Arctic Optic Hooded Raincoat

Arctic Optic is a button-up hooded raincoat, featuring an op art lining by visual artist Studio Cosmogram. Its outer material is a technical recycled water-resistant gabardine in a luxuriously-sheeny black.

The coat's cut is a take on sophisticated utilitarianism. With its funnel neck buttoned up, it holds a subtle cocoon shape. Undone, it drapes and falls like a trench coat.

Arctic Optic's lining is based on a solargraph, a map of the sun's movement over the horizon of the Arctic archipelago, Svalbard. The graph was hand-painted in ink, then digitally layered with multiples of the graphs in different shades of grey, white, and blue. The layers were given different transparencies, creating an optical illusion of ice.

Made in London.

You can learn more about the making of the Arctic Optic Hooded Raincoat in our Creative Process Journal.

Fabric & Sustainability

Composition: Outer: 70% Seaqual & 30% recycled polyester. Lining: 100% recycled polyester.

The outer fabric is European-made, consisting of 70% Seaqual and 30% recycled polyester. Seaqull is a high-quality recycled polyester yarn containing recovered marine plastic (10%), with the remaining 90% being post-consumer rPET from land sources.

The coat's lining is rPET recycled polyester twill, sourced from 100% Global Recycled Standard (GRS)-accredited post-consumer plastic waste such as plastic bottles, diverted from landfill or reclaimed from the ocean. The inks used are also Oeko-Tex Class II-certified, meaning they are free of harmful chemicals and safe for skin-contact. The printing is done in London in a zero-to-landfill facility, using 100% renewable energy.

Despite its recycled origin, it should be noted polyester is a contributor to ocean microplastics - when washing your coat, we recommend using a Guppy Friend washing bag to capture the microparticles before they enter the water stream.

Production: Manufactured at a North London-based small-batch production studio. The pieces are made in studio by their talented seamstresses and cutters. It takes eight hours to cut and sew just one coat.

Packaging: Our products are shipped in 100% compostable mailers, which are both home and commercially compostable, once the shipping labels have been removed. Our soy-based ink stickers are also compostable.

Sizing

Model is 6'2, wearing size Small/Medium. We advise male customers to order one size larger than they usually wear.

Our measurements are taken in cm from the products laid flat, from seam to seam.

Men's Size Chart

Women's Size Chart

Care Instructions

Hand wash in cool water. Do not bleach. Hang to dry. Iron on low, inside out. Dry clean possible.

Shipping & Returns

Free UK shipping on orders over £100.
Free international shipping on orders over £200.
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We offer free returns on all UK orders. Please see our returns policy here.