The next 100 years won’t look like the last 100. As floods and fires sweep across countries, and we face life on Earth with new categories of ultraviolent weather, we’re going to need new categories of clothing. So we make gear that protects you from fires, megastorms, and a world that’s heating up.

As we begin to explore new worlds millions of miles from our own planet, we need to think about clothing in new ways. While spaceships, Mars Rovers and lunar landers are all designed to exist in space, the human body is not. Of all the systems that will be launched into the solar system over the next century, it’s the weakest and most fragile. So we’re going to need clothing to solve the complex questions that will arise as we go intergalactic.

Clothing has been heading backwards for the last century. 5,000 years ago our ancestors made their clothes from nature, using grass, tree bark, animal skins and plants. Today a garbage truck’s worth of clothing is dumped into landfill somewhere on Earth every single second.

We’re on the edge of a revolution. While clothes today still do the same things they did for early man – keeping you warm dry and cool – over the next century clothing will start to enhance our strength, sensory perception, intelligence, and life expectancy.