{"id":346,"date":"2021-11-16T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=346"},"modified":"2021-11-16T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:05:00","slug":"petit-pli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Petit Pli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.petitpli.com\" target=\"_blank\">Petit Pli\u2019s<\/a> pitch that I read up on last week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children can grow 7 sizes in their first 2 years on Earth. This contributes towards 183 million items of outgrown &amp; unused childrenswear being hidden in homes across the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frustrated by these facts, and using his background in aeronautical engineering, Ryan set out to innovate within the $252bn childrenswear market for a LittleHuman called Viggo, his nephew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan developed Petit Pli\u2019s patented textile from the ground up; its versatility enables clothes to expand through 7 sizes. The technology has moved from a UK James Dyson Award winning proof of concept (2017) to a scaled technology in June 2019, with applications in sister segments, PPE, winning TIME\u2019s Best Invention of 2020. Our Adultwear is shortlisted for the 2021 Dezeen Award for Best Wearable Design &amp; released in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting as a student project, Petit Pli has grown into a D2C business with an international community of users spanning 60 countries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s Petit Pli\u2019s pitch that I read up on last week: Children can grow 7 sizes in their first 2 years on Earth. This contributes towards 183 million items of outgrown &amp; unused childrenswear being hidden in homes across the UK. Frustrated by these facts, and using his background in aeronautical engineering, Ryan set out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imruls.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}