Yael Mer: A Skirt That Can Save Your Life
Karin Kloosterman | | 9 Comments | Email this
We are sure that Yael Mer’s “Evacuation Skirt” was designed tongue-in-cheek. Or was it?
Conceived after the New Orleans hurricane and flood, says Yael: “The skirt keeps its glamorous look when it’s deflated on the one hand, and on the other, it inflates into a kayak with the right amount of volume to carry a grown up woman.
She adds, “I wanted to raise the question of emergency and beauty and to explore whether they can meet each other.”Green Prophet says S.O.S.
If sea levels in Israel rise (that’s what the experts say will happen, after global warming sets in), we’ll be ordering a few of these skirts. We wonder if Yael has a prototype for men, kids and pets in the works?Yael’s design is quirky, but totally thought-provoking, wouldn’t you say?
See also Yael’s Slipper Rocker, rock on!::Yael Mer
9 Responses to “Yael Mer: A Skirt That Can Save Your Life”
Tania • January 7th, 2008 • 10:26 pm
That is probably one of the strangest things I have ever seen. Does it come in other colours?
anna weltman • January 8th, 2008 • 11:46 am
well, with a last name of ‘mer’, you are probably always thinking about water and ways to live with it! Yoffi!
(‘mer’ in french is ‘sea’, for those of you who don’t know.)
Ilana • January 8th, 2008 • 12:08 pm
And suddenly “Does this make me look fat?” takes on a whole new meaning…
Green Prophet • January 8th, 2008 • 12:45 pm
Sail away for a year and a day to the land where the bong trees grow?
Rock On, With Slipper Rocker « Green Prophet • January 16th, 2008 • 8:52 pm
[...] the same gal that brought us the inflatable kayak skirt (the Evacuation Skirt), which is great for flash floods when global warming sets in, comes the 2-in-1 slipper rocker [...]
Shay Alkalay: Strategic Stickies for Stained Clothes « Green Prophet • January 17th, 2008 • 12:15 pm
[...] to see something even crazier? See Yael Mer’s evacuation skirt, perfect for flash-floods and global [...]
Talli • February 29th, 2008 • 11:29 pm
That’s a giant vagina people! brilliant!
Fun Green Roundup #11 from Life Goggles • April 10th, 2008 • 6:02 pm
[...] environmental link, I had to link to designer Shay Alkalay’s partner’s creations. Yael Mer’s Evacuation Skirt is brilliant. Mad, but brilliant. And the Slipper Rocker is even crazier, I love them [...]
Danielle • July 27th, 2008 • 7:01 am
It’s been such a long time since a designer has brought a smile to my face. Yael has such a wonderfully eccentric sense of design, both whimsical and alarming, that one can all but help themselves from smiling!