Louise Trotter's continuing interest in sports and culture informs her dynamic approach to Lacoste as a genuine cornerstone of French sportswear. The spirit of mobility, lightness, and utility is fundamental in her design approach, which draws inspiration from the world of tennis - the brand's very lifeblood – to cycling, basketball, and other city sports. The Lacoste Spring Summer 2022 collection blurs the barriers between performance and aesthetics for a simplified approach to summer in the city by examining the confluence of athletic outfits with our everyday life.
When it comes to the personality of athletes, essential silhouettes show surface innovation and contrasting features heightened with a technological polish, from René Lacoste and his tennis partner, Suzanne Lenglen's elegant portraits in the Roaring Twenties to Peter Sutherland and Philippe Bialobos' rhythmic documentation of urban bike couriers in the 2000s, a call-and-response of sartorial and sporting tropes results in hybrid typologies and subtle nods to sporting subcultures. The shorts suits are made of neoprene piqué jersey, the pleated tennis skirts are made of frosted pastel rubber, and the Lacoste polo is reinvented in the printed mesh.
