Pakistan-based Azgard-9 has launched a new garment that produces oxygen besides offering sustainable and antibacterial properties.

The denim company collaborated with the London-based Post Carbon Lab, a design research studio focused on sustainability to develop a poncho that imitates a plant’s ability to photosynthesize and release oxygen into the environment.

The prototype can show fashion houses and retailers that concepts we once associated with sci-fi are available to us right here right now and can help us rethink the future, in a demonstration of possibilities that Azgrd-9’s technology might add to these brands. C.O2.A.T is also imbued with characteristics that give us a glimpse of how truly great the future of fashion might look like: photosynthesis, anti-bacterial, anti-odor, anti-viric, breathable, water-resistant, repellent.

The move is part of the brand's 'Future Before Fashion' initiative to encourage future-focused solutions that have considerably low impact on the environment and are totally sustainable.