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.