess but regardless of what other ppl call it, I'm still gonna dress up like a nerd n wear silly space inspired stuff and things with nasa logos on them. Like you mentioned it's not really hard to look for inspo/clothing that fits the bill, but you do have to know what you're looking for, and it would be cool to see more people into it.
Man it's awesome to see someone else talking about Lunarcore! A friend and myself never sported the look, but we really loved the idea of it back when it was first presented by Poet on /fa. Such a cool conceptual aesthetic with a unique spin that I think fits nicely with the proliferation of cyberpunk fashion right now. Hopefully this video sparks new interest and brings in even more influences.
I feel like I basically requested this video; thank you VERY much, man
I love lunarcore. I had never coined the term before but had always been drawn to this aesthetic. It definitely feels slightly harder to pull off though.
I knew about Lunarcore for quite some time. Was in the market to get some baggy white luna style pants recently and I was just amazed at how little came up googling Lunarcore to the point where I was questioning myself if I was even using the right terminology. Thanks for this video Ant! Lunarcore is just great IMO :D
well, the misspelling might be the problem when trying to find it. i wouldn't normally point out typos as it's a douchey thing to do, but you misspelled it three times. it's lunaRcore, not lunacore. hope that helps broaden your search a bit.
but you're right, there's just not a lot of info on it available as a lot of the original 4chan /fa/ threads have been deleted or the servers hosting the archives have lost all the photos.
Searching for grey shoes has been really tough.
@@riotkindlejack palladiums pampa hi's are a good place to start if you're looking for that retro lunarcore aesthetic, or if you're looking for something a little more more modern that ACW x converse collab looks really cool (if you can still find them at a reasonable price, ofc)
@@johnlewtas6833 I ended up getting both of those! Plus some Y-3 Qasa High for a warmer grey. I love Palladiums so much. Still looking for something like the Nike SFB Field 2 in sage...
@@johnlewtas6833 oh shit is is yeah certainly one of the factors why so little came up haha. But I remember trying every possible way to spell it since I just couldn't remember how to and even if the word was a thing at all haha
Youve no idea how long I've waited for you make a lunarcore video🙌🏽
I unintentionally got into Lunarcore through a pair of ASRV tech joggers in ice blue/white and Nike React Element 87s.
Excited to hear your coverage on this one-off genre!!
Ah yeah the Element 87 was quite cool, definitely space-age vibes
love the video. brings me back to my days on /fa/ (not my best days, but saw some cool stuff). one aesthetic that came and went within a month or two was jewelwave (or jewelcore) and i was absolutely obsessed with it. for the longest time i would only get things in jewelwave colors (dark reds, navy, wheat, emeralds and burnt orange tones) long after it died. there's no new discussions on the subject these days, but i would love to see a video that goes back and revisits some of the trends that died unceremonious deaths, prior to our current conception of fast fashion and microtrends.
Sometimes we have to go to the depths of humanity to see the light on the other side. I never came across jewelwave but that sounds interesting, will have to see if I can find anything on it
@@ThisIsAntwon yeah i did a bit of googling and the best i can find anymore is an inspo thread on reddit from 2015 and a few archived /fa/ threads. if you can find anything more substantial i'd be shocked. i guess one of the main reasons it bit the dust quickly is because it lacked real cohesion in terms of texture, material, silhouette, pattern. the only unifying aesthetic was the color. some people just adopted the color palette into retro/ normcore fits, others went all out with corduroy and other velour/plush materials with some kind of sheen to really play into the "jewel" part of the name.
anyway, love the new direction the videos are taking. keep up the quality content!
I actually laughed out loud at the T-pose character select MP4. Great video! I think lunacore can have it's day - there's not only the futuristic stuff inspired by the hayday of NASA but also the more gritty street / workwear aesthetic of the Alien series. Something for everyone.
I like to look at techwear as dystopian and lunar core as utopian, i love both aesthetics
This is my favorite video - your channel is awesome and I’m probably going to spend some time just reading the comments because each one is expands on lunar core. As one poster said, it is too good not to use - the name suggests what influences it, one can’t help but see international orange or NASA white.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it
Great video, Antwon, content as well as all those editing touches. 😘👌
Lunacore as a term is so wonderfully snappy, but at the same time I'm afraid people might be a little over the whole "core" addendum - maybe that's why it never took of completely. I also think it's exactly what you said: there's so much influence from Sci-Fi, retrofuturism and space age in fashion that this aesthetic is kind of everywhere, just as fashion is full of references to military clothing.
Lunarcore is pretty close to what I consider my personal style in the widest sense, though, even though I lean more towards grey and black tones, and for myself I simply referred to it as "retrofuturistic minimalism", even if it might be already crossing the border into grey man techwear territory. The fact that the style cues from this direction work in so many different ways for so many different people with different aesthetics keeps the idea wonderfully open and allows for much more custom styling than the cursed AliExpress techwear which kind of dictates looking like a cyberpunk ninja.
Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here without any sources, Lunarcore in the widest sense is already normal to most of us, because we're living in a version of the future the past imagined, albeit it a combination of a multitude of ideas from back then, and maybe that's why we don't necessarily need a label for it. We rely on satellites for everyday applications like navigation and even just running apps that track speed and distance, handheld smart devices are an entirely ordinary part of our collective experience, and commercial space travel is just around the corner. It'd only be logical if the various versions of everyday fashion reflected that.
Btw, I think a brand that always heavily leans towards this aesthetic and its inspirations is Yixi Chen's C2H4, which even had a collection called "Zero Gravity" in S/S 2018 (not a single legit space suit anywhere, though). It was perfect for anyone like me trying to look like a co-pilot in a mid Sci-Fi show that was cancelled after one season. From what little discourse there is about this brand online, some people seem to disregard it as an amalgamation of Cav Empt and parts of Undercover - wrongly, imo. For me Yixi Chen imagines how clothing could look like in a rather close future that doesn't even question anymore how far it developed. Kind of where we are today.
OMG, Antwat, Where does your Intergalactic Fashionista Hyper Neural God-like insight come from? It Blows my mind! Your video took me into another Dimension of Time and Luarcore fashion space!, I don't know how I can live amongst mere mortal Earthlings now, knowing what I now know, Aahaha! Great video keep up the Great work, Peace Lunardork😋
Congratulations on your ascent 👨🚀 you live in the stars now
I like the post-core environment more because it steers away from fad shopping. I think the term belongs in archives with gothninja and their cousins, fashion is much more interesting when it blends and morphs organically. Maybe I'm just jaded and can't let go of the early hype beast correlation because they co-existed at the same time.
Love the vid, can we also have a convo about Solarcore or even Celestialcore coz uhhh, its a major inspo to me.
Man what a blast from the past! Lunarcore was pretty interesting and there were some cool looking outfits, I like it better than techwear or goth ninja but my budget was (and still is lol) so little that i could only get me some stuff to ride the palewave
Really interesting and thought provoking video Ant. Loved it. Your scripts are getting so good!
This has been my fave aesthetic since I saw The Girl from Tomorrow back in the 90s. So glad to see it is gaining traction.
Lunarcore Gang +1, I've been a massive fan of it for a long time and it's nice to see a video on it
That zeta gundam look mighty fine ;)
I know this is random but I love those little tidbits of text in upper right corner of videos
Time to go make my lunar punk wardrobe. This is what my tech minimalist/ classic monochrome wardrobe needed
Love your vids Ant, please keep em coming. This was a fantastic video!
and for those who say this has an element of cosplay or fantasy to it - yes. but here's the secret - its all cosplay and fantasy on some level. every outfit plays a character. an urban lumberjack or a guy in carhartts that has never driven a forklift in his life. a guy in a savile row suit is trying to project an image of being old english nobility. or being more like a footballer or basketball star by wearing the sneakers or jersey. or cosplaying as a rapper in certain streetwear. most people wearing skate clothes never touch a skateboard. the fantasy of a given outfit is a big part of it. even techwear you are cosplaying a cyberpunk ninja hacker. better to embrace it and work with it rather than deny it
I have been trying to get into Lunacore before but I can’t find one with good price or review. Thanks Antwon for this vid!
Yo thanks for the video, never heard of it before...
But now I realize that the Mars range from Vollebak is a good starting point for Lunacore
honestly I'm willing to give lunarcore some love, it's an interesting style simple yet still stands out on its own, might be fun to see what I can pull together using only my own current wardrobe see what happens.
I see a lot of ppl wear this everyday so lunacore is not dead I love it so cool space and moon boots are here to stay I love these videos
we need more of that T-pose animation @ 4:19
Thanks for posting this when I found out about lunarcore I thought it was a really cool genre of fashion and was incredibly disappointed in how unpopular it was .
I dont know if its still happening, but at Star Wars Galaxies at Disneyworld, a lot of people would wear outfits that are Star Wars-ish without cosplaying a specific famous character, sort of just inventing a space pilot or droid programmer character and inhabiting the world that way. and the official disney cast members would treat you differently and play along with you. its sort of LARPy but also fun. I want to do it some day and am always looking for specific pieces that look like they could fit in the star wars universe but aren't specifically branded that way. basic military jackets, boots, utility belts, etc. and lunar core is definitely part of that vibe
Soooo, my white Acronym J1B and white Cortazu snowboarding shell pants I bought for my Iceland trip are technically lunacore? 😅
Regarding those Yume Yume Cloud Walker boots, how would you say they fit? A bit tight, a bit big, true to size?
I liked the look of them and your video and want to give them a try but I'm only seeing options for a half size too small or a size and a half too large.
Really dig lunarcore. Less extreme than techwear but still striking enough. I love the Geo Forma boots and it's leading me towards lunarcore without knowing lol. Before this video I thought of this aesthetic as "dystopian fashion" 😂
Ah, finally I have piece. Original Lunar force 1s :D I really love the Lunarcore name and look. I don't go full space cosplay due to lack of sizes in everything, but I like wearing NASA/ESA stuff, bombers with mission badges, NASA hoodies, backpacks with space stuff/stickers etc. as a huge space exploration and sci-fi fan. Just built a space-inspired Keychron V10 ergo keyboard with Drop+MiTo Godspeed ARES keycaps.
Mid seventies, I was a kid. I had three inch.platform soled sneakers in shiny silver called "moon shoes." I had a shiny silver astronaut sport coat too. That's the extent of my foray into space fashion but it was pretty popular for awhile after the moon landing. I watched that on tv, live! We were all pretty excited.
I remember trying to get into this! I couldn’t find any clothes that would fit into it. And I live in a hot humid climate with mild winters. Also check out the music video for the Gundam seed insert song Zips by tm revolution. Nishikawa’s outfit was definitely gundam pilot/ lunar core
Yup, first time hearing it here! Now lunarcore going to the moon! 📈🚀🌑
just copped mmw zoom 4s 😩 LUNARCORE IS SO AWSOSME
This video is out of this world
Antwon. Your perspective makes me smileX3
I aim to please
I didn't know this core, I love it
God damn this video made me miss my nasa x Vans hi tops
Love Lunarcore and Dunecore aswell.
I’ve seen this look pulled off absolutely incredibly well but it usually falls flat most of the time, Chaz’s music video 50-50 by Toro Y Moi is a great example of lunar core being pulled off absolutely beautifuly, was obsessed with his fit for months.
I can’t remember if you mentioned it during the video, but one of my favourite lunarcore pieces is the ROSEN-X Aether Jumpsuit. It’s such a unique garment imo and it has a super cool space engineer look.
🍩 forget about Krakatau 🌋 and ACG Olympic line 🌚
old y-3 had this energy and i've been eating up all the cool shit on grailed for the past 2 years. cool video!
This video feels so much more relevant with the Prada NASA collab
Been rocking lunar core since senior year of college 2018. Grab a pair of gray paladium boots as a starter
Really interesting video, I think maybe a lot of people who were initially inspired by lunarcore posts might have shifted to create their own niche styles?
I know for me those posts were great inspiration for what I wear now, basically star wars extracore... Or if you've seen the movie "Prospect"... Or maybe like if you made an Ewok live in a wealthy apartment in blade runner universe.
Love the videos.
Thanks! I think there's some truth in that, for many people the inspiration was exactly that rather than a rulebook to be copied
You have no idea how much I'd love seeing people walk around in looks like this. I wanna see inspiration from everywhere, and for it to be so common that even insecure people wouldn't feel weird walking around like that. It's indeed a shame, though, even with the means, it's too much effort for most to go for such a particular style, probably even goes for the majority of those who are interested. It'd take quite the revolution for niches to be attainable enough for them not to get stuck in a negative feedback loop.
its such a difference depending on what city youre in. in my city things are so absolutely ironclad conservative. people wear black, grey, blue, or brown outfits. hoodies and parkas. jeans, and dark shoes. if you wear anything interesting or with any kind of color you get funny looks. i can count on one hand the people i've seen wearing like.. jordans. its a little depressing, ngl. i envy the people that live in cities where you can actually wear clothing outside the norm. i lived in NYC and you could wear a pink bunny suit on the subway and nobody would bat an eyelash
@@garyburke6156 Definitely, I've gotten some weird looks myself, living in a small town where most people probably still had a fur a few generations ago
A zero gravity look book would be interesting, especially if considerations for actually living in zero G are given. Removing loops and stuff to prevent catching on things all the time, some booties or minimalist footwear trying to keep from damaging things or people. I really like function in my stuff
Huh, I have been playing around with Grey/Silver/White Techwear fits for about 6 years now, didn't realize it was a thing. Cool.
I'm currently in the process of putting together a Lunacore fit.
Vollebak has some awesome stuff for that. The Mars range looks dope, vollebak not cheap though
Truly one of my favorites
that fit you assembled would pop with a shoulder bag and bucket hat, with a white balaclava underneath
Nice trend that I wear in spring and autumn
As a casual Lunacore observer I was really confused when you mentioned it’s not a well known term. But then I went and searched the # on Insta and there’s barely any posts! 😂 I thought this was a well known term RIP. Hope the word catches soon because I love the aesthetic.
Out of all things too be inspired by, SPACE is such a vibe. Lunar core would make the most sense if we as humans actually went the route of space exploration and such things that we thought was going to happen in the early 2000s but wars and other things got in the way of that... lunar to me is not so anime fiction or avatar alien, but human elements + tech and function. Maybe one day nasa hit us with the runway show wit all type of advance tech garments LOL
The concept of the costumes in Alien as “future workwear” is really interesting.
It's just a bloody awful name for such amazing aesthetic. I definitely dabble and mix in lunacore piece with my tech stuff. I think Guerilla Group have been pivoting away from straight up tech wear into more space inspired looks for a few years now. I have a jacket from the FW 2018 collection, that just screams Alien ship worker, from the cut to the texture of fabrics and the silver dyneema hood. I am not a fan of the all white/silver look but I love the scope of fabric texture this look has scope for. Great vid!
Moonboots from the 90s rip ankles lol 🎉 all the alien merch back then was so cool. 🔥
Lunarcore stonks finna blow up after this one
I'm officially the number 1 lunarcore pumper
This used to be big on fa like 6 years ago. I like it
This is exactly what I like. I had no idea it had a name. I would happily use it. I think the Zephyr jacket would fit as well.
Zephyr would definitely work! Crazy how far the word has fallen out of use in a relatively short time
FINALLY SOMEONE TALKING ABOUT LUNARCORE!
Hey antwon, just wondering about your thoughts on Inside Tag, since they're like a proto techwear ig oage based in England
I'm kind of accidentally lunar core, but think "camo into the dark of space" kind of branch. I use a lot of oil slick, black on black, heavy retro futurism, black reflective materials, and spots of bright reds and oranges. It's been compared to trying to dress like a black hole by friends. Lol
That evangelion tshirt is 🔥🔥
Looking up lunarcore and finding illustrations of the internal structure of the moon (literal lunarcore)
ironically the same palette as the fashion genre