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29 June 2012| last updated at 10:05PM

Footballer fashion at Paris menswear



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PARIS: Who said football and fashion made an unlikely match? A Brazilian designer set out to prove the opposite in Paris Friday with a menswear line looking ahead to the 2014 World Cup in his home country.

 

Paris-based Gustavo Lins teamed up with a Brazilian sportswear brand,  Penalty, to create a luxury menswear line for next spring-summer full of nods  to the football galaxy.
 
“It’s a bridge between the sartorial world of tailoring here in Europe and  something more relaxed, it blends hard and soft, masculine and feminine,” the  designer told AFP after the show in a courtyard in Paris’ Marais district.
 
Formal jackets or super-fine sweaters in acid hues were paired with  tracksuit-style pants — cut from fine cotton jersey — or slinky pants with a  drawstring waist for a look at once athletic and luxurious.
 
For evening a tuxedo was reworked with tracksuit pants complete with black  satin stripe, above black-and-white leather sneakers.
 
Lins, who says he designs with real men in mind, used the swirled pattern  of a football as the motif for a T-shirt, one of the items to be offered as a  part of a separate, sportier capsule collection co-branded with Penalty. -- AFP

Brazilian designer Gustavo Lins (C) acknowledges the audience next to models displaying his creations following the men's spring-summer 2013 fashion collection show on June 29, 2012 at the Hotel de Sauroy in Paris. AFP/ FRANCOIS GUILLOT

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