Mars Hoodie

Our new Mars Hoodie recreates the planet’s polar dunes at 1:10,000 scale using computers and robots.

CHF 745.00 CHF 372.00
Size

Model is 6ft 4 / 193cm with a 42 inch / 107cm chest, and wears size XL.

  • A sculpted 3D hoodie made from multi-dimensional material
  • Based on the polar dunes on Mars
  • Designed by computers and built by robots

As you read these words here on Earth, 249 million miles away in Mars’ Jezero Crater, a little six-wheeled robot is busy looking for signs that the red planet was once home to life too. Head just another few thousand miles north – past extinct supervolcanoes, thousand-mile-wide impact craters, and towering black sand dunes – and you reach the Corduroy Dunes, a desolate and truly alien landscape.

During Martian winters, more than 3 trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide freezes directly out of the atmosphere, coating the dunes in a blanket of dry ice, trapping them in place and hiding them from view. But when spring arrives, and the ice cap thaws, a sculpted and ever-shifting sci-fi landscape slowly comes to life. And on May 29, 2018, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed the Corduroy Dunes in stunning detail for the first time.

Thanks to NASA’s pioneering work we’ve taken the polar dunes of Mars, shrunk them down to 1:10,000 scale, then turned them into a sculpted 3D hoodie that’s programmed by computers and knitted by robots. Designed to mirror the shapes, colours and textures of the planet we’ll one day call home, we’ve turned the landscape into a padded, multidimensional fabric – then used that to create the ultimate chillout hoodie on any planet.

Technical Details

Material made in Belgium
Double layered 3D knit
70% recycled polyester, 30% virgin polyester fill
Breathable
Insulating
High-wicking
Two-way front zipper
Two zipped side pockets
Two open inside pockets
Low profile elasticated cord adjusters at the hood
Hoodie weighs 1300 grams
Material weighs 650g/m2
Hoodie constructed in Portugal
Machine wash at 30°C
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The Mars Hoodie is half hoodie, half bed

As we begin to explore new worlds millions of miles from our own planet, we need to think about clothing in new ways. So we’ve started working on chill-out gear for Mars that’s designed to help you feel at home, even if you’re 249 million miles away. To build the ultimate comfort hoodie we left normal clothing factories behind, and turned to the technology traditionally found in Scandinavian mattresses. Built by the same machines that build beds, the Mars Hoodie is the most comfortable hoodie ever made.

Short of leaving the house wearing your duvet, the Mars Hoodie is the closest you’re going to get to lying in your own bed 24/7.

Built by a machine that builds beds

To make clothing this unusual requires an equally unusual machine. The reason the Mars Hoodie shares its DNA with bedding is because it’s been built on a monster circular knitting machine that stands over two metres tall. And it’s that tall because it uses the same techniques used to make mattresses. Sitting on top are eight yarn feeders. Each feeder can be programmed to knit a single pixel, or bit, within the textile. This means the textile can be engineered from the yarn up, giving complete control over the whole process. So we decided to recreate the polar dunes of Mars.

The Mars Hoodie recreates the planet’s polar dunes at 1:10,000 scale using computers and robots.

The hoodie recreates the polar dunes of Mars

As you read these words here on Earth, 249 million miles away in Mars’ Jezero Crater, a little six-wheeled robot is busy looking for signs that the red planet was once home to life too. Head just another few thousand miles north past extinct supervolcanoes, thousand-mile-wide impact craters, and towering black sand dunes, and you reach the Corduroy Dunes – a desolate and truly alien landscape that’s part of a giant ring of sand dune fields surrounding Mars’ North Pole.

The Corduroy Dunes are the kind of place you’d expect to see the cast of Dune flying over in an Ornithopter if you hung out there long enough.

We’ve shrunk the dunes down to 1:10,000 scale

Thanks to their pioneering work we’ve taken the polar dunes of Mars, shrunk them down to 1:10,000 scale, then turned them into a sculpted 3D hoodie that’s programmed by computers and knitted by robots. Designed to mirror the shapes, colours and textures of the planet we’ll one day call home, we’ve turned the landscape into a padded, multidimensional fabric – then used that to create the ultimate chillout hoodie on any planet.

It's double layered and 3D-knitted

The Mars Hoodie is a double-layered, weighted, 3D-knitted hoodie created out of multi-dimensional fabric, and unlike anything on Earth. Its padded, sculptural texture comes from the unique way its layers are blended together. During the knitting process the area between the upper and lower layer is pushed full of yarn and allowed to expand, giving it its custom puffy 3D appearance. It’s why the hoodie is covered in cratered sections and others that look like they’ve had air pumped into them. And it’s this patterned mattress-like effect that makes it feel like you’re climbing into bed when you put it on. 

The Mars Hoodie is a double-layered, weighted, 3D-knitted hoodie created out of multi-dimensional fabric, and unlike anything on Earth.

Why the hoodie isn’t red

As for the colour… while Mars has always looked red thanks to the dust storms that blow red-brown iron oxide dust and particles of red hematite into the atmosphere, the landscape itself isn’t that red at all. Made from volcanic glass and powdered basalt from eroded volcanoes, the Corduroy Dunes are a subtle blend of black, grey and tan. So we’ve engineered the hoodie with a weirdly hypnotic blend of black, grey and tan threads, which makes the hoodie look computer generated until you get up close to it.

Pockets on the outside and the inside

You’ll find two large, zipped pockets on the outside of the Mars Hoodie. These are lined just like the rest of the hoodie, and you can either use them to hold your Personal Preference Kit, or just give yourself a hug. You’ll find two more pockets on each side of the inside of the hoodie, and we’ve kept these ones open for easy access.

Downtime on Mars will be key. And that’s why we’ve built a hoodie that’s designed to feel like you’ve stayed in bed.

Built for comfort

Everything about the Mars Hoodie has been built to maximise comfort. So either side of the hood you’ll find elasticated drawcord adjusters to tighten it up. The hood is lined, just like the rest of the hoodie, so it’s soft against your face and skin. The cuffs and hem are bound and elasticated. The sleeves are shaped and darted for added articulation. The front zipper is heavy-duty and two-way so you can undo the hoodie from the top and the bottom at the same time. And the centre hood seam is taped internally with grosgrain and topstitched. The hoodie is also breathable, insulating and high-wicking.

Designed to feel like you’ve stayed in bed

However extreme the future becomes, at the end of a hard day you’re still going to want super comfortable clothes to relax in – it really doesn’t matter whether you’ve disappeared off grid on Earth, or you’re living on a base on Mars. And life on any early Martian base will be especially intense, as we’ll have to rebuild everything we take for granted here on Earth. It means downtime will be key. And that’s why we started working on a hoodie that’s designed to feel like you’ve stayed in bed.

Mars clothing won’t all be about state-of-the-art robotics, or built-in life support systems. We’ll need loungewear too.

A hoodie built for downtime

The Mars Hoodie is what you’ll wear when you’re watching your favourite TV show from Earth on another planet. At least that’s the brief we started with. Because not everything in space will need to be crazily high tech. Most of the time astronauts on the International Space Station float about in t-shirts and khakis. Which means we’re going to need clothes to help us relax on Mars too. It won’t all need to come with state-of-the-art robotics, built-in life support systems or heads-up gold visors to block out the sun’s rays. We’ll need loungewear too.

Our space story so far

Over the last 5 years we’ve been exploring the realities of life in space, and how clothing can start to solve some of the challenges we’ll face. From our Deep Sleep Cocoon that’s a cross between an exoskeleton and a spacesuit, to our Mars Jacket and Pants that come with 3D printed vomit pockets to tackle space adaptation syndrome, to our Martian Aerogel Jacket which is built from the same advanced aerogel and parachutes that land Rovers on Mars. With the Mars Hoodie we’re working on the idea of ‘how do you feel at home on another planet?’

Size + Fit

The Mars Hoodie (Polar Dunes Edition) has a relaxed 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