Ultra-Cashmere

Inventor: Lutz & Patmos, with Yves Behar

Ah, cashmere. It's toasty warm, deliciously soft, wonderfully luxurious — and now water repellent. Every fiber in this $1,100 "windbreaker" introduced last spring is coated in Teflon, though you wouldn't know this to wear it. The chemical treatment is done when the raw cashmere is first washed (to make it soft for knitting), so there's no discernible difference — until you flick water at it and watch the droplets run off.

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