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Lacoste Fall-Winter 2026: The Game Belongs to the Elements
- Style Essentials Edit Team
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Lacoste's Fall-Winter 2026 collection opens with a history lesson worth paying attention to. On July 31, 1923, René Lacoste was mid-match against Spain's Manuel de Gomar in a Davis Cup round in Deauville when rain flooded the court. Spectators threw newspapers on the grass to speed drying. Players waited. The match stretched to two days. Lacoste won in four sets.
Creative Director Pelagia Kolotouros builds the entire collection on that pause, not the victory but the waiting. The spectators in the stands, the trench coats, the rubber boots, and the umbrellas. It is a precise editorial decision, and it gives the collection a coherence that pure sport-referencing rarely achieves.
The construction follows the concept. Bonded tech wool, transparent nylon with wet and reflective finishes, and waterproofed fabrications sit alongside plush velvet and the soft tailoring of the René blazer. The crocodile returns, worked into embroideries and emblem treatments that feel deliberate rather than decorative.
The Mackintosh collaboration is the season's most substantial move. The Scottish outerwear house, founded in 1824, still makes its rubberized garments largely by hand with color-matched, waterproofed cotton hand-glued and hand-taped using 19th-century techniques. What comes out of the dialogue is a poncho polo, a rainproof tracksuit, a pleated trench skirt, and a hybrid track jacket shirt. The collaboration is justified by the pieces themselves, rather than merely announcing it.
Kolotouros calls the underlying approach "tech-heritage," meaning athletic and archival performance and craft held together in the same garment. The palette holds the same logic with cool greys and inky heathers as a base, Agave Green for grass after rain, and Rusty Red for Roland-Garros clay. The colors are inspired by the weather, rather than a mood board.
The Lenglen bag returns in new proportions with a silicon grip handle, while a racquet cover and tennis ball clutch are crafted in Mackintosh technical fabrics. Fan culture touchpoints, including weathered trophy pins, Grand Slam T-shirts, and a digital watch with a stretch bracelet, round out a collection that knows exactly where it comes from.
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