space

See how we’re designing for life on the next planet

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.

  • The Mars Jacket and pants are industrial workwear for Mars

    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 is built with ballistic nylon and comes with a vomit pocket made from 3D printed Nylon powder, a horizontal fly based on flight suits, and an anti-gravity pocket for shifting gravity fields.

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  • The Mars Jacket and pants are industrial workwear for Mars

    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 is built with ballistic nylon and comes with a vomit pocket made from 3D printed Nylon powder, a horizontal fly based on flight suits, and an anti-gravity pocket for shifting gravity fields.

  • The Mars Jacket and pants are industrial workwear for Mars

    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 is built with ballistic nylon and comes with a vomit pocket made from 3D printed Nylon powder, a horizontal fly based on flight suits, and an anti-gravity pocket for shifting gravity fields.

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Built with its own vomit pocket for shifting gravity fields

When Soviet astronaut Gherman Titov blasted off in Vostok II in 1961, he became the first person to throw up in space. Space sickness, or space adaptation syndrome (SAS), is what happens when the body’s vestibular system – which helps maintain balance on the ground – is thrown into disarray as it encounters a lack of gravity for the first time. And that’s why our Mars Jacket comes with a vomit pocket built in.

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  • The Mars Hoodie is designed to help you relax on Mars

    Life on any early Martian base will be intense, as we’ll have to rebuild everything we take for granted here on Earth. It means downtime will be key. So we’re building chill-out gear for Mars that’s designed to help you feel at home, even if you’re 249 million miles away.

    See the Mars Hoodie

  • The Mars Hoodie is designed to help you relax on Mars

    Life on any early Martian base will be intense, as we’ll have to rebuild everything we take for granted here on Earth. It means downtime will be key. So we’re building chill-out gear for Mars that’s designed to help you feel at home, even if you’re 249 million miles away.

  • The Mars Hoodie is designed to help you relax on Mars

    Life on any early Martian base will be intense, as we’ll have to rebuild everything we take for granted here on Earth. It means downtime will be key. So we’re building chill-out gear for Mars that’s designed to help you feel at home, even if you’re 249 million miles away.

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  • It’s built by the same machines that build beds

    The Mars Hoodie is the ultimate comfort hoodie – it’s what you’ll wear when you’re watching your favourite TV show from Earth on another planet. The double-layered, weighted, 3D knitted hoodie is created out of multi-dimensional fabric, and unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Its padded, sculptural texture is based on the Martian surface, the cooling systems on spacesuits, and the pressurised inflatable buildings likely to become home on our second planet.

  • It’s built by the same machines that build beds

    The Mars Hoodie is the ultimate comfort hoodie – it’s what you’ll wear when you’re watching your favourite TV show from Earth on another planet. The double-layered, weighted, 3D knitted hoodie is created out of multi-dimensional fabric, and unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Its padded, sculptural texture is based on the Martian surface, the cooling systems on spacesuits, and the pressurised inflatable buildings likely to become home on our second planet.

  • It’s built by the same machines that build beds

    The Mars Hoodie is the ultimate comfort hoodie – it’s what you’ll wear when you’re watching your favourite TV show from Earth on another planet. The double-layered, weighted, 3D knitted hoodie is created out of multi-dimensional fabric, and unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Its padded, sculptural texture is based on the Martian surface, the cooling systems on spacesuits, and the pressurised inflatable buildings likely to become home on our second planet.

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Mars is a world waiting to come to life again  

4 billion years ago rivers ran on Mars. The red planet was once blue. In Mars’s northern hemisphere a vast sea covered a fifth of the Martian surface. And with temperatures of around 25 degrees, all you’d have needed to walk around was an oxygen mask. Below the surface, the red planet still has vest reservoirs of frozen water today. It also has the minerals you need to support civilization – from iron and nitrogen, to oxygen and carbon. It’s a world waiting to come to life.

The Deep Sleep Cocoon is based on the exoskeleton of a woodlouse

However advanced we become, the human body needs rest and sleep in order to function at a high level. And this will become even more critical as we travel into deep space. But when you’re trapped in an environment you can’t control – like a multi-billion-dollar sardine can heading to Mars – sleep is going to get difficult. Designed for physical and psychological comfort in inhospitable places, the Deep Sleep Cocoon is a self-contained microhabitat that mimics adaptive and protective structures in nature, including the exoskeleton of woodlice and cocoons spun by moths and caterpillars.

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At some point we have to leave Earth anyway

Over the next 500 million years the Sun will make biological life on Earth impossible. As its size and luminosity increase as it ages, our oceans will evaporate and surface temperatures will become unbearable. “Our only chance of long-term survival,” as Professor Stephen Hawking reminded us, “is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to reach out into space. If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe.”