Nowadays everything must go fast. To travel, we choose a destination on the Internet, book our tickets online, select our accommodation Airbnb, organize our Uber transfers, explore the sites to visit, book restaurants, and all this in just a few clicks.
A few things remained to be simplified though regarding luggage: packing and weight reduction.
ICone brings the solution by simplifying clothes to save time. A single IC garment can give you 4 different looks and up to 20 with only 2 basic accessories.
We are launching a line of clothes with an innovative concept, and simplify the way we dress. Minimalism is the key word.
Save time, money, and reduce pollution. Do you know that The textile industry is one of the most pollutants releasing industries of the world. Surveys show that nearly five percent of all landfill space is consumed by textile waste. Besides, 20 % of all fresh water pollution is made by textile treatment and dyeing. Source: Fibre2Fashion
Many other clothes and accessories are in projects and will follow quickly once this KICkstarter project has been launched.
ICone is the result of a long research for innovative and original solutions, and a meticulous work on the patterns to create a perfectly reversible and returnable garment. The seams on the shoulders are perfectly centered so that ICone is extremely comfortable and fitted on one side as on the other. ICone, perfectly fits men and women alike.
Imagine having a meeting in the afternoon, and needing to meet people again at night, but not having the time to go home and change. Or being in any situation and wanting to look different at one point but not having a chance to switch clothes. ICone is undoubtedly the solution
An extended weekend opportunity, the chance to escape for a romantic trip with a lot of beautiful pictures. Thank ICone, you will not have the same outfit on all the pictures. So many possible combinations, a real treat just to reverse your garment for a new photo session. Who will know?
That can happen to anyone of us. You’re having lunch and accidentally stain yourself. No other clothe at the office. You are going to spend the whole afternoon with all your colleagues making fun of you. Worst, in front of this little chick who recently started in the company and whom you like quite a bit. No worry, you are wearing your ICone today. This is your lucky day, she even finds you cute in that color.
Simply turn your sweatshirt or jacket inside out, and you automatically have a new outfit. The switch is completely undetectable.
Turn it around and your jacket becomes a sweatshirt.
Wear it as is, zipper in front, it’s a jacket. Zipper in the back, you have a sweatshirt. Add a collar, you instantely become more elegant. Protect you head with the hood,you are warm and cosy. Multiply the effects for up to 20+ different combinations. Play around by adding the bicolor collar or hood to your sweatshirt, make the jacket a sweatshirt… So many fun ways to look different.
Zipper is outdated. Our jackets close by themselves, thanks to a very unique magnetic system replacing the now obsolete zipper.
The exclusive distribution of extra strong magnets automatically aligns perfectly the two sides of the garment. This has been developed with children, elderly, people with reduced mobility and handicapped people in mind. It can be closed with only one hand.
The very strong magnets keep the garment closed at all time, no risk of unexpected opening, keeping it nonetheless easy to open.
Both the collar and the hood frimly hold in place thanks to the magnets.
Don’t worry for the security gantry !
● Ease of use for impaired people ● Pacemaker safe ● Preserve your health ● Credit card magnetic strip safe
The magnets have been tested and are guaranteed safe to a pacemaker bearer and they do not interfere with security gates. Our magnets are certifie OEKO-TEX Standard 100, class 2, an internationally recognized label in the field of the protection of people against the content of undesirable substances. Besides, although being absolutely safe, our magnets are protected in a fabric sheath and never get in contact with your body.
They are made of permanent magnetic ceramics based on rare earth (neodymium-iron-boron), zinc galvanization passive (anti-corrosion coating), binded with silicone base glue. The polyurethane film tape (PU support) hass a significant elongation coefficient allowing incredible flexibility of the product. Machine washable.
Both the sweatshirt or the jacket, and the hood are equipped with a very strong patented magnet rim that makes the hood very easy to snap and hold firmly in place.
Why travel loaded and cluttered when it feels so good to travel light. You can easily reduce the weight of luggage and why not, take all your needs in a cabin suitcase. Gain time at airports, fit anywhere, do not lug tons. Versatile clothing makes you feel free. A small bag and your smartphone, and you’re ready to go.
The hood doubles as a carrying pouch when you want to remove your garment. Simply push ICone into the hood, close it with the magnets, pull the straps, join the two ends, and voilà, you can carry it as shoulder strap.
Extensive hours of research and design were necessary to obtain the perfect seam, absolutely centered on the shoulder, so it is as beautiful and comfortable in either way. The interior is the exact same in the second color, so it looks as good in the 4 different versions.
Thank to a very unique patented mechanical magnet system, the clip closes by itself once you approach the two ends. It’s like magic. No more pushing to enter one part into the other. No more pressing to extract a clucked part. Once closed, it is impossible to snatch.
Another genius idea, the antiperspirant armpit. A special piece of holey fabric, sewed right under the armpit, allows air to flow in and avoid perspiration and disgracious stains. No more embarrassment when lifting your arm. And no unpleasant perspiration odors. Very useful since you are going to love your ICone so much that you will wear it all the time.
Your choice of white or black.
The pockets are on the grey side of the garment to give a sporty look. We chose not to have pockets on the black side to inspire a more elegant look.
It adjusts so well on the sweatshirt or jacket than no one will ever imagine it can be removed.
The worldwide leading textile processing standard for organic fibres, including ecological and social criteria, backed up by independent certification of the entire textile supply chain.
STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® is one of the world’s best-known labels for textiles tested for harmful substances. It stands for customer confidence and high product safety. Find out here what STANDARD 100 means and why it is worth checking for this label when buying textiles.
We even obtained the OEKO Tex Label for our magnets. They are as safe as safe can be.
ICone comes now with two colors grey and black.
As the campaign reaches monetary goals, we will release the below colors.
Get one, have many
By supporting this project, you obviously are a backer, and not a backpacker, you strongly express your will to stand out from the crowd. Reject the backpack, don’t encumber yourself, be free. Travel light and enjoy it. Look at other travellers and remember not long ago, you were like that too. These days are over, a new generation of travellers have emerged and you’re one of the first to join.
We fully comply to the GOTS norms but also added our own ethIC. Our productions are made in thoroughly selected human size factories unable to produce more than 1000 units per day and no more than 50 workers to preserve well being and social labor norms. Before we chose them, we have scrupulously verified that working conditions were respected and that the employees were paid decent wages. And very important, we strongly condemn and reject any form of child labor.
IC is determined and committed to respecting human labor in its production centers and regularly ensures their well-being and the benefits they can receive.
Besides, these highly priority concerns, we emphasise on work quality and are very strict and demanding on perfect job. We will not settle for approximate quality. Any non perfect IC garment Is unconditionally rejected.
ICone will be produced at strategic points around the world to minimize transportation cost and reduce the CO2 impact on the planet.
Textile industry is the second polluting industry in the world after oil industry. 80 Md of clothes are sold each year, 1 Md jeans, one of the most polluting. The cotton grows in India, is spun in Pakistan, is dyed with highly dangerous chemicals in China, made and faded in Turkey, the zipper can come from Japan. Your jean may have traveled more that you will ever do in your lifespan. Sometimes up to 65,000 km/35,000 miles.
Do you know that making a simple cotton T-shirt requires 2700 liter/715 gallons of water, a cotton field may get up to 20 treatments of pesticides in one year, and all that ends in nature and seriously impacts on our health.
The permanent damage on the environment is disastrous.
If your garment is in polyester, made of petroleum derivatives, washing it removes so tiny indestructible particules, that the filters cannot hold them. These toxic particles end in water, where fishes make a feast of them, to finish in our plate.
Besides, most of the textile industry relies on cheap labor in poor countries where workers are exploited and underpaid.
At IC, Intelligent Clothing, we like to think of new ideas and we constantly search for means to introduce concepts and not just improve the existing. We ambition to fight the fast fashion, excessive consomption of clothing, and opt for the slow fashion instead. Clothes must last, be versatile, nonetheless elegant, and non polluting.
We found the way to reduce the carbon footprint by limiting the number of clothes we need to buy. Any of IC garment replaces several, saving money and the planet.
We pride ourselves to select only factories and manufacturing facilities that respect its workers and pay them decent wages. Close to the distribution centers, and closer to you to save what we can of what’s left of our beautiful planet. We have children, and we try to preserve as much as we can for them.Fabric
The fabric we use benefits from the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS). It is organic cotton, soft, strong, machine washable, breathable and non polluting.
mail: contact@barbarian.com.co
We have worked for months without any rest since we have decided to launch the project, but the idea was in our mind for quite a few years already and we have fine-tuned it ever since. It has not been a week without a new idea, a new challenge, a new improvement in the concept. We have overcome all the obstacles, and it was not always easy. When we have been convinced that it was ready, there was no reason to wait anymore and we made the plunge. What you see now is the result of many meetings, brainstorming sessions, sandwiches, pizzas slices and sodas (some beers too, we confess). And the result is here today and we are very happy, we can now, at last, start a diet and go back to the gym. We have given our best to bring you a perfectly finished product that we are sure will please you for a long time. There are many more products in design already and are very eager to launch them as soon as possible. Expect more new innovative and surprising products and garments in the months to come. Be as impatient as we are, and tell it, it will encourage us to work even harder to get them out quickly. Your participation will help fund these new ideas.