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Patagonia’s Glen Morden & Corey Simpson on Product Performance & Sustainability
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 01:04:20
Publish Date: 2020-02-07 16:30:17
Description:

Patagonia’s Glen Morden (Product Innovation, Materials, & Development) and Corey Simpson (Communications) came to Crested Butte to ski with us and to discuss how Patagonia is thinking about sustainability and product performance; how they continue to evolve on this front; talk about a few of their new pieces; their prototyping process; and more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Future performance innovations (8:00)
  • Sustainability Practices: 5 Years Ago vs. Today (12:20)
  • End-of-life solutions for garments (16:20)
  • Is sustainability a performance characteristic? (22:06)
  • Patagonia’s new Stormstride Kit & Upstride Kit (27:33)
  • “Perceived” Comfort & Breathability (33:11)
  • Simplifying kits (43:44)
  • The death of distinguishing between “hard” and “soft” shells? (46:00)
  • Dressing for the worst-case scenario? (47:50)
  • Patagonia’s prototyping process (52:29)
  • Where will we see the biggest improvements? (57:42)

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