FABRIC: PANGAIA
Regions: London and New York
Fabric Name:
Pangaia tee-shirt
Origin:
Cotton and seaweed
Who made our fabric:
Pangaia, USA and UK
What makes this so special:
PANGAIA operates on a direct-to-consumer model and focuses on materials science. Their goal is to introduce innovative textile solutions, partnerships, and patents to the world through everyday lifestyle products. The technologies they use are all geared towards addressing environmental issues in the fashion, apparel, and nature industries. To this end, they have developed a range of colorful clothing items, which they produce using a diverse range of feedstocks, including seaweed, wildflowers, and agricultural waste, which they blend with organic cotton to create unique and sustainable fashion products.
The tee-shirt in our collection is a combination of seaweed, organic cotton with “a touch of peppermint.”
Pangaia is a global collective of one heart and many hands - scientists, technologists, designers - joining forces to accomplish together what cannot be accomplished alone.
“We just think that there’s this exciting world out there that also has all different kinds of properties—in terms of function and performance—that we just haven’t even fully investigated.”
— Amanda Parkes / PANGAIA
Amanda Parkes
Dr. Amanda Parkes, the Chief Innovation Officer of PANGAIA. Parkes comes to the sustainable fashion industry with an excitement to merge the fields of engineering and technology with style and color. With PANGAIA, she strikes this precise balance: using formulaic textile technology while maintaining clean, hip branding. PANGAIA focuses on creating products using materials of abundance in the ecosystem—parts that generally are considered “waste,” or “excess”—and a text block itemizing the supplies and materials used in engineering labels each article of clothing. Parkes explains that PANGAIA aims to “make fashion for a reason, not a season,” meaning that instead of trying to release clothing on a timeline, PANGAIA works to better its current products, building its line as material upgrades become available. As Parkes puts it, PANGAIA works around the “science of feel,” sharing with ATW80F in an interview: “We’ve been really crafting the feel—I call it the science of feel—of the textile. So how do you give something that sense of quality in terms of the material development? I think that’s something that I really love [about PANGAIA]. It has both something that’s a very physical engineering quality, as well as something that’s quite visceral and intangible. It’s almost a psychological way—the way that we feel in our clothes, this idea of enclothed cognition.” Moving forward, Parkes and PANGAIA plan to continue questioning which technologies will switch us from a “place of scarcity” to one of abundance, all while preserving the “enclothed cognition” that surrounds the brand’s work.