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Carbon Fibre Jacket. Blue Edition
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Carbon Fibre Jacket. Blue Edition

Carbon Fibre Jacket. Blue Edition

Engineered with carbon fibre spirals that work like high-strength springs.
CHF 142 CHF 475 70% off
Model is 5ft 11 / 180cm with a 38 inch / 97cm chest, and wears size Medium.
  • Woven with 180 metres of carbon fibre for strength
  • Lightweight, water repellent and breathable
  • Extreme four way stretch
With an atomic structure stronger than steel, carbon fibre is normally used to reinforce components in missiles, jet engines and the world’s fastest cars. Which is why objects made out of carbon fibre don’t normally stretch like an elastic band. But our Carbon Fibre Jacket does.

We start by engineering 180 metres of carbon fibre filaments into spirals, before wrapping them around an elastane core. Together they work like high-strength springs, expanding and compressing as the jacket stretches and moves. Woven into a visible grid structure, the carbon fibre acts as a ripstop that adds tensile strength and abrasion resistance to a jacket that’s already highly elastic, lightweight and water repellent. And its minimalist track jacket shape makes it versatile in any season.

Technical details

Material made in Italy: 68% polyamide, 31% elastane, 1% carbon fibre
Carbon fibre weave
Extreme four way stretch
Water repellent
Breathable
Abrasion resistant
Two hidden side pockets with lockable zippers
Two way water resistant front zipper
Snap adjusters at cuffs
Material weighs 149g/m2
Jacket weighs 300 grams
Machine wash 30°C
Constructed in Vietnam
Material made in Italy: 68% polyamide, 31% elastane, 1% carbon fibre
Carbon fibre weave
Extreme four way stretch
Water repellent
Breathable
Abrasion resistant
Two hidden side pockets with lockable zippers
Two way water resistant front zipper
Snap adjusters at cuffs
Material weighs 149g/m2
Jacket weighs 300 grams
Machine wash 30°C
Constructed in Vietnam
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Woven with 180 metres of carbon fibre

With an atomic structure stronger than steel, carbon fibre is normally used to reinforce components in missiles, jet engines and the world’s fastest cars. But carbon fibre can also be engineered to enhance the strength and elasticity of clothing. So we’ve woven 180 metres of it into the Carbon Fibre Jacket to create a highly resilient, elastic and lightweight outer layer.
With an atomic structure stronger than steel, carbon fibre is normally used to reinforce components in missiles, jet engines and the world’s fastest cars.

Carbon fibre spirals work like springs

We start by engineering carbon fibre filaments into spirals, before wrapping them around an elastane core. Together they work like high-strength springs, expanding and compressing as the jacket stretches and moves. The carbon fibre increases the jacket’s stress resistance and tensile strength, which is the force needed to break fibres when they’re pulled in opposite directions. This means that the jacket is highly resistant to wear and tear, as instead of stretching out over time, the fibres simply snap back into shape again and again.
Every jacket comes with 180 metres of carbon fibre filaments engineered into spirals that work like high-strength springs.

It’s lightweight with extreme four way stretch

Just under a third of the jacket is built from elastane, which is the same amount you’d normally find in high performance compression gear. It gives the jacket extreme 4 way stretch but remains incredibly lightweight.

Carbon fibre increases the jacket’s tensile strength

We weave the 180 metres of carbon fibre strands directly into a base material of Nylon and elastane in a grid structure. The strands of carbon fibre run horizontally and vertically throughout the entire jacket. And this carbon fibre grid works like an advanced ripstop, reinforcing the jacket by increasing its tensile strength, abrasion resistance and elasticity.
The jacket’s carbon fibre grid works like an advanced ripstop, increasing its tensile strength and elasticity.

The carbon fibre grid creates a pixelated effect

While lots of the technology we use in our clothing is invisible to the naked eye, the carbon fibre is really easy to see. The grid of dark grey carbon fibre strands contrasts with the jacket’s base material to create a pixelated effect. Each carbon fibre ‘pixel’ is exactly 3mm high and 3mm wide.

Abrasion resistant, water repellent and breathable

The carbon fibre ripstop works with the Nylon base material to add abrasion resistance, protecting you and the jacket against damage caused by friction. We’ve coated the outside of the material with a water repellent treatment so that light rain rolls off its surface. And the jacket is also fast drying and breathable when you’re working hard.
The jacket is cut in a minimalist track jacket shape, making it versatile and easy to wear through every season.

Two hidden zipped pockets

The jacket comes with two large zipped side pockets. The zippers are completely concealed behind carbon fibre fabric, so that only their grippy rubber pullers are visible.

Every detail is designed for comfort and versatility

A water resistant two way zipper starts at the funnel collar and runs down the centre of the jacket. The cuffs can be tightened by 2.5 centimetres with a simple lightweight snap fastener system. And the jacket is cut in a minimalist track jacket shape, making it versatile and easy to wear through every season.

It's the atomic structure that makes carbon fibre so strong

A single carbon fibre is a long, super thin strand of material around 0.005mm across and composed almost entirely of carbon atoms. These atoms bond together to form microscopic crystals that line up parallel to the length of the fibre. It makes the atomic structure of carbon fibre similar to graphite and graphene – with sheets of carbon atoms arranged in a regular hexagonal pattern. And it’s the arrangement of the atoms that makes carbon fibre so strong for its size.
We’ve taken carbon fibre out of the world of aerospace and military engineering and used it to build the Carbon Fibre Jacket.

Carbon fibre can be 5x stronger than steel and much lighter

The material we know as carbon fibre is made up of thousands of these individual carbon filaments bundled together and protected by a coating. These larger carbon fibres are classified by how much pulling force the fibre can exert without breaking – known as tensile modulus. Whereas steel has a tensile modulus of around 29 million pounds of force per square inch (PSI), carbon fibre ranges from around 30 to 145 million PSI, which is 5x stronger than steel.

Carbon fibre as a composite

Carbon fibres are typically combined with other materials to make a composite. That’s why the classic image of carbon fibre is the black and grey checks on a bike frame or supercar. These are carbon fibres impregnated with a plastic resin and baked to create carbon fibre reinforced polymer. If your jacket was made from that it would be completely solid, so we’ve done something different.

How we put carbon fibre into a jacket

As well as being baked into other materials, carbon fibre can also be woven into them to increase their strength. The first step of the process is engineering super thin filaments of carbon fibre into spiral structures. We then wrap these spirals around strands of stretchy elastane, before combining them with Nylon and more elastane to make the final material.

Size + Fit

The Carbon Fibre Jacket 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