Editions

Lacoste- Plastic Polo

Lacoste invited us to be the second designer in their Holiday Collector's Series, a programme that selects someone from outside fashion to reinterpret their iconic polo shirt each year. Tom Dixon had done it the year before. Our instinct was to go straight to the material we had always been most drawn to: plastic. We wanted to experiment with combining plastic and fabric in ways that had never been attempted in garment production, and to find a process that would make the plastic feel entirely native to the shirt rather than applied to it. We produced two designs. On the Plastic Polo, rather than conventional screen printing, the ink was baked directly onto the fabric to cause blistering and create a textured, tactile skin across the surface of the shirt. On the Plastic Polo+, a metallic leaf film was applied in a crocodile skin pattern, a direct and deliberate reference to the Lacoste crocodile that felt both irreverent and completely fitting. The collection was released as a limited edition and sold through Lacoste globally.