The Out-of-This-World Designs of André Courrèges in Vogue

The Space Age look--short, white, streamlined--introduced by the Basque designer André Courrèges, who died last night, was as revolutionary as the silhouette Christian Dior launched in 1947. Unlike Dior's nostalgia-drenched New Look, Courrèges's modern one was entirely of the moment. "[He] saw with the eyes of his generation--it was a time of missiles to the moon," the designer's wife and partner, Coqueline, told Vogue in 1995. Astronauts weren't the only ones making strides: Women's lives we...