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An Invitation: Lacoste Gives a Glimpse of its Founder’s Parisian Night Life for its Fall-Winter 2025 Show

Photo courtesy of Lacoste.

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In exploring the life of René Lacoste outside of tennis, the French fashion house takes its Fall-Winter 2025 show from clay courts to fluorescent city lights

On the morning of March 9, Stade Roland Garros opened to full attendance as its clay courts seemingly rose from the ground, creating the stage for the Lacoste Fall-Winter 2025 show.

Accompanied by similarly-colored elements that reference the round dinner tables that the late René Lacoste took to fill with his contemporaries, the concept of the show focuses on the life that the late founder took to transition from a champion-winning tennis player to a respected figure in society.

Formal structures and sensibilities remain uncompromised despite the model’s movement along the runway as shown through soft satins on box-cut tees, free-flowing trench coats, and reflective overwear.

The collection also features motifs that reframe the founder’s name and accolades as an athlete: from an ornamental rendition of the crocodile logo (a nickname and image of a fierce competitor attached since his grand slam tennis years) to an oversized hooded sweater featuring a sizable “R” across the right shoulder and spots of green and pink referencing the blurred fluorescent lights across the streets of France.

The classic polo also becomes a canvas for body-tracing silhouettes as creative director Pelagia Kolotouros lengthens and recontextualizes its inherent design to create pieces that sneak an element of sensuality along its form. 

With a palette that starts with neutral hues adapted through layered cashmere and high-visibility fabrics, Kolotouros transitions to saturated green-blacks and touches of vibrant pink and silvers to represent the glimmering neon signs and personalities of the modern night life.

For its Fall-Winter collection, Lacoste continues to celebrate the facets that its late founder explored outside of sports, blending aspects of his free-spirited nature with his unconcealed sense for the urbane.

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