e023 Ryan Mario Yasin: Implementing aeronautical engineering in fashion

Listen to Ryan Mario Yasin, a 27-year-old design engineer
with a background in aeronautics. Ryan invented,
photographed, and promoted his brand Petit Pli in 2017, while he
was a Global Innovation Design student. Since
graduating in 2017, he has evolved Petit Pli’s designs from a
proof of concept to a patent-pending commercially available
design.


Ryan’s motivation to engineer a solution that reduces waste
in childrenswear was inspired by his nephew. The realization
brought light to the fact that childrenswear on the market is
miniaturized adult clothing; design unfit for their
users. 


To realize Petit Pli, Ryan set out to understand the needs
of parents, children, retailers, and manufacturers to create a
novel design using his understanding of deployable satellites and
origami structures.