coperni is Taking a Swipe at the Stars
They’ve given their classic Swipe Bag a functional, update.
Fall/Winter Ready-To-Wear runway shows are coming at us at a breathtakingly expeditious rate. And though we are still sifting through all the photos and videos, parsing apart motifs and fawning over our favourite looks; coperni has us completely sidetracked.
source: @coperni on Instagram
This swirling cloud of mist, sculpted into the shape of a perfect little handbag, is not AI-generated. It isn’t a product of any airbending, either. It is a bag; coperni’s very corporeal Air Swipe Bag.
Prior to their F/W runway show on March 4th, the French brand hard-launched what has to be the statement bag of the last decade. And how better to announce the hoverboard of bags, than in an appropriately modern fashion: with a reel and carrousel post on Instagram. The approach felt almost too casual for such a paradigm-shifting achievement of design and product development, carried by the gravitas of the coperni brand name and their reputation for ceaseless innovation.
(I suppose they could have tried a hologram. I genuinely believe that coperni possesses the technological acumen to conjure one up for a handbag release.)
source: @coperni on Instagram
Diaphanous and ethereal, the purse is as much a science experiment as it is an updated version of an existing coperni design. Weighing in at a whopping 33 grams, the Air Swipe Bag is composed of 99% air and 1% “glass.” The “glass” in question is actually a nanomaterial silica gel developed by Professor Ioannis Michaloudis at NASA. Although delicate, it is not fragile: the gel can withstand extreme heat of up to 1200ºC and pressure of 4000 times its weight. This makes it particularly indispensable to NASA, who use the material to “capture stardust.”
The Air Swipe Bag is the largest item to have been made from the nanomaterial gel. It certainly is a glowing endorsement of the NASA R&D department, and looks like it was plucked straight out of a sci-fi movie. Which tracks, because coperni’s Fall/Winter collection was an homage to the sci-fi genre: dresses resembling flying saucers, shoes of outlandish shapes, planetary ring embellishments, and fabrics which evoke images of the stars and sky; set against a towering obelisk flashing intermittently throughout the show, and soundtracked by the eerie score from Encounters of the Third Kind.
While the conversation should theoretically revolve around the runway show, a space opera rife with coperni’s signature futuristic style and no shortage of sartorial ultramodernism; it feels more like the accessory to the accessory of the hour.
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