Lacoste - New York Fashion Week

During New York Fashion Week spring/summer 2009, Lacoste presented it’s ideas and designs for next year’s warm season.

“The Tent” was the center of interest during the early hours of September 6th and of course filled with fashion pros and media who saw a collection by this sports- and leisurewear company which carries the name of a famous french tennis player, and whose long tradition got reflected in the designs we were about to encounter on the catwalk.

In comparison to designers like Marc Jacobs, who presented one of the most fabulous collections of this New York Fashion Week and who has a broad fan base who buy his special creations, the designs of Lacoste aim at the general audience and therefore has to suit many different tastes.

Fashion by Lacoste is sports- and leisurewear on a high level which can be perfectly combined, at last in men’s wear, with other fashion items that match the highest standars of quality and style, providing it’s wearer with the certain touch of casualness.

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In comparison to other collections we already saw during this fashion week, pastel colors were as well dominating, but the number of colors used in the designs was higher than for example at Perry Ellis. We saw red, yellow, white, blue and black, red and of course the Lacoste green which is, maybe because of the brand’s trademark the crocodile, one of the colors you come along in every of their collections.

Self-colored pastels could be seen in most of the designs, whereas some of them were patterned. Especially appealing from our point of view was a combination of shirt and short on one of the male models with horizontal stripes in light red, which was the most summerly item of the collection.

The Lacoste collection, designed by Christophe Lemaire is sportswear at it’s best. Another reason to look forward to next year’s spring/summer season where we’ll surely run into the fashionate designs at many places which mustn’t naturally be connected to sports.