Millet X Polartec: Heritage
The two partner companies collaborate again, this time with the collection called “Heritage“. The materials, shapes and colors are reminiscent of the early stages of the collaboration, which began a good thirty years ago.
For one hundred years Millet has been committed to refining its approach to the outdoor world: from the first shopping bags in the French Alps to the creation of backpacks suitable for tackling Everest. The brand has also always wanted to follow many athletes in their adventures, such as Reinhold Messner, Éric Escoffier and Patrick Edlinger. Over time, the need to find more technical solutions for mountain clothing was felt more and more, reaching a turning point at the end of the 80s: Millet was among the first in Europe to adapt Polarfleece for its products, innovating in comfort and heat preservation. The brand fell in love with the use of fleece in the French Alps, offering it in many brightly colored prints that wrote the history of European outdoor fashion at the time. Millet used the same fabric throughout the 1990s, until Malden Mills’ fleece became the Polartec brand.
Since then, both brands have helped each other transform and improve together, adopting technologies like weather-resistant Polartec Windbloc and Polartec Power Stretch that allows for more agile movements. Innovation after innovation, Polartec came up with a fabric that found great enthusiasm from Millet: Polartec Power Fill, a material that reduces microfiber dispersion by up to 80%. After thirty years of collaboration, here we are with Heritage, the new collection reminiscent of the great mountaineers of the 1980s who greatly stimulated the development of technical fabrics in mountain sports. “The Thermal Polar Fleece proposed in the Heritage collection is a product with a vintage design” says Nicolas Thomas, designer at Millet. “It is inspired by the iconic Millet fleeces revisited with a fabric proposed by Polartec that gives a vintage touch, but with a totally modern style, thanks to its comfortable and thermal technical characteristics.”
