One of fashion's most innovative voices, London-based HARRI is redefining contemporary design through deeply personal, culturally-rooted craftsmanship. Born in Kerala, India, where he learnt that “the body is never separate from its climate”, HARRI explores the forms of the body through sculptural and theatrically amplified garments seen on figures like Sam Smith, Tilda Swinton, Jisoo, and exhibited at the V&A and Design Museum. For HARRI, designing for heat isn’t just a challenge, it’s a responsibility.
HEAT RESPONSE
Cooling should focus on bodies, not spaces.
Singapore’s been air-conditioned to perfection. We know it hurts the planet—and yet, we’ve built our cities around it. Maybe the problem isn’t the heat, but how we’ve chosen to fight it. “We tend to cool the spaces, like the whole shopping mall, and not focus on cooling the person. Actually, we should be more targeted to the human,” says Associate Professor Jason Lee, Director, Heat Resilience and Performance Centre, National University of Singapore.
Existing in extreme contrast to the inefficiency of traditional air-conditioners, THE SELF-CONDITIONER reimagines cooling as a personal ecosystem. Not air-conditioning the world, but only what’s necessary; to create a microclimate for the body’s immediate sphere.
Existing in extreme contrast to the inefficiency of traditional air-conditioners, THE SELF-CONDITIONER reimagines cooling as a personal ecosystem. Not air-conditioning the world, but only what’s necessary; to create a microclimate for the body’s immediate sphere.
“The suit is both shield and skin, humour and resistance,” says artist and designer HARRI. “It asks: what does protection look like in a world that is overheating? What happens when survival looks surreal? Growing up in Kerala, heat was constant. It made you hyper-aware of your body and how garments should be silhouettes shaped by heat.”
THE SELF-CONDITIONER is an intentionally irreverent response to climate control, inviting us to radically rethink the norms that got us into this crisis in the first place. An inflatable being, suspended mid-motion—buoyant yet bound. The wearer floats between control and surrender, caught in the push and pull between the self and its environment. HARRI adds, “And just maybe, he’s smiling—because floating feels like a rebellion of its own.”
THE SELF-CONDITIONER is an intentionally irreverent response to climate control, inviting us to radically rethink the norms that got us into this crisis in the first place. An inflatable being, suspended mid-motion—buoyant yet bound. The wearer floats between control and surrender, caught in the push and pull between the self and its environment. HARRI adds, “And just maybe, he’s smiling—because floating feels like a rebellion of its own.”
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