WARMING STRIPES JACKET
The French Media channels BON POTE & THE GOOD GOODS have teamed up with ABOUT A WORKER to create the Warming Stripes Jacket, a statement piece to raise awareness on our current global warming issues. Fashion has always been seen a powerful tool for messages with socio-political significance. Fully made and designed in France this work jacket is based on the symbolic representation of climatologist Ed Hawkins.
The goal of this new workwear jacket is to communicate the concept of climate change in the simplest manner. Warming stripes have become a powerful symbol of climate change communication and are often used in education, media to raise awareness on climate transformation for 100 years.
HoW WAS THE WARMING STRIPES JACKET MADE ?
As an introduction to the concept, the Warming Stripes Jacket was produced in two unique pieces customized for Victoire Satto ( THE GOOD GOODS ‘s founder ) and Thomas Wagner ( BON POTE’s founder). It was made by different textile actors from France, who worked together as a collective on the project.
FINDING A PIECE OF FABRIC WITH FEAT.COOP : The fabric came from this fabric dead stocks company based in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region. Feat.coop collects unused existing rolls of fabric from France to resell them at an affordable price.We agreed on a cotton twill (a thick and resistant weave type fabric), mottled beige, with a heavy weight in order to obtain a structured fit and fall for the jacket. It was initially woven by Les Tissages de Charlieu.
CREATING A JACKET PATTERN WITH ABOUT A WORKER : ABOUT A WORKER design team then created the pattern by sizing their original WRKR jacket for Victoire Satto and Thomas Wagner at their studio in Paris.
PRINTING THE WARMING STRIPES WITH ATELIER AGILE : The warming stripes files were then sent for textile printing to Roubaix by Atelier Agile.
VISUALIZING THE WARMING STRIPES JACKET WITH STEVEN PASSARO : In order to place the stripes properly and perceive the evolution of the global warming temperature impact from one side to the other on the jacket, we asked the young fashion designer Steven Passaro to visualize the outcome by rendering the jacket in 3D.
PRODUCING THE JACKET WITH ABOUT A WORKER : Once the final textile was ready ABOUT A WORKER produced the two final jackets at their studio in Paris.
