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Mars Jacket

Engineered with an anti-gravity pocket for shifting gravity fields.

CHF 1,295CHF 38870% off
Colour: Dark Edition

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

  • 3D printed vomit pocket with screw cap opening
  • Anti-gravity pocket with internal and external zip openings
  • Outer material is 100% ballistic nylon

The last time we colonised a planet was around 50,000 years ago. And it led to the invention of clothing and complex tools, as well as the rapid evolution of languages, architecture and society. Now we’re at a unique point in human history where we have the ability to save our own planet at the same time as colonise new ones. So we’re designing for both. Because the future won’t invent itself.

Engineers, explorers, pilots, architects and scientists are all going to need gear up in space. And there’s a lot to design for – from shifting gravitational fields and space adaptation syndrome, to bathroom breaks. Which is why our Mars gear comes with a vomit pocket made from 3D printed Nylon powder, anti-gravity pockets for shifting gravity fields, and a horizontal fly based on flight gear. It’s industrial workwear fit for any planet.

Black Algae Shorts

Lightweight, breathable, fast drying, and dyed in black algae.

CHF 275CHF 82 70% off

Technical Details

Material made in Italy: 64% cotton, 32% polyamide, 4% elastane
Highly breathable
Fast drying
Two way horizontal stretch
Two open side pockets
Two back pockets with button closure
5 belt loops
Button fly
Shorts weigh 255 grams
Material weighs 149g/m2
Machine wash inside out at 30ºC
Constructed in Portugal
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We start with the softest cotton from the Nile Delta

Each pair of Black Algae Shorts starts with a world-class base material – a rare cotton called Karnak Menoufi. One of the lightest, softest materials on the planet, Karnak Menoufi is a silk-like cotton that’s only found in the Nile Delta, and only grows in the years when the rain, soil and wind conditions are perfect.

They’re super lightweight, highly breathable, and come with a beautifully faded look after being dyed in giant baths of black algae.

We turn cotton into a high-performance fabric

While Karnak Menoufi is already extremely soft and robust, we’ve added durability and stretch by combining it with elastane and an ultrafine nylon in Italy. The result is an advanced, lightweight material that feels extremely soft next to your skin. And it’s the exact same high-performance material we use to build our Equator Pants and Shorts for extreme heat.

Constructed with four pockets

You’ll find two open pockets at the front of the shorts. And there are two more pockets at the back of the shorts which each fasten with a bio-resin button.

Buttons made from plants and vegetables

The fly fastens with four buttons made of buffalo imitation bio-resin – a natural, non-toxic and water-based material we’ve produced by combining plant and vegetable waste with a polyester resin used by the aerospace industry.

The algae we use starts life in huge open-air ponds where it grows by feeding on sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients.

The first clothing dyed with black algae

We’re on a mission to show that black algae dye can be a viable and sustainable alternative to traditional petroleum-based dyes. So over the last few years we've been working with US biomaterials company Living Ink to accelerate the adoption of black algae as a way to colour clothing. After their founders Scott and Steve discovered that an algae cell is almost identical in size to a carbon black pigment, and can create the same colour, they’ve been on a mission to replace carbon black with black algae waste.

Turning algae into dye took 5 years of R&D

To create a black algae dye, each individual particle in the pigment needs to be microscopically small, otherwise the jacket’s fibres won’t absorb them. So Living Ink have spent 5 years in R&D working on how to reduce the size of the black algae particles to an average of 1 micron. This breakthrough creates a sustainable alternative to dyeing clothing using traditional carbon-black based dyes, and with a clear pathway for scaling up.

To create a black algae dye, each individual particle in the pigment needs to be microscopically small – an average of 1 micron.

Our algae starts life in giant ponds

The algae we use starts life in huge open-air ponds where it grows by feeding on sunlight, carbon dioxide, water and nutrients. These ponds contain vast quantities of spirulina algae which absorb carbon dioxide and pump oxygen back out into the atmosphere. While the majority of the algae is used to make natural food colourings, the rest of the algae is harvested and used as the base for black algae dye.

Size + Fit

The Black Algae Shorts are designed with a regular fit. If you’re on the borderline between two waist sizes, we recommend going for the larger size.

SizeXSSMLXLXXL
Fits waist71 - 7676 - 8181 - 8686 - 9191 - 9696 - 101
Outside leg101102.5104105.5107108.5
SizeXSSMLXLXXL
Fits waist28 - 3030 - 3232 - 3434 - 3636 - 3838 - 40
Outside leg39.740.340.941.542.142.7