The Handmaid's Tale costume designer Ane Crabtree has created a range of costumes for imaginary future inhabitants of Planet City, a cinematic metropolis for 10 billion people.
The outfits include full-length veils for urban beekeepers, pink headdresses for algae divers and horned headgear for bot herders that feature in the short film by architect Liam Young.
Other fictional professions include drone shepherds, who sport huge buffalo masks, and code talkers, who wear masks and helmets covered in spikes.
Crabtree's designs were inspired by everything from antique helmets to tribal designs while incorporating practical solutions for new types of workers in the speculative city, which houses the entire population of the Earth.
Top: two zero-waste weavers in a Planet City laundrette. Above: a beekeeper in a honey-coloured coat "The idea was to keep the costumes rooted in the real, while incorporating the poetry of many customs from lots of different cultures and countries, particularly those within the global south, and to hybridize nature with technology and man," Crabtree told Dezeen.
"The ideas were about how to recycle fabrics or articles of clothing, but also how fabric is made or remade in Planet City," she said. "What is left at the dawn of a new civilisation""
In Planet City, Young imagines a future in which the 10 billion inhabitants of the Earth live together in one giant, sustainable, multicultural city. This would only occupy a f...