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February 11th, 2012 
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Felipe Oliviera Baptista turned to old-school alpine dressing and family archives for his second catwalk collection for Lacoste.
BY Luke Leitch
11 February 2012
Ski-jump high mini-skirts with eye-catchingly positioned zips on the runway at the Lacoste autumn/winter 2012 show. Photo: VLADIMIR POTOP
The high-heeled attendees at New York Fashion Week teetered through the driving snow to the shows yesterday – only to be confronted by more snow on the catwalk.
Lacoste, the venerable crocodile-logo French tennis brand, broadened its sporting range with a collection inspired by its 1966 contract to outfit the national ski team.
New York Fashion Week: Lacoste autumn/winter 2012 in pictures
This meant the decor was wintry – sleigh bell music and a catwalk bisected by two cellophane-walled vitrines full of billowing fake snow – and the clothes were old-school alpine in inspiration.
From the ski-boot style leather platform boots to the tight fitting, salopette-reminiscent panelled leggings or the pencil-quilted leather jackets, the look was sleek and close fitting.
There were several thigh-skimming mini-skirts with eye-catchingly positioned zips and decoratively high collars that were strictly apres-ski only, and plenty of more forgivingly cut – yet breath-takingly tight – long ribbed knit jersey dresses, or Lacoste-logo jumpers and clean, white leather dresses.
There was also a highly magnified tri-colour tweed print used in cloche hats and trouser suits, and a final black leather minidress with floating, detached sleeves.
This is Felipe Oliviera Baptista’s second catwalk collection for Lacoste and backstage, after the show, he said: “I found these amazing knits in the archives, and there were some photos of René Lacoste and the family in the thirties in tweeds so I remixed that – but I made it all for today.
“They are clothes that you can live in but have a great fit and a great look as well: empowering clothes.”
This was a solid collection executed as smoothly as a faultless glide down a black run. The only blip was when one of those snow-filled vitrines punctured, leaking fluffy white wisps all over a remarkably tolerant front-row.
Read more from New York Fashion Week autumn/winter 2012 here
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