(Atlanta, GA April 22, 208) Dressed in a bright orange suit, white gloves and pumps, adventuresome author Vanna Bonta looked like she stepped out of the moon-landing era 1960s, except for the flashing hair lights and glowing crystal earring in one ear.

At a festival known as Yuri’s Night, a yearly space bash commemorating the first human in space and the anniversary of the space shuttle, Ms. Bonta confessed from the stage to the crowd that she would have been voted least likely to give a talk about fashion, admitting she often wore paper clips as hair barrettes so she could get on with what interested her.

From a stage at the NASA Ames Research Facility’s event, Bonta said space is the best inspiration for “hot haute” style, which should multi-task as well as express and impress. Agreeing with Yves St. Laurent that fashion is whimsy but style is a forever thing, the Flight author said spacewear style is all about the “convergence of fashion and function.”

Bonta held up a pair of pale blue mettalic flats and praised them as sensible shoes.

“But remember,” she said, “When you get there…” and with a flick of her finger, the flats ejected heels as she finished, “… you need something to wear.”

Bonta is also an actress with years of mostly voice contributions to major feature movies and television. Some may know her from a cameo she played as the hero’s young mother, Zed’s Queen, of the ever-popular fantasy movie The Beastmaster. After her arrival to Hollywood with instant jobs as a young startlet in the 80s, Bonta also danced for MTV videos and wrote songs, but remained deicated to literary work. Her first novel, Flight, first published in 1996, was released as an audiobook this year, with Bonta applying years of voice experience to the narration.

Also a space advocate and editor in chief of The Cosmos Review, a magazine launched for The Space Frontier Foundation dedicated to the celebration of space through poetry, Bonta’s shoe innovation is called the “Ever” shoe, as in GoWear Ever. The muti-talented artist seems to carry the tradition of her mother’s Renaissance-famous hometown, Florence, Italy.

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