The Coperni house, co-directed by Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer, has the gift of making people talk about it. Both through her impressive catwalk designs, like the time a liquid was sprayed on Bella Hadid’s naked body before transforming into a dress, and through her cult bag, the Swipe Bag. It reinvents itself from season to season, sometimes in blown glass, sometimes in a piece of meteorite. But now designers passionate about new technologies are innovating again by presenting an airgel version. But kesaco ?
This cloud-like bag from Coperni is made of 99% air and 1% silica
NASA originally used this material to capture stardust. Poetic, right? Sure, but is it for scientific purposes, you ask. This nanomaterial is made up of 99% air and the rest of silica, making it the lightest on the planet. To date, it is the material with the lowest density in the world. So that this new Coperni airgel Swipe Bag weighs only 33 grams empty, and we owe it to Professor Ioannis Michaloudis. Airgel is often presented as “ the glass of the future » because it can withstand extreme temperatures (up to 1,200° Celsius) and a pressure equal to 4,000 times its weight. Light as a cloud, but resistant as a rock: a paradox given that fashion loves them so much! In short, it is the perfect bag for a space trip. But what to wear to match it?
For the record, this is not the first time that fashion has taken possession of this ethereal material since the jewelry house Boucheron had already cut a jewel there in July 2020: a necklace called “ Drop of heaven “. Further proof that space is becoming the new frontier of luxury, both as a destination and as a source of inspiration and technological prowess.
What to remember about the very spacey Coperni autumn-winter 2024-2025 show by Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant?
Featured on Instagram on March 4, 2024, this magnetic airgel bag was perfect teaser to the new Coperni autumn winter 2024-2025 collection which showed on the same day as part of Paris Fashion Week.
There are many body jackets (black blazer style for the opening look, then grey, biker jackets, trench coats, parkas) that reinforce the trend no pants which have been on the podiums for several seasons now. Several immaculate white silhouettes follow one another, playing with opacity games as if imagine a work uniform of the future in a society where transparency reigns. The fur then falls out, in a coat that covers from head to toe Mafia wife space, or at the waist as a belt around an office look somewhere between futuristic and primitive (it must be cold in space, let’s see!). Then jeans get in the way of everything, before ponchos made from mesh strips come in and get in the way without getting snagged.
A dress, then a skirt, like a silver survival blanket, give light to the collection which gives way to dresses with dripping sleeves, in lurex knit, or iridescent sequins. After a few looks stitched with metal rivets like moon craters, the final dresses consisted of ultra-short skirts as puffy as Saturn’s ring in orbit. An even more evident vision in the two nightgowns with fur rings of the last two looks. Because we tell you that space is everything Mood tables of fashion!
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