| LACOSTE’s Animal Mascot Appears on new gene-ration tropical prints |
Impressed by the ocher and white hues of the modernist Villa Malaparte in Capri, creative director, Felipe Oliveira Baptista dreams up a tennis match on its rooftop.
In the collection, LACOSTE’s animal mascot appears on new gene-ration tropical prints.
Enlarged crocodile graffiti are covered with childish scribbles, halftone flat tints painted à la Andy Warhol, and free-spirited brushstrokes, like those Le Corbusier did for the fresco of the Swiss Pavilion of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
The colour palette includes pastels and green and navy along with orange and bold red and yellow.
The show invokes sexy and tanned bodies chiseled by swimming and sunbathing sessions, hamming balls back and forth, against a backdrop of pine forests, creeks, and rocky inlets.
The bathrobes and wrapped towels Brigitte Bardot dons in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, which was partly shot at the Villa Malaparte, inspires a wide range of hooded or shawl-collared bathrobes.
The pieces are along with terrycloth bustier dresses that are belted high on the waist with matching improvised strings, the better to highlight the effortlessly silhouette.
Chic tracksuits and loose fleece sweatshirts with sleeves that vanish showed thanks to a simple set of studs, and whose sides can be unzipped.
A reflection of the designer’s obsessions, the clothes are modular, reversible, or with retractable sleeves. Inspired by women’s tennis skirts, short tunics in feather light mesh sport gussets or delicate wide pleats.
The fisherman jackets and slickers recall seaside family houses. Bleached by the sun and stiffened by sea spray salt, they have an unmistakable holiday flavour.
Cut in technical navy blue cotton and worn over a white tracksuit, trench coats have a new found aerodynamic purity.
Long tank dresses in cotton piqué can be worn with or without belts, and sport either 1970’s-style stripes, or larger versions that recall 1990’s skaters.
