Say hello to your new favourite yoga pants!

Link for UK customers here.

Designed by me in Paris, made in the EU with the help of a lovely company who have the coverstitch sewing machines I’ve always wanted. They show all 88 constellations (count ‘em!) which have been used for millennia to tell stories, for navigation, and as a frame of reference for other astronomical observations. Each culture maps these groups of stars slightly differently, so i’ve chosen to use the International Astronomical Union standards to make these leggings as scientifically accurate as possible. I’ve even drawn each star to scale relative to its neighbours.

Did you know that although the stars in a given constellation look like they’re close together, they’re actually incredibly far apart. For example, one of the stars in Orion is 243 light years away from Earth, whereas another is an incredible 1360 light years away. Wild! If we looked at the stars from anywhere else in the universe we wouldn’t be able to recognise the constellations at all because they’re specific to our unique vantage point. I’m sure humans would have come up with 88 new ones, though.

Find the high waist version of these yoga pants here!

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Colour choices:
(please note that the colours you see on screen will inevitably vary from the exact shade of the real yoga pants, due to differences between computer screen settings and real life. Please also note that I named these colours after a year in isolation so they are TENUOUS. Hope you like them!)

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• Chromium (III) Oxide: Green is my absolute favourite colour of all time so it was really hard to choose a perfect shade. Chromium (III) Oxide seems to fit the bill, being both vibrant and consisting of a hexagonal close packed array of oxide anions with 2⁄3 of the octahedral holes occupied by chromium. Only joking! I just liked the colour, that’s all!
• Titanium Yellow: This shade is named after a particular yellow pigment which has a really high melting point - over 1000°C - so no matter how hot yout hot yoga is, these leggings won’t melt ;-)
• Flight Suit Orange: Flight suits for astronauts are bright orange so it’s easier to find them in case of a rescue mission. This is particularly important in the event of a water landing. I like to think that these ‘flight suit orange’ yoga pants would be similarly useful if I fall into the canal while out running.
• HeNe Red: When I was about seventeen I did a summer project in a laser laboratory. The owner of the lab had a small dog named after the Helium Neon lasers we used (HeNe) and it used to lick my knees whenever I wore shorts. It was a weird time.
• Sahara Pink: In 2018, scientists discovered a biological pigment under a rock in the Sahara Desert. This pigment is estimated to be about 1.1 billion years old, and is bright pink, just like these yoga pants (or so I imagine!)
• Newton’s Purple: Excuse me while I troll Isaac Newton, please. In 1660 he was dicking about with sunlight and used a prism to split white light into its constituent colours (imagine the cover of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon), and decided that there were seven, not including purple. The reason for this is a little convoluted but you can find an awesome explanation here.
• Lapis Lazuli: One of the oldest mined minerals, Lapis lazuli has been used throughout history as a fancy and expensive blue pigment in paintings and fabrics. Its name derives, in a roundabout way, from the Persian words for “sky stone”.
• Filament Grey: An incandescent light bulb works by heating a wire filament until it starts glowing. These yoga pants are the approximate shade of a tungsten filament before a current passes through it. Quite the talking point, huh?

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Approximate sizes:
(see photos for detailed garment sizing)
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Find your body size below to choose your garment size (XS - XL):
XS: waist 64cm (25”), hips 90cm (35”)
S: waist 68cm (27”), hips 94cm (37”)
M: waist 72cm (29”), hips 98cm (39”)
L: waist 80cm (31”), hips 106cm (42”)
XL: waist 88cm (35”), 114cm (45”)

Materials:
18% elastane
82% polyester

Care instructions:
Machine wash on a cool cycle, tumble dry on low heat. Do not iron, bleach or dry clean.