CigaretteJacket

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles on July 2, 2005

Another interesting and stylish hightech fashion product from grado zero espace: a jacket that is made from leather and cigarette paper. So, if smoking is not good, these jackets are:

"Moreover an ulterior material has been associated to the paper-skin binomial: a shape memory polymers membrane capables to give to the multilayer material an unusual impermeability together with the introduction of some temperature control, in feedback with body's heat, which allows a good perspiration when the body's heat is high and, on the contrary, creates a barrier to the cold and the moisture when temperature is lowered under certain predetermined and programmable limits. This goal has allowed a use of cigarette-paper that ennobles the scopes for which it has been conceived, in a time which it is clear that smoking is bad."