Three in the morning, and the warehouse runs on electricity alone. The LED wall behind the booth flips from black to cyan, strobes stutter along the rafters, and every raised hood glows from below like a cockpit powering up. Over by the speaker stack, someone in a long printed cloak lifts both arms, and the machinery drawn across the fabric looks ready to turn over its engine.
Cyberpunk has always lived at this hour. It started on the page in the early 1980s as fiction about near-future cities, hackers and people who kept their technology close to the skin, and it has dressed the night ever since.
One branch of cyberpunk fashion answers that dream with function: tactical cuts, technical fabric, pockets on pockets. Ours answers it in color. Cyberpunk Mech and Alien Cyberpunk Mech, two designs from the sci-fi corner of the Magus Fawn studio, fill a whole wardrobe with glowing plated machinery, white sacred geometry and a star that burns at the chest like a reactor core. Machines, it turns out, can have a spiritual life. Ask anyone who has felt goosebumps at a synthesizer.
What is cyberpunk fashion?
Cyberpunk fashion is clothing that borrows the look of cyberpunk, a science-fiction genre set in near-future cities where advanced technology meets street life. Expect neon color on dark grounds, machine and circuit imagery, layers and utility. At Magus Fawn, it means mech art printed edge to edge on cloaks, hoodies, tees and rave pieces.
Its shortest definition fits in four words: "lowlife and high tech" (Wikipedia).
Two works gave the genre its shape. William Gibson's debut novel Neuromancer (1984) follows a hacker named Case, starting in Chiba City, Japan, and set down much of the genre's vocabulary, cyberspace included; it won the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards. Two years earlier, Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner (1982) imagined a high-tech, retrofitted Los Angeles of 2019, scored by Vangelis on synthesizers. That last detail matters to us: cyberpunk music was popularized by synth-heavy film scores like that one (Wikipedia), and the line from those scores to a modern dance floor is short and very loud.
We live and work in the real Los Angeles, a few years past the date that film imagined. The flying cars are running late. The neon showed up right on time.
Why is cyberpunk art neon on black?
Because cyberpunk is a city genre with a film-noir mood, and its best scenes happen after dark, lit by signs, screens and lasers rather than the sun. So the palette is glowing cyan, magenta and violet against near-black. Magus Fawn's mech designs follow that rule: electric color on deep navy, so the art reads like a lit city.
Neon itself is older than the genre by seven decades. In December 1910, at the Paris Motor Show, the French engineer Georges Claude unveiled neon tubes much like the ones that light signs today (Wikipedia). Cyberpunk took that glow and made it a mood. Blade Runner's deep shadows and wealth of neon made its look a favorite reference for later game designers (Wikipedia), and Gibson reached for receding city lights as one of the genre's first images of cyberspace (Wikipedia).
The mech in our design names comes from the same family tree. In science fiction, mecha (or mechs) are giant machines, usually humanoid walking vehicles piloted from a cockpit in the chest or head; the word began in Japanese as a shortening of the English "mechanism" or "mechanical" (Wikipedia). Our art borrows the word rather than the robot. No pilots here: just plating, lenses and circuitry, folded into mirror symmetry the way a mandala folds a cosmos.
So start dark and let one piece glow. Better still, make it the biggest one.
Why make a cloak the center of a cyberpunk outfit?
A cloak is the largest canvas you can wear, so it carries the most art, and a raised hood makes a private cockpit out of any crowd. At Magus Fawn, both mech designs come as zip-up festival cloaks, which means the whole design fits on one piece: chest emblem in front, a mirrored machine panel down the back.
Both cloaks share one build: a micro-mink poly shell (listed fabric weight 200 g/m²), a faux-fur lining (your choice of black or white), plus a double zipper down the front and heavy drawstrings on the hood. There are four pockets: a deep one at each side, plus two stash pockets inside, one of them zippered. The fit is unisex, XS through 5XL, and each design has a men's and a women's listing with the same spec.
The flagship: Alien Cyberpunk Mech. Zip the Alien Cyberpunk Mech Women's Festival Cloak ($250) to the collar and it becomes a hooded dress with a power source. A white star of interlocking triangles sits inside a ring on the chest, halved by the zipper, and a necklace of tiny white solids loops around it like orbiting satellites. Coral-red plumes flare at the waist, the Flower of Life glows in a medallion lower down, all swimming in cyan, teal and cobalt currents. Read it as first contact: a visiting machine that arrived bearing sacred geometry as its greeting. In our techno story Thirty Lights, this very cloak crosses a German airfield at night.
The engine room: Cyberpunk Mech. Where the alien design sends a signal, the Women Cloak | Cyberpunk Mech ($250) shows you the whole machine. Violet, cobalt and teal plating mirrors itself panel to panel, glinting amber at the seams, while white line geometry, rings of overlapping circles included, runs over the top like a navigator's star chart laid across the hull. Worn open, the black lining frames the art like a dark room around a light show. It's the cloak for the friend who reads the manual and then rewires the machine anyway.
The off-duty pod: the hooded blanket. Every cyberpunk hero needs a hideout. The Hooded Blanket w/ Ears | Alien Cyberpunk Mech ($150) is that hideout with sleeves: the same ringed star and sacred-geometry medallion, scaled up across poly fleece with a listed weight of 300 g/m² and cut as one oversize pullover in a single size (4XL). It has a cat-ear hood, a quarter zip at the collar and one roomy front pocket, so breakfast at camp comes with a place to stash the camp forks.
Cyberpunk hoodies, shirts and a hooded tank
Not every night calls for a cloak. For a warm room, a day stage or the everyday city, the same mech art comes on dye-sublimated cotton, where the ink becomes part of the fiber: three ways to wear a cyberpunk print without the full trench-coat energy.
The cyberpunk hoodie. The Cotton Unisex Pullover Hoodie | Cyberpunk Mech ($100) runs white sacred geometry down the front, from a lattice between the drawstrings to the Flower of Life over the pocket, with teal lenses and amber sparks on cobalt and violet and a cube of linked circles on each sleeve. It's 100% cotton with a listed weight of 310 g/m², finished with a kangaroo pocket and a drawstring on the hood, in sizes XS to 6XL (one of our widest size runs) with a relaxed regular fit. This is the one for the walk home when the city is still blue.
The cyberpunk shirt. Short sleeves, all machine. On the Cotton T-Shirt | Cyberpunk Mech ($60), a white figure of linked circles crowns a mirrored mech core that descends the torso in violet, cobalt and teal, with amber sparks in the joints and another circle just above the hem. The fabric is 100% cotton with a listed weight of 190 g/m², light enough for a packed dance floor, in XS to 5XL. Black cargo pants, as in the photo, are the classic partner: utility below, circuitry above.
The hooded tank. For peak time in a hot room, the Cotton Sleeveless Hooded Tank | Alien Cyberpunk Mech ($80) keeps the hood and drops the sleeves. The alien star rides high on the chest, a glowing lace mandala sits under it, and crimson plumes flank both like exhaust from a landing craft. Underneath the art: 100% cotton, listed at 310 g/m². A kangaroo pocket and a drawstring hood finish it; regular fit, XS to 5XL.
What makes a cyberpunk rave outfit work?
Three layers do it: a glowing statement piece, a dark utility base and one warm outer layer for the walk home. With Magus Fawn mech art, that can be a printed bodysuit or leggings under black, cargo pockets for the essentials, and a cloak or hoodie carrying the circuitry when the night turns cold.
Neon, placed with intent. For a club night, the Tube Top Bodysuit | Cyberpunk Mech ($75) puts the machinery on the torso, held up by clear straps over the shoulders, with black straps criss-crossing its open sides. The fabric is a stretch blend of 88% polyester and 12% spandex (listed weight 220 g/m²), regular fit, XS to 2XL. Add black shorts and boots, and the lasers do the rest.
Legs in full color. Flip the formula. The Alien Cyberpunk Mech Men's Festival Leggings ($65) pour cyan and violet currents from waistband to boot, trailed by tiny white polyhedra and crimson plumes at the shins, in a skinny fit of 90/10 polyester-spandex microfiber, XS to 3XL. Add a plain black top, and every strobe lands on the print.
Utility for the long night. Cyberpunk heroes carry gear. The Cargo Shorts | Cyberpunk Mech ($65, or $70 in 4XL and 5XL) come in a sturdy, denim-feel polyester (listed weight 190 g/m²) with a button waist and cargo pockets enough for keys, a card and a glow stick, in S to 5XL. Pockets on your legs mean no bag bouncing on the dance floor, and a pair under a techwear shell gives you the utility of one cyberpunk branch and the glow of the other.
Fit, ordering and care for cyberpunk pieces
Size for what goes underneath. For outerwear like cloaks and hoodies, our FAQ suggests going up, "sometimes even 2 sizes up to fit extra layers under." Unsure between two sizes? Email your measurements to art@magusfawn.com and we'll help; we typically reply within 1–2 business days.
Everything here comes made to order: production takes 7–11 business days, then delivery takes 6–14 business days. US shipping is free on orders of $70 and up, and international shipping starts at $10. Every sale is final, so a quick note to art@magusfawn.com about your measurements pays off. Care is simple: machine wash cold with like colors, no bleach, tumble dry low or (best) hang dry, and skip the iron and the dry cleaner. The cotton hoodie and tank shrink 3–5% in their first wash, so wash those two cold and hang them. The art is dye-sublimated, so it won't crack or fade, and every piece is 100% vegan friendly.
High tech, warm hands
Cyberpunk began as science fiction about tomorrow's cities, and a few decades on, the neon is what everyone kept. We think the genre's best idea is the one that fits on a body: technology can glow, carry meaning and keep you warm on the walk home. Choose your machine, zip it up and go find the lasers.
Shop the mech art: women's cloaks · men's cloaks · all festival cloaks · hooded blankets
More reading: What to wear to a rave: the full outfit guide and our Cyberpunk Mech volunteer-kitchen story, Four Hundred by First Light
Frequently asked questions
Who coined the word cyberpunk?
Bruce Bethke coined it as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", written in 1980 and published in Amazing Stories in 1983. He built the word by combining terms for technology with terms for troublemakers. The editor Gardner Dozois then spread it, and William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer helped make it the name of a whole genre.
Is techwear the same as cyberpunk clothing?
Not exactly. Techwear is the branch of cyberpunk-inspired fashion that emerged in the 2020s, drawing on functional clothing, tactical uniform and high-tech sportswear. Cyberpunk clothing is the wider family, which also includes cybergoth and colorful printed pieces. Magus Fawn's mech designs sit on the colorful side and pair easily with techwear cargo pants and boots.
What is cybergoth?
Cybergoth is a fashion and dance subculture inspired by cyberpunk fiction together with rave and Gothic style, so it lives somewhere between the club and the science-fiction shelf. To give a cybergoth outfit a visionary twist, wear a neon-on-navy Magus Fawn mech print over black, with platform boots or a utility harness of your own.
How is Alien Cyberpunk Mech different from Cyberpunk Mech?
Both are Magus Fawn mech-art designs with white sacred geometry on deep navy. Alien Cyberpunk Mech centers a ringed white star, flanked by coral-red plumes and cyan currents, like a visiting craft. Cyberpunk Mech shows the machine itself: mirrored violet, cobalt and teal plating with amber glints and white circuit-like linework.
Written by Magus & Lylyth Fawn, the Los Angeles artists behind Magus Fawn. Magus makes VR and digital visionary art and produces Psy EDM. Lylyth makes fractal digital art and runs design and customer care. We've been selling wearable art since 2020 (4.8★ from 147 reviews as of October 2026), and every piece is made to order here at magusfawn.com. Come say hi on Instagram @magusfawn.
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