Paris fashion week
Lacoste, Spring/Summer ’08
Lacoste
We would expect to come across Michael Young at an Established and Sons launch at the Salone di Mobile in Milan, rather than on the last day of mens fashion week in Paris. But disciplines cross over at Wallpaper*, so we were happy to hear that our favourite polo maker Lacoste teamed up with the Hong Kong-based, British-born industrial designer. Young has created the ‘Plastic Polo’, the second in the company’s holiday collectors series (last year it was Tom Dixon’s turn). Young combined textiles, which he has never really worked with before - ’I never really got my head around how they cut, it seemed highly complex’ - and plastic, a material he is much more familiar with.
Young collects Japanese gardening gloves that have a kind of latex coating, and has developed a similar technique for the Plastic Polo. Taking a classic style in the new slimmer fit, he has applied a heat-activated ink, which when baked, becomes a thick plastic mock-croc skin. The shape of his print is of course an alligator that climbs up the front and over the back of the shirt. Young admits that he is a late developer when it came to being a Lacoste fan; previously he had ‘airbrushed’ it out of his mind but admits to being now hooked on the clothes, shoes and bags by Christophe Lemaire.
Lacoste
We would expect to come across Michael Young at an Established and Sons launch at the Salone di Mobile in Milan, rather than on the last day of mens fashion week in Paris. But disciplines cross over at Wallpaper*, so we were happy to hear that our favourite polo maker Lacoste teamed up with the Hong Kong-based, British-born industrial designer. Young has created the ‘Plastic Polo’, the second in the company’s holiday collectors series (last year it was Tom Dixon’s turn). Young combined textiles, which he has never really worked with before - ’I never really got my head around how they cut, it seemed highly complex’ - and plastic, a material he is much more familiar with.
Young collects Japanese gardening gloves that have a kind of latex coating, and has developed a similar technique for the Plastic Polo. Taking a classic style in the new slimmer fit, he has applied a heat-activated ink, which when baked, becomes a thick plastic mock-croc skin. The shape of his print is of course an alligator that climbs up the front and over the back of the shirt. Young admits that he is a late developer when it came to being a Lacoste fan; previously he had ‘airbrushed’ it out of his mind but admits to being now hooked on the clothes, shoes and bags by Christophe Lemaire.
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