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Sheltersuit Foundation, who is committed to keep the homeless and refugees warm while being outside in the cold, succeeds in fascinating the design world even more. Last year Sheltersuit exposed at the Dutch Design Week where many were gripped by Sheltersuit’s story. This year, Organisation in Design invited Sheltersuit to showcase their project at Europe’s most important design event; Salone del Mobilé. This is where Sheltersuit aspires to globally raise awareness for homelessness by exposing their project and by donating 100 Sheltersuits to the homeless in Milan.

Op 23 March of this year, the mayor of Enschede visited Sheltersuit. At the beginning of 2017, the Sheltersuit Foundation relocated to its current premises, the multi-tenant business centre Spinnerij Oosterveld.

Every year designers from all over the world come to Eindhoven to exhibit their designs. This year we were asked to show the Sheltersuit. We asked ourselves the questions; what if, what if we decide to design clothes for the homeless? What if everybody thinks that crazy?

The first 50 Sheltersuits for Syrian refugees are on their way! While our main focus lies on helping the homeless, we decided to also hand out Sheltersuits in the Balkans. Our friend Osman will travel to Istanbul. While driving, he will provide the suits to those who need them most.

We introduced the Sheltersuit at Offprint Projects in Beaux-arts de Paris, l’école nationale supérieure! We want to thank Offprint Projects for inviting us to their beautiful event. With their help and the help of Salvation Army we were able to give away 60 Sheltersuits to the Parisian homeless. Special thanks to Steve Iseger and his team from Infinity Studios for making this awesome video!

Sheltersuit took the TEDxSaxion stage at the Wilminktheatre! We would like to thank our wonderfull speaker coaches from Presentationmaster for preparing us, aswel as the great team from TEDxSaxion for making this awesome event happen in our home town! Check out our TED talk