Vollebak Ltd

Since our launch five years ago, we’ve won innovation awards from TIME, WIRED and Fast Company and been compared to Tesla and elBulli for our radical commitment to what comes next. We’ve always believed that sharing our thinking openly will help us move faster. So if you’d like to hear the full story behind the Vollebak adventure, and where we’re headed in the future, we laid out our entire blueprint for the next 100 years in this podcast with Om Malik. While clothes today still do what they’ve been doing for the last 50,000 years, keeping you warm, dry and cool, we’re on the edge of a revolution. Over the next 10 to 100 years clothes are going to be used to enhance our strength and sensory perception. They will help us become faster, more intelligent, and live longer. So we’re starting work on the next 50,000 years of clothing. Here are a few of our favourites so far. We created the world’s first Graphene Jacket using the only material in the world with a Nobel Prize, and a pair of 100 Year Pants built to withstand fire, nature, water, and the rest of this century. We made the two toughest t shirts on Earth: our Carbon Fibre T Shirt is engineered with 120 metres of carbon fibre normally found in jet engines and supercars, while our Ceramic T Shirt is embedded with the same ceramic technology as the International Space Station. We built a Full Metal Jacket out of more than 11km of copper – the future building block for intelligent, disease-resistant clothing – and created a Deep Sleep Cocoon for the first missions to Mars. Our Planet Earth Shirts are designed for all 510 million square kilometres on the surface of Earth, while our Plant and Algae T Shirt is grown in forests and bioreactors and turns into worm food at the end of its life. Every month we launch clothing concepts that have never been seen or attempted before. And while quantum leaps in technology are required for a lot of our gear, and every piece takes between one and five years to make, our kit can sell out fast – sometimes in days, or even hours. So you can sign up for advance access to all our new launches here.