Hasta La Ideas

What happens when designers known for making furniture from trash take on one of the most preppy clothing brands? Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana ditch French restraint to riff on Lacoste‘s signature crocodile for a series of limited edition shirts due out this holiday season, the fourth such collaboration for the label.

The project also references the designers’ own ouevre, playing on a version of their iconic Banquette chair made from stuffed alligators by clustering eight crocs on the breast of Lacoste’s classic polo. An explicit reference to their Alligator Chair, it’s limited to an edition of 20,000.

Far more exclusive, the collaboration also introduces two other special designs. The first, 125 units each for men and women, takes its inspiration from nature. The men’s polo mimics the small fluvial islands on the Amazon, while the women’s borrows from the Lianas vines that grow amidst rainforest trees.

Comprised entirely of embroidered crocodiles, the second series references the traditional lacework found in Northern Brazil in an edition of 12 made-to-order shirts for each gender.

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via Dezeen