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Vollebak’s new inclement-weatherproof, 100-year jacket will last far longer than the person wearing it

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Vollebak’s new ultimate 100-year jacket is a lot like a bullet-proof vest. It’s something that’s good to wear, but you never hope to be caught in the situation it was designed for. The jacket is strong, resilient, and waterproof enough to survive a thunderstorm, a blizzard in the tundras, or even the kind of weather you’d expect on top of Mt. Everest during the winter-solstice. It’s literally designed to last longer than the person wearing it, and promises to serve not one, but multiple lifetimes. In a world of fast-fashion, Vollebak’s 100-year jacket is the most future-proof urban clothing made.

This jacket falls well within Vollebak’s mission statement, which is to make the most unheard of, absurdly innovative clothing known to man… from apparel made of graphene, to hoodies of carbon-fiber, to even iridescent jackets made to mimic squid-skin. Designed to last well into the 2100s, the 100-year jacket from Vollebak comes made from 3-layers of c-change® membrane, woven together at a fabric mill in Switzerland. Designed for literally the harshest weather conditions on earth, the jacket comes with a 43,000mm waterproof rating (the highest of any fabric) and even surpasses every fabric abrasion test. Even the stitching (which is often the most vulnerable part of any clothing) comes with circular bonded bartacks reinforcing the seams to prevent water from seeping in.

You’d be right in assuming that a jacket that can take 43,000 millimeters of water (without letting a drop pass through) would be uncomfortable and unbreathable, but Vollebak says the c-change® fabric construction has a nifty way of adjusting the body temperature based on external temperature. The fabric’s unique construction allows it to remain breathable to the skin. In the cold, the membrane closes tight to retain internal body heat while trapping the cold outside, but in hotter conditions, the c-change® membrane allows body heat and sweat to pass through from the inside, while keeping any external water from penetrating in… much like an umbrella’s fabric that blocks water one-way. The jacket also comes with water-proof zipper-lined pockets on the outside for carrying belongings, along with openable armpit-vents to dump out excess heat when the mercury begins rising. A high-collar helps protect your face, while a hoodie covers your head efficiently even in the harshest of downpours, blizzards, or near-apocalyptic weather… for a comfortable 100 years.

Designer: Vollebak

Mars or Earth, Vollebak’s latest cocoon inspired jacket lulls you to sleep anywhere!

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Recently Volleback launched their Indestructible Puffer, and it quite nearly blew our minds. Fast forward to December, and they’ve just introduced another mindboggling invention two days ago! Curious? Yeah me too. Volleback’s latest release has been baptized ‘The Deep Sleep Cocoon’. The Deep Sleep Cocoon is a jacket designed to aid you in sleeping almost anywhere, on Earth and off Earth. You heard that right! Drawing inspiration from the protective exoskeleton of the woodlouse and the cocoons weaved by caterpillars, The Deep Sleep Cocoon is a self-contained microhabitat that will lull you to sleep whether you’re on a plane journey on Earth or on a space shuttle to Mars.

Sleep is something we take for granted here on Earth. With our cushy beds, fluffy pillows and controllable artificial lighting, we can be right in the middle of a deep snooze session within minutes! However in a space shuttle rocketing away in another galaxy, our surrounding environment is susceptible to cabin crew and scientific protocols, and control over light, sound, and temperature is impossible. Legends like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin must have suffered from this first hand. Taking cue from this dilemma, Vollebak designed the Deep Sleep Cocoon to combat every aspect of this situation.

The star of the jacket is its hood! Mimicking a visor on a space helmet, the hood has been crafted from five different segments, which can be conveniently folded over your face, forming a protective cocoon and allowing you to sleep peacefully. Equipped with four magnets, the hood effortlessly snaps into place, holding itself around your head without any support. Soft and breathable, the hood functions as a blacked-out visor, ensuring that no one can see in, but you can easily see everything around you. You can use your smartphone or laptop even with the visor covering your face!

Created from an advanced three-layer Swiss fabric, the Deep Sleep Cocoon is waterproof and windproof as well as abrasion-resistant! Power-packed with five handy pockets and a two-way front zipper, Vollebak sealed the deal with metal adjusters to tighten the jacket and Cordura cord adjusters. Though regular commute to Mars and other galaxies is still a far off reality, for the time being, the Deep Sleep Cocoon is perfect for catching some shut-eye on your next overnight flight! Snuggle into the cocoon-like jacket, and shut out the world!

Designer: Vollebak

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15x stronger than steel, this puffer jacket is almost indestructible!

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Winter’s around the corner, and it’s time to bring out the trusty puffer jackets! Except this time, Vollebak’s coming out with one of its own, right in time for winter! And like everything Vollebak does, you can except this puffer to be the most mind-blowing of it’s kind. Vollebak’s ‘Indestructible Puffer’ is exactly what its name says it is. And the puffer owes its indestructibility to the ‘single strongest fiber known to man’, Dyneema. For all the science enthusiasts “It’s an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene that combines extreme strength with very low weight.”

Dyneema is said to be 15x stronger than steel. In fact, the material is so badass that it was used in body armor, anti-ballistic vehicle armor, mooring systems for giant container ships, and in the ropes used to tie down oil rigs in the chaotic seas. The powerful mooring lines broke the machines that were testing them, and the body armor deflected bullets from a Kalashnikov. But Vollebak has made one thing clear; the puffer can’t actually stop bullets (I mean it’s indestructible, not Batman’s suit). However, the things this puffer can do are pretty impressive!

If you’re ever headed to the coldest place on Earth, this jacket’s got to be in your hand luggage. The Indestructible Puffer can withstand temperatures as low as 140 degrees Fahrenheit. In fact, the cold only titillates the puffer. As the temperature drops, the jacket goes into Hulk mode, gaining strength as it gets colder.

Attack the puffer with a knife, drag it along the sharpest rock, basically throw it into the depths of the most lethal jungle, and the jacket can survive any blunt-force traumas, tearing, shearing and wearing down. Unlike your average puffer jackets, it won’t slit away with its feather flying off. This is the kind of jacket that will last for decades, something you can pass down generations and gift to your grandkids!

Instead of using down from ducks, Vollebak opted for the recycling route. They utilized plastic bottles, transforming them into insulating synthetic fibers. Power-packed with around 30 half-liter recycled bottles, each Indestructible Puffer promises to keep you warm in the iciest of situations. Styled with a two-way front zipper, fleece-lined pockets, and two invisible chest pockets, the puffer reaches another level of heavy-duty with military-grade wrist belt tapes, a storm flap, and Cordura-built adjusters. Inspired by the humble cockroach, which survived even what the Dinosaurs could not, Vollebak’s Indestructible Puffer is the guardian angel you didn’t even you could have on your next high stakes outdoor adventure!

Designer: Vollebak

Vollebak’s new 100% biodegradable T-Shirt is made from plants and algae!

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Another new month, another new experimental garment from the inimitable creative apparel powerhouse that is VolleBak… except this time they haven’t made a hoodie that glows, or can be worn on Mars, or is made from graphene or carbon fiber. This time they’ve created a garment that doesn’t consciously last thousands of years, but rather, turns into worm-food when you’re done wearing it. VolleBak’s bizzarely eco-friendly shirt uses a never-seen-before one-of-a-kind yarn made from pulped eucalyptus, spruce, and beech, along with a print that’s created using the world’s most abundant flora… algae!

“The only thing different about this T-shirt is that it grew in soil and water, and that’s where it’s designed to end up too. All you need to do is remember to compost it at the end of its life. Here it will biodegrade with them, turn into soil, and help new plants to grow,” explains Vollebak co-founder, Steve Tidball. The yarn is produced using wood-pulp from sustainably managed forests, while the green print on it is derived from algae grown in a bioreactor, before being passed through a filter and dried to form a powder that’s turned into ink. Since algae can’t survive outside water, the print technically isn’t ‘living’, and will fade over time like a patina, making each shirt unique. When you’re done wearing the shirt, just bury it underground and it completely biodegrades in 12 weeks, turning into compost that can then grow new trees. Sustainable fashion, y’all!

Designer: VolleBak

VolleBak’s anti-abrasion tee shirt is made from real carbon fiber

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I assume somewhere in VolleBak’s headquarters lies a massive whiteboard with the words “WHY NOT” scrawled on it, because if the past few months have been any indication, the company’s product launches have been getting progressively stranger but at the same time, exciting just because we’re witnessing one of the most avant-garde movements in apparel and fashion design.

After making kevlar, iridescent, and graphene jackets, VolleBak’s latest uses a material found exclusively in jet engines, missile housings, and supercars. I’m talking about Carbon Fiber, the material that’s lighter than aluminum and stronger than steel. VolleBak’s Carbon Fiber shirt comes with a price tag of $110 which seems pretty reasonable considering it comes made with woven strands of carbon fiber in it. Designed to be worn close to the skin, the material is breathable, lightweight, and wicks moisture incredibly well.

If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering why (and also how) would VolleBak integrate carbon fibers into fashion. Carbon Fiber is known for its incredible strength, which lends its properties to the shirt, making it practically abrasion-proof. Designed to last much longer than any traditional tee shirt, even in the most demanding of scenarios, the Carbon Fiber tee shirt will not scuff, rip, shred, or tear if you accidentally fall off a bike or slip while trekking or bump your shoulder against a tree’s rough bark. In extension, the fabric even protects your skin, preventing damage to itself as well as you. The fabric itself comes made from a yarn that contains thousands of intertwined individual carbon fibers. While you’d expect these fibers to be incredibly tough, the fabric also comprises 36% elastane, giving it strength but also a 4-way stretch, making the VolleBak Carbon Fiber Tee look like just about any other tee shirt you’ve seen, but behave unlike any other. Why not, eh?

Designer: VolleBak

Graphene-coated clothing exists and we’re finally in the future

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Part jacket, part science experiment, this is perhaps Vollebak’s most ambitious project yet… and that’s after making jackets that can last on Mars, and apparel that absorbs light and glows in the dark. Graphene is one of science’s most wondrous materials. It’s incredibly light yet unbelievably tough, and consists of literally a single layer of carbon atoms bound together in their honeycomb structure. In theory, graphene apparel could one day make humans bulletproof, and the material has the ability to store infinite amounts of thermal energy. It also conducts electricity, repels bacteria, and dissipates your body’s excess humidity. Apart from the fact that it’s incredibly hard to come by in large quantities, it’s perhaps the perfect material for apparel. So in true VolleBak fashion, the adventure-clothing company managed to actually produce a series of these Graphene Jackets.

The Graphene Jacket from VolleBak is two-sided, with one being coated with the wonder-material, and the other being super-stretch super-strength nylon. The reversible jacket can be worn both ways, giving it the ability to absorb and handle heat in unusual ways. According to physicists at the Max Planck Institute, graphene has the ability to store unlimited amounts of heat, making the jacket practically a radiator that you can wear in the cold. When the graphene-coated part of the jacket faces outwards, it absorbs any thermal energy it is exposed to (be it anything from the sun to a nearby fireplace). Reverse the jacket to face the graphene layer inwards (towards your skin), and the jacket’s warmth radiates to your body, keeping you warm for long periods of time. Along with heat, graphene is a brilliant conductor of electricity too, and in most of VolleBak’s prototype tests, they could literally light a bulb by passing current through the jacket, but the final iteration of the jacket comes with an increased resistance to electricity, making it safe for humans to wear.

The Graphene Jacket, much like most of Volleback’s outdoor gear, is both waterproof and breathable. The graphene lining (I really am saying graphene a lot, aren’t I?) lowers humidity on your epidermis, making you perspire less, and the super-material even prevents bacterial-growth, so in theory, the jacket never smells or grows musty, no matter how much you wear it. As well as being bacteriostatic, the graphene membrane is also known to be hypoallergenic, anti-static, and is certified as non-toxic.

Graphene, like I mentioned earlier, is an incredibly tough and expensive material to come by, which is why the jacket exists only as a super-limited edition. In fact, the material is so expensive, all linings and pockets were laser-cut to prevent material wastage caused by cutting, trimming, and stitching seams into the clothing. The jacket, for now, comprises just a single-cell layer of graphene, which isn’t enough to stop bullets, but is more than capable of resisting wear and tear, and has passed all of VolleBak’s rigorous abrasion and puncture tests. Poised to be the future of more than just clothing, graphene holds the potential to transform almost every industry from space travel to electronics. I mean, after all it’s the only material to have its own Nobel Prize.

Designer: VolleBak

This iridescent squid-ink jacket turns 500 million years of evolution into fashion!

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Mimicking the squid’s color-shifting properties, brought about by years upon years of evolution, VolleBak’s Squid Ink jacket too has the power to transform in color with relation to its light source. Designed with a pigment that comprises as many as 2 billion disruptively-structured microscopic glass spheres, Vollebak’s iridescent jacket isn’t for camouflage… it’s for standing out. Under dim, dull light conditions, the jacket appears dull and black, but in the presence of a harsh light, the jacket shimmers up with colors across the spectrum, looking quite like the color separation you’d see on a bubble, or a puddle of petroleum in the sun.

Like all of VolleBak’s jackets, the Squid Ink jacket is a solid piece of apparel, designed perfectly for its use case. Made to be a great skiing and snowboarding jacket, the product is waterproof and wind-resistant, keeping you dry and toasty inside while it’s snowing or raining out. While the jacket is a great, functional piece of clothing, its highlight (like VolleBak’s Solar Charged Jacket), is its incredible material-engineering. Designed to mimic the camouflaging properties of a squid’s skin (which allows it to hide from its prey), the jacket reverses the use case, by relying on reflective spheres to actually increase visibility, making you almost glow in your surroundings, with a mesmeric rainbow of shimmering colors! Is it also a coincidence that we’re in Pride Month?? Maybe not!

Designer: VolleBak

VolleBak’s superior solar-charged glowing jacket gives you increased visibility

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When VolleBak claims to have made their most advanced jacket yet, it isn’t hyperbole. It’s literally worth taking a closer look at because VolleBak doesn’t mess around. They’ve invented some of the most revolutionary jackets of our time, including a jacket so incredibly durable that it can be worn on Mars.

Meet the Solar Charged Jacket, the piece of apparel that VolleBak claims is their most advanced product yet. Named as TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2018 and as Sports Gear of the Year by WIRED, the Solar Charged Jacket is a highly light-sensitive and responsive jacket that acts as a windbreaker 24 hours a day, but when brought into a low-light setting, shines with enough intensity to make its wearer completely visible in darkness. Designed ideally for bikers, joggers, and anyone who may need high-visibility at night, the Solar Charged Jacket has a special phosphorescent coating that can capture any light, be it from your smartphone’s flash to the sun, and release it in the dark for as long as 12 whole hours.

Unlike most jackets that come with reflective strips or patches, VolleBak’s entire jacket is completely luminous, and even comes with its own glowing hood, giving you the dual advantage of protection from the elements, and high visibility. The Solar Charged Jacket comes constructed from a 3-layer stretchable, waterproof, and breathable fabric, and does a remarkably clever job of layering the phosphorescent layer under a transparent waterproof membrane, making the jacket easily washable without any danger of the jacket losing its glow properties. Use it while riding a bike, taking a jog, or just get creative by using a flashlight to write messages in light on your jacket!

Designer: VolleBak

You can wear this hoodie on Mars

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Let’s recap what happened in the video above. The hoodie was dragged mercilessly through gravel for over an hour, then battered by the ocean by being tied to the back of a motorboat, and to dry it off, a blow-torch was involved. Now I can’t think of anything that could withstand such treatment (no, not even the Nokia 3310)… but Vollebak’s 100 Year Hoodie can, and will continuously brave the elements and survive.

The 100 Year Hoodie was named that way for a reason. Built with a Kevlar weave, the jacket will literally be with you all your life, and probably all your child’s life too. Made with space and military grade materials, found in space suits and war-armor, the jacket can withstand temperatures on Mars, 2000 washes, and over a 100 accidents (life safely, the jacket doesn’t guarantee to protect you!)

Oh, and it’s probably one of the only clothes that ages gracefully with time, like a brass ornament, or a leather wearable, looking slightly aged after years of wearing, but with absolutely no sign of damaging, or giving up!

Designer: Vollebak

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