2WP5M0W Paris, Frankreich. 04th Mar, 2024. COPERNI Fall/Winter 2024 runway during Paris Fashion Week on February 2024 – Paris, France 04/03/2024 Credit: dpa/Alamy Live News
Once again fashion takes a leap into science, mixing avant-garde with NASA-level engineering. The air swipe bag, featured in Coperni’s Paris FW24 show is 99% air and 1% glass and was created using NASA’s silica aerogel technology (a material dubbed the lightest solid on the planet able to withstand temperatures of 1200°C and pressure 4000 times its weight). It weighs only 33 grams and was created in collaboration with Professor Ioannis Michaloudis.
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The bag is misty in appearance almost resembling frozen smoke and is the biggest object to ever be constructed of this nanomaterial previously utilised for capturing stardust in 1999. This bag may be limited in the field of practicality (shockingly it will in fact be able to hold items) but fashion is all about pushing boundaries and changing people’s perspective on what clothing can be.
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Coperni is reminding people that Fashion is still fun and innovative and doesn’t have to be taken so seriously. I mean why not have a bag that is 99% air? In the age of social media, we have to remind ourselves fashion doesn’t have to be about trends, influencers, and driving consumerism – it can still be about creative freedom and innovation!
2WP5M2M Paris, Frankreich. 04th Mar, 2024. COPERNI Fall/Winter 2024 runway during Paris Fashion Week on February 2024 – Paris, France 04/03/2024 Credit: dpa/Alamy Live News
