Fashion frontier: UNB student helps create dress designed for space [Video]

University of New Brunswick student Jagriti Luitel has been interested in space since she was a child. Now, that interest, and her passion for fashion,  have opened the door to stellar career potential.

“I felt like, ‘What can I do that other people can’t do?’ and I’m just following my talent and gifts,” she said.

Luitel was one of 48 people last spring who participated in zero gravity flights through the Aurelia Institute, an organization seeking to prepare humans for space travel.

Her project is a dress that combines femininity, her Nepalese identity and practicality (the dress has pockets) to explore what fashion in space might look like — with the help of New York City fashion designer Deborah Won.

“Economically, in the next 20 or 30 …