Fashion label KANGHYUK introduces its new and unique readymade Airbag Shrink bomber jacket to join its ongoing Fall/Winter 2020 roster. The seasonal capsule is entitled 'COLLECTION 8' and the brand continues to explore the balance that exists between material and the silhouette itself. The outerwear design is a progressive iteration of the familiar bomber jacket silhouette.
It is constructed in South Korea and utilizes the brand's signature industrial polyamide material with the nylon car airbag material as well. It is designed in a black colorway and boasts textures throughout the shell with a slightly washed element on the rubbed hemming and cuffs. Its crinkled design technique is seen throughout the entire structure and complemented with contrasting stitching details. It is complete with a cropped cut, short stand collar, and cut out detailing.
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What's Driving This Trend
- Airbag-material Clothing
- Opportunity for disruptively innovating protective clothing using airbag materials
- Mixed Materials Fashion
- Innovative opportunity to explore new combinations of fabrics in fashion design
- Texturized Outerwear
- Potential for disruption in outerwear market by incorporating unique textures and design techniques
Who This Affects Most
- Fashion Design
- Innovative opportunity for designers to utilize new materials in creating unique and protective clothing
- Protective Clothing
- New opportunity to create fashionable clothing that is also durable and protective
- Outerwear
- Innovative potential for disruption in the outerwear market by introducing new and unique design techniques and materials
