NYFW FALL 2015: LACOSTE

At the famed tennis label, Felipe Oliveira Baptista mashes together 30s and 70s references.

 

Where the majority of the fashion world continually shifts its style to remain relevant, Felipe Oliveira Baptista needn’t change a thing. At Lacoste, where he serves as creative director, the designer this season looked to the sporting label’s own heritage - and, in particular, its founder, tennis player Rene Lacoste - for inspiration, reinventing the established codes in a collection that mashes together elements of Art Deco refinement with the colourful, graphic elements of the 1970s. The result: a casual albeit tailored range of sweaters, club blazers, overcoats and sneakers in acidic lime green, purple, gold and red, a sort of Royal Tenenbaums humour imbued throughout with slogans like “Tennis anyone?” and “Rene did it first”.