https://mariannecaroline.com/tags/outerwear/Recent content in Outerwear on Marianne CarolineHugoen-usMon, 19 Oct 2026 03:14:34 +0000https://mariannecaroline.com/articles/wood-fibre-windbreaker-wins-place-on-time-inventions-list/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:14:34 +0000https://mariannecaroline.com/articles/wood-fibre-windbreaker-wins-place-on-time-inventions-list/<h2 id="a-jacket-built-from-trees-rather-than-petroleum">A jacket built from trees rather than petroleum</h2> <p>Functional outerwear has long been one of fashion&rsquo;s stubbornest problems. Rain shells, windbreakers and packable jackets are typically built on polyester or polyamide shells, held together with membranes and finished with chemical treatments that keep wind and water out. The German label Armedangels set out to test whether that formula could be broken, and the result has now been recognised on an international stage: its 100 per cent Tencel Lyocell windbreaker has been named on TIME&rsquo;s Best Inventions 2026 list in the outerwear category.</p>