{"id":103,"date":"2008-04-06T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/2008\/04\/06\/zegnasport-solar-jacket-zooms\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T12:00:13","slug":"zegnasport-solar-jacket-zooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/zegnasport-solar-jacket-zooms\/","title":{"rendered":"ZegnaSport Solar Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/zegna-solar-jacket11.jpg\" alt=\"zegna-solar-jacket1.jpg\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2007\/09\/30\/zegnas-solar-powered-jacket\/\">As promised in autumn,<\/a>\u00a0the Spring\/Summer 2008 ZegnaSport menswear collection dawns a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegna.com\/solar?lang=en\">\u00a0luxury solar jacket<\/a>. One of the first to market in sunlight harnessing textile inventions,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mensvogue.com\/magazine\/articles\/gift_guide2007_tech09\">Mens Vouge calls the new ZegnaSport solar jacket<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A marvel of eco-friendly efficiency, it resists the elements you can do without\u2014like wind and rain, &#8211;\u2014and uses the sun to power the digital devices you can&#8217;t be parted from. Solar panels mounted on the jacket&#8217;s neoprene collar soak up rays and then convert the light into energy&#8230;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not breaking news in the solar-textile field, because\u00a0\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.konarka.com\/news_and_events\/press_releases\/2005\/2_february\/0216_fiber.php\">2005 Konarka solar<\/a>\u00a0products partnered<!--more-->\u00a0with world class textile researchers.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/laptop_lg1.jpg\" alt=\"laptop_lg.jpg\" \/>And it makes me wonder&#8230;What is the future of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/catapult\/indepth\/s1435357.htm\">smart textiles<\/a>\u00a0and wearables? Will it be mixed with the latest findings in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurephysical.org\/pages\/content\/wearable\/links.html\">wearable computing<\/a>?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomimicry.net\/\">Biomimicry<\/a>\u00a0perhaps? What is ethical?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.noonsolar.com\/\">Vegetable tanned leather solar bags?<\/a>\u00a0Sustainability means different things to everyone in this industry.\u00a0In no time designers will have solar fabrics to add to the list of choices when sourcing eco-textiles for their collections. Lets hope the process of making these new inventions is both environmentally conscious in materials and socially responsible in manufacturing. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised in autumn,\u00a0the Spring\/Summer 2008 ZegnaSport menswear collection dawns a\u00a0luxury solar jacket. One of the first to market in sunlight harnessing textile inventions,\u00a0Mens Vouge calls the new ZegnaSport solar jacket: A marvel of eco-friendly efficiency, it resists the elements you can do without\u2014like wind and rain, &#8211;\u2014and uses the sun to power the digital [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/zegnasport-solar-jacket-zooms\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":11713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[94,106,75],"tags":[142,143,144,145,146,147,148],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zegna-solar-jacket1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}