An exclusive peek into the world of top fashion as our fashion expert Gemma Champ gives you a daily take on what’s happening, as it happens, during New York Fashion Week. Here is today's coverage beginning with Lacoste.
Everyone for tennis
With the US Open rained off by Saturday’s stormy conditions, Lacoste’s frosted plastic raincoats seemed eminently sensible – not least to those members of the audience still damp from the downpour.
The rest of the collection, though, was sunny, sporty and graphic, as Lacoste should always be, with colourblocking on tennis dresses in acid yellow and grey, or tonal blues, layered looks in glowy white, cobalt blue and scarlet, and a range of new repeat prints designed by the creative director Felipe Oliveira Baptista using tennis motifs and crocodiles.
A rather hard dubstep soundtrack came down to the percussive beat of balls on a court, neatly summarising the brand’s ethos as it approaches its 80th anniversary.