Fashion and technology come together in the form of a 70s-inspired leather jacket by Coperni x Transparent that has to be heard to be believed.

Parisian ready-to-wear fashion brand Coperni openly wears an affinity for emblems of yesterday’s youth. Take for example the label’s CD-PLAYER Swipe Bag revealed late last year, a design referencing that all too brief period when digital innovations had yet to completely define the populace’s still predominately analog lifestyle. Their newest creation ? the Coperni x Transparent Speaker Jacket Blasts Nostalgia ? turns up the volume of nostalgia to another level.

Revealed during the Paris Fashion Week, the avant-garde 70s-era inspired leather jacket was conceived by Coperni’s co-founders Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant only two months ahead of the label’s runway show. Transparent, a Swedish sound company known for its minimalist see-though high-fi speakers, was earmarked as a source of inspiration for Coperni’s SS24 collection, inspiring the co-founders to reach out to the audio brand with the offer to work together to turn a mood into the fashion label’s most captivating piece. Coperni showcased their Spring/Summer collection, including the Coperni x Transparent Speaker Jacket, within IRCAM, the music and technology research center housed within the Centre Pompidou.
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