Lacoste
Designer: Felipe Oliveira Baptista

• “The … street-savvy silhouettes that Baptista sent onto the runway at Lincoln Center–with basketball stars Chris Bosh and Kris Humphries among the front-row celebrity guests–were in turns elegant and athletic.” {AFP}
• “Can we hide from April showers in that thing, s’il vous plait?” {Daily Front Row}
• “Touting Lacoste’s 80th anniversary, Felipe Oliveira Baptista looked to the brand’s archives to deliver a simultaneously crisp yet whimsical print-heavy collection.” {FabSugar}
• “After the torrential downpour that greeted editors on the way into the Lacoste Spring 2013 show Saturday morning, nothing could have been a more welcome sight than Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s many variations on a plastic raincoat, whose seams were welded shut. The rest of the brand’s 80th-anniversary collection was similarly modern and forward-thinking.” {fashionologie}
• “At the French sports giant Lacoste, the designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista is creating a quiet revolution. He is introducing a street-conscious feel and a convincing women’s collection, without deviating too far from the essence of the French sportswear brand.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “The OCD-ishness of Felipe Oliveira Baptista’s allover tennis-inspired prints in today’s Lacoste show was the designer’s most winning stake yet in the heritage of the legendary sportswear label.” {Style.com}
• “With a genius branding tool like a print that’s actually Lacoste polos all over–equipped with teeny alligator emblem and all–even the staples could be described as unconventional.” {Thread NY/NBC New York}
• “You have to hand it … to Lacoste creative director Felipe Oliveira Baptista. Not only has he combined two of the eighties’ most awkward sportswear items (namely the shell suit and the fanny pack) into the centerpiece of his Spring 2013 collection; but he’s done it with an incredible amount of flair and inventiveness.” {Vogue.com}
• “Felipe Oliveira Baptista took quite a turn with his women’s collection for Lacoste, making it lighter and full of festive new prints, great rainwear and breezy shapes.” {WWD}