The Black Squid Jacket was one of our earliest and most experimental pieces. It’s a fully waterproof outer shell that mimics one of nature’s most mesmerising innovations – the adaptive camouflage of the squid.

Over the last 500 million years they’ve evolved the ability to change their colour and appearance at high speed and with almost infinite variety to hide, attack, or communicate. We replicated elements of this biological survival mechanism using lasers, resin and over 2 billion disruptively-structured microscopic glass spheres. While it looks like metal or oil in dull light conditions, when exposed to bright light it instantly reflects every colour in the visible spectrum.

Ultimately we stopped making clothing out of glass as it lacked the durability we wanted. And this batch of jackets weren’t made available at the time because of imperfections in the material that meant it didn't perform well in extreme cold. But if you’re prepared to forgive its faults, visually it remains one of our most iconic pieces.