First Look: Mackintosh and CP Company Reimagine the Goggle Coat in New Collaboration

"Both are made in Scotland with Mackintosh's most famous innovation, waterproofed cotton, with the inclusion of CP Company's equally recognizable goggles in the hood. The coats are handmade, with panels being sewn, attached and sealed in Mackintosh's Scottish factory in North Lanarkshire, where seams are coated in water repellent to provide protection from both wind and rain. The two styles, the longer goggle car coat and waist-length goggle jacket, come with raglan sleeves, hidden fastenings, and adjustable cuffs."

"In 1823, chemist Charles Macintosh bonded a rubber layer between two pieces of cotton to create the world's first successfully patented waterproof fabric. The resulting coat, the Mackintosh - or Mac as it became universally known - was adopted across Britain and proceeded the invention of the trench coat by Thomas Burberry in 1879, and Aquascutum's earlier iteration from around the middle of the 19 th century."

"Equally fascinated by material innovation as Charles Macintosh, Osti founded two companies, Chester Perry (later renamed CP Company) and Stone Island. But it was with CP that Osti really made his name, popularizing garment dyeing (the process of dyeing clothes, not just fabrics, which gave a uniquely used, washed appearance) as well as the concept of coating yarn (linens and wools) in rubber to make it waterproof - in a sense evolving Macintosh's original idea."

Mackintosh and CP Company released two handmade Scottish outerwear styles that merge Mackintosh's waterproofed cotton with CP Company's hood-integrated goggles. Seams are sewn, attached and sealed in Mackintosh's North Lanarkshire factory and coated in water repellent to protect against wind and rain. The collection includes a longer goggle car coat and a waist-length goggle jacket featuring raglan sleeves, hidden fastenings, and adjustable cuffs. Charles Macintosh invented bonded rubber-cotton waterproof fabric in 1823, creating the Mackintosh coat. Massimo Osti later advanced garment dyeing and rubber-coated yarn techniques with Chester Perry/CP Company and Stone Island.

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