We have seen Nike’s jacket that inflates and deflates according to need, Thermore’s jacket that became a blank canvas to paint on, and adidas’ jacket designed to keep athletes warm. To this list of jackets we’ve added to our wishlist comes a fourth one — impossible to wear, yet something we’d love to hang by the entrance of our home.
We’re talking about Tom Waugh’s Puffer Jacket.
Tom Waugh is not a fashion designer; he is an artist, specifically a sculptor, who graduated with top honors in Stone Sculpture and Architectural Carving from the City and Guilds of London Art School.
His material of choice is marble, which he is able to shape at will, creating works that are deeply rooted in contemporaneity and generating a short circuit between material and subject.
On one side there is marble, evoking Neoclassicism, Canova, and Sartori; on the other, everyday objects: traffic cones, cutlery, pills, toothpaste tubes.
These are the subjects Tom Waugh focuses on, bringing marble to a more accessible level, less lofty and poetic.
In Waugh’s body of work come, last but not least, two versions of the Puffer Jacket which, when hung on the wall with every fold perfectly in place, are easily mistaken for real ones.
Just don’t get the idea of trying them on — they might leave a rather impressive hole in the floor.
