Planet Earth Ultralight Pants
Ultra lightweight softshell pants built for every climate and terrain on Earth.
- Ultra lightweight weighing 275 grams
- Water and dirt repellent with fluorocarbon-free nanotechnology
- Extreme two way stretch
The Planet Earth Ultralight Pants are part of a system of ultralight, highly technical all-weather clothing designed to take you across every climate, environment and terrain on the surface of Earth.
Every pair starts out with advanced material technology developed by Schoeller in Switzerland, before being assembled at a cutting-edge Portuguese factory that builds skin suits for elite Olympic athletes. Highly elastic, breathable and fast drying, they’re equipped with three zipped pockets, and repel water and dirt with engineered fibres that mimic the self-cleaning effect produced by plant leaves.
DNA T Shirt
Made with genetically engineered self-replicating microorganisms, and DNA.

Technical Details

You’ve already got about 16 billion kilometres of DNA inside you. In case that’s not quite enough, you might like a DNA T Shirt.
A quick recap on what DNA is exactly
DNA is the biological molecule that contains the genetic code an organism needs to develop, survive and reproduce. It is found in most cells of every organism. The differences in DNA are why one person has blue eyes rather than brown, why giraffes have long necks and why you’ll find more than a thousand different varieties of mango in India. Every human cell contains around 6 feet of DNA. With around 10 trillion cells inside each human, that means each person has around 60 trillion feet, or 16 billion kilometres of DNA inside them.

DNA doesn’t just make us, us. It also makes many of the colours we see in the natural world.


A step by step guide to making clothes with DNA
The first step is selecting the colour you want that exists in nature. Luckily you’ll find them in one of the world’s open-source biomolecular databases – like the Universal Protein Resource in Switzerland, or GenBank in Maryland which houses a collection of sequences for 300,000+ organisms. Starting life in the 1980s, today they look after sequences for species from around the world – from plants and animals, to insects and microbes – and their libraries are doubling roughly every 18 months.




Implanting the DNA into a bacterial cell
Next comes the fun bit, as you’ll need to imagine a microbiologist with some rubber gloves, a microscope, encouraging a microbe to engulf and implant the DNA sequence of the indigoid producing enzyme – in this case it’s a single bacterial cell in a petri dish which self-replicates every 20 minutes. And as it replicates, it produces more and more indigo pigment.


From a petri dish to a high-tech brewery
To make enough colour to dye clothes we obviously need more than just a petri dish of indigo. So we send our genetically engineered microorganisms to RDD, a cutting-edge dyehouse in Portugal. Here they’re grown in the same way you’d brew beer – through fermentation. The cells are added to a fermentation machine with water, sugar, yeast and plant waste. The more you feed them, the more they grow. And by doubling every 20 minutes they quickly create enough liquid to start dyeing a t shirt.

Dyed in a giant bath of DNA dye
To dye our DNA T Shirt, we submerge it in the bacterial soup we’ve brewed up. The bacteria latch onto the surface of the t shirt and start to release their colour into the fibres of the material. The indigoid-producing enzyme generates different shades of colour depending on the types of sugars we feed it during fermentation. So the DNA T Shirt comes in two different shades of blue.




When we first started making clothing, the idea of getting to work with DNA was as improbable and far off as working with single layer graphene, vantablack, or kryptonite.


Size + Fit
The DNA T Shirt is designed with a regular fit.
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits chest | 83 - 90 | 91 - 98 | 99 - 106 | 107 - 114 | 115 - 122 | 123 - 130 |
Fits waist | 71 - 76 | 76 - 81 | 81 - 86 | 86 - 91 | 91 - 96 | 96 - 101 |
Size | XS | S | M | L | XL | XXL |
Fits chest | 33 - 36 | 36 - 39 | 39 - 42 | 42 - 45 | 45 - 48 | 48 - 51 |
Fits waist | 28 - 30 | 30 - 32 | 32 - 34 | 34 - 36 | 36 - 38 | 38 - 40 |