Performance Jacket made for the Milanese cityscape
2022
In the project, ‘Hyperfunction: Functional Fashion for Modern Urbanites,’ I created a jacket that materialized the observational research on human behavior that I conducted within the metropolitan area of Milan. This project was completed during my residency in the Fashion-Tech Alliance program. Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, I was placed under the supervision of Pangaia Grado Zero (PGZ) to complete Hyperfunction, a project that embodied the themes and principles of the fashion-tech sector. The research and development done during this period culminated in my master's thesis work in Integrated Product Design at Politecnico di Milano.
The Hyperfunction Jacket
Over the course of several months, observation-based research was conducted on the urban population of Milan. Combined with market and literature-based research, the need for an elegant, yet function-based garment for modern urbanites emerged.
Embracing the technological and material possibilities presented by Pangaia Grado Zero, the Hyperfunction jacket was born for performance, function, and protection from the ever changing urban landscape. It's a water-proof, multi-pocket system that was built from Italian textiles.