Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer, the creators of Coperni, are used to imagining pieces, each more surprising than the last.
In 2023, they created a bag made from a meteorite that fell from the Moon.
This year, during its fall-winter 2024 show, presented at Paris Fashion Week on March 4, Coperni presented the Air Swipe Bag, or the bag made of 99% air.
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The remaining 1% is made of glass which takes the shape of the brand's emblematic Swipe Bag.
Or rather foam glass: not just any foam glass, however, since it is silica airgel, a kind of gel where the liquid component is replaced by gas, making it both solid to the touch but lick... Like air.
The Coperni bag actually weighs 33 grams, the weight of a tablespoon of rice.
The air-based Coperni bag was presented during the brand's fall-winter 2024 show.
(Paris, March 4, 2024.) Imaxtree
The piece was developed by Professor Ioannis Michaloudis, a specialist in the fusion of art and science.
Its development, in terms of research and development, took more than two months.
Contrary to what its appearance and composition suggest, the bag is neither cloudy nor soft, it is even quite solid.
It can withstand pressure of 4000 times its weight, and extreme heat, up to 1200 degrees Celsius.
As the engineer says in a video by Lucien Pagès, press officer, the bag is far from being ephemeral: “It can even last longer than life.”
Also read: From the Moon to the Earth: the fascinating Coperni meteorite bag sold for 40,000 euros
Coperni, head in the stars
That Coperni sounds like Copernicus is no coincidence.
The 17th century astronomer who originated heliocentrism gave his name to the brand.
Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer are lovers of space, its planets, its mysteries.
The airgel used for this bag is also a nanomaterial used by NASA to capture stardust (yes, just that).
Coperni's Air Swipe is the largest object ever made with this space technology material.
Proof that the two French people, who constantly revisit their Swipe Bag, sometimes in blown glass, sometimes in gold, are creators in tune with the times.