Samsung C&T Hartist Launches Coat Featuring 'Air Vest' Technology

Introducing a New Concept Outerwear: Handmade Wool Coat with Built-in Gonggi Play Vest Injection

[Asia Economy Reporter Eunmo Koo] HATIST, the universal fashion brand of Samsung C&T Fashion Division, announced on the 24th that it has launched the ‘Air Vest with Coat,’ which combines its best-selling handmade wool coat with the inflatable vest ‘Heogi’.

The Air Vest with Coat applies universal fashion designed to be comfortably worn by wheelchair users, considering their physical characteristics. It eliminates unnecessary parts and preserves essential ones, featuring hidden details without visible differentiation, allowing anyone to enjoy comfortable fashion regardless of disability.

HATIST collaborated with the social venture ‘Dolbom Dream’ to release a handmade Glencheck wool coat incorporating the inflatable vest Heogi, which enhances warmth by using air instead of animal fur.

The padding filling inside the coat acts as a barrier with air layers in the fur, blocking external air penetration and preventing internal air leakage to increase warmth. Heogi raises warmth environmentally by injecting air instead of animal fur, based on the same principle as insulated glass windows with multiple air layers.

Especially this winter, the Air Vest with Coat combines an eco-friendly vest that enhances warmth with air layers and a handmade wool coat with an action band for increased mobility, offering a special outerwear experience not only for people with disabilities but also for those without.

The Air Vest with Coat is designed with separate buttons inside the coat to connect button loops on the inflatable vest Heogi. The chic monotone luxurious Glencheck wool coat features a trendy short length and soft wearing comfort. The action band, made by overlaying stretchy fabric on the sleeve and back panel joints, helps facilitate upper body movement.

Additionally, Heogi provides deep pressure effects that help psychological stability for children with developmental disabilities. When children with developmental disabilities show anxiety symptoms during treatment, caregivers soothe them by holding them tightly. Wearing Heogi offers a pressure effect similar to being hugged, providing psychological comfort to these children. Heogi was developed and launched over 1 year and 4 months with the participation of over 1,000 stakeholders including parents of children with developmental disabilities and treatment institutions, and won the grand prize at the 2019 KAIST Startup Competition.

Choi Myung-gu, Group Head of HATIST, said, “We have introduced a new concept coat to raise awareness of the brand’s pursuit of universal fashion and to help people with disabilities have a warm winter.”

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