Blade Runner, Tron and Star Trek: The Motion Picture: these highly influential and stylistic sci-fi films feature the future vision of Syd Mead, who "in the 1970s and 1980s, not only predicted what the world would look like in 2016, but cemented that future as a reality." That's how Opening Ceremony co-creative heads Carol Lim and Humberto Leon put it in the first page of a small book left on each seat of their Fall runway presentation.

Mead wasn't just an inspiration behind the future-tech collection, he was a collaborator. Using his landmark visual cues as well as digital versions of his '80s-era illustrations-which were actually predictions, and eerily accurate ones-Lim and Leon forged a wardrobe that's both here and now, now and later, and thoughtfully retro.

The collection had plenty of present day staples-pencil skirts, parkas, denim-but they all featured forward-thinking tweaks, whether oversized grommets or lame fabrications. This is a direct echo of Mead's work: the future always looks pretty familiar.

Where the collection really got sci-fi was where crocodile-stamped velvet, for example, built thigh-high boots and mini skirts. In an interview between Lim and Mead in the booklet, the designer asked the artist about his relationship to futuristic clothing.

"Fashion is sort of a stylistic game," Mead answered. "To wear a $6,000 handmade suit from whoever, that's the stuff of superstars. The average people don't do that. And when I do something in the future, the people in my illustrations scale their surrounding. It comforts the viewer, who thinks that, 'Oh, these people live like they're normal. So it must be okay.' It's a seduction that makes my illustrations seem possible. "

Opening Ceremony's future looks are a similar sort of seduction.

The collection's accessories were collaborations too; watches were made in partnership with Fossil, sunglasses with Gentle Monster from Korea, and the line's first-ever jewelry- subtle, safety pin-like brooches and more-was made with New York City's Chrishabana.

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-Laura Cassidy