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Nicola Formichetti’s New Label Will Involve Solar Power

Nicola Formichetti.
Nicola Formichetti. Photo: Eric Ryan/2011 Eric Ryan

Nicola Formichetti is working on a new label, titled simply “Formichetti,” that he plans to launch in an online-only format sometime in 2013. He tells WWD that he wants to make clothes that could use solar power to charge the wearer’s phone, or mold to the wearer’s body without the need for a zipper. “We’ve been working with the same fabrics, the same techniques for hundreds of years. That’s all great, but we need something new,” he says. Like … jet packs? Definitely jet packs.

Formichetti’s New Label Will Involve Solar Power