Scientific Silhouettes: Styling Women in STEM

Addy Brennan
May 1
3 min read

Updated: Aug 30

You can love glitter and gravity. Lip gloss and launch codes. You can wear a lab coat and make it a look. A tribute to the amazing women in STEM that I look up to.

Scientific Silhouettes is a love letter to women in STEM,

the ones breaking barriers in both fields and fashion. This collection is inspired by my own lifelong love of science, and by the women who prove you don’t have to choose between being brilliant and being bold.

Icons like Kellie Gerardi and Emily Calandrelli have shown us that curiosity and creativity go hand in hand. That you can build rockets and still rock rhinestones. That you can bring friendship bracelets into orbit and still run the numbers.

Each piece in this collection is designed to reflect that duality:

Structure meets sparkle.

Equations meet elegance.

Scientific precision meets personal expression.

From bedazzled tanks with launch formulas to silhouettes that echo the clean lines of lab wear reimagined, Scientific Silhouettes invites you to celebrate your multitudes. Because you don’t have to sacrifice one part of yourself for another. Delta V Tank Top

A stylish young woman in a science inspired y2k tank top

The Delta V Tank Top is Y2K nostalgia with a brain. Bedazzled and bold, it features the formula for rocket launch velocity, a nod to Kellie Gerardi and her daughter, Delta Victoria. This piece is proof that you can exist in the intersections: you can be glamorous and groundbreaking, an influencer and an astronaut, a designer and a deep-space nerd. The Delta V Tank is for anyone who’s been boxed in, underestimated, or objectified, it takes the gaze and flips it back with brilliance: if you’re going to stare, you might as well learn something.

Stylish young woman in a blue bold 60s inspired wrap dress with a blue print space shuttle pattern holding a metallic purse and metallic boots

Blueprint Babe Dress

The Blueprint Babe Dress wraps Sally Ride’s fearless legacy into a feminine, flowy silhouette inspired by the 70s wrap dress. With a repeating print of Challenger’s NASA blueprints, it doesn’t just “challenge” (wink wink) the idea of what a woman in STEM looks like, it rewrites it. This dress says intelligence and femininity aren’t contradictions, they’re power partners. It’s for the women who calculate orbital mechanics in the morning and command a room at night, proving that style and substance are both rocket fuel.

The Lamarr Shawl

a fashionable young lady in a cropped kimono with a blue print as the pattern

The Lamarr Shawl is an ode to Hedy Lamarr, the woman who dazzled Hollywood while dreaming up the signal-hopping technology that paved the way for WiFi and Bluetooth. Cropped and kimono-inspired, its intricate pattern is built from Lamarr’s original handwritten blueprints, a literal fabric of genius. This piece reclaims her story from the shallow gaze that reduced her to a pretty face. It reminds us that brilliance often hides in plain sight, and that beauty and brains have never been mutually exclusive.

A beautiful stylish young woman in a flowy halter topped dress with a bold colored pattern depicting signal hopping technology in action

The Hedy Dress

The Hedy Dress is glamour and intellect in motion—a silken halter gown that cascades with signal-hopping rendered in color-blocked waves. Where the Shawl preserves Lamarr’s genius in ink, the Hedy Dress embodies it in movement. Flowing, elegant, and impossible to ignore, it captures the kinetic energy of her mind at work. To wear it is to step into both starlight and stardust, reminding the world that innovation can be as breathtaking as it is essential.

The Hamilton Dress

a recreation of the iconic Margret Hamilton image, this is a maxi wrap dress in purple with the code Hamilton wrote as the pattern

The Hamilton Dress stitches together two powerhouses: Margaret Hamilton and Diane von Fürstenberg. With the wrap dress silhouette that defined 70s power dressing and a pattern drawn from Apollo launch spreadsheets, this piece is both a nod to history and a reimagining of it. The stripes mimic the dress Hamilton wore in her iconic photo beside the tower of code she wrote, turning dense formulas into wearable art. This dress is a lunar launch in textile form, equal parts beauty, resilience, and mathematics that got us to the moon.

A stylish woman in a red bold bomber jacket with Nichelle Nicholes on it

Hailing All Frequencies Bomber Jacket

The Hailing All Frequencies Bomber Jacket celebrates Nichelle Nichols, who shattered barriers as Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek, but didn’t stop there. She used her fame to recruit for NASA, opening the door for women and people of color to enter STEM and space exploration. This jacket is both fashion and frequency, carrying her voice across time and galaxies. It’s wearable testimony to the truth that no one is bound to one role, you can transcend, amplify, and hail all frequencies.