2025 | Professional

French Design Awards Gold Winner

Imperial Wind Series

Entrant Company

ERAL fashion

Category

Product Design - Fashion

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

The Imperial Wind Series, a groundbreaking innovation, seamlessly blends the elegant profile of a British trench coat with the lightweight warmth of professional down, transcending boundaries of occasion and style to offer urban women pursuing refined elegance a stylish down-wear solution that confidently tackles cold weather without compromise.
The upper body perfectly embodies the classic structural language of the trench coat, crisp shoulders, clean lines, and three-dimensional tailoring; a unique double-layered suit collar and waist-cinching design enhance the overall fashion and sharpness. The lower body maintains the down jacket’s warmth and freedom of movement while preserving a cohesive three-dimensional silhouette with the upper body.
The main body adopts a higher-density quilting zone structure for precise filling control and silhouette guidance; each vertical segment narrows progressively from bottom to top, accentuating the waist-to-hip ratio visually while imparting stronger structural tension and feminine contours. This design is adaptively optimized for diverse Asian female body types, whether pear-shaped, hourglass, or rectangular, attaining optimal contour refinement visually.
The Imperial Wind Series enables dynamic waist contour control through an adjustable belt. When tightened, it naturally forms a clear vertical dividing line, guiding the eye from shoulders through the waist to the hem, reinforcing the trench coat’s classic “crisp shoulders and straight hem” tailoring language, exuding a sense of strength and sophistication. Pleated cuffs create a three-dimensional spatial effect; the “pure white goose down” filling, exceeding national standards, paired with a “four-layer down-locking” system, ensures stable loft and leak-proof warmth. The lining, woven with graphene-infused functional yarn, provides consistent and lasting heat conduction. The fabric blends 32° North latitude mulberry silk with polyester fiber, balancing flexible shaping and lightweight support. The overall design, based on ergonomic segmented modeling, features a structured upper body and relaxed lower body, harmonizing aesthetic appeal with freedom of movement.

Credits

Yanglu Mei
Junjie Yang
Changxian Jiang
Jiaqian Li
Qifeng Zhang
Qifu Huang
Qin Li
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