Fursac FW24 Collection
Channel: Fursac
Date: 2024-01-18

FALL-WINTER '24/'25

It’s game night in the north of France. The smell of chips and warm beer fills the air. The fans’ chanting gives way to a roar of guitars spilling over from a nearby open-air rock concert. The home supporters are all decked out in their team’s colors, worn with anything from jeans to a suit. This is football’s unifying power.

The diversity of styles on display in the stands inspired Fursac Creative Director Gauthier Borsarello to create this Autumn-Winter '24/'25 collection where style is a team sport. A theme in keeping with Fursac’s history when the brand dressed the French football team in the '80s.

This season’s Fursac man—embodied in the collection lookbook by an eclectic mix of street casting, professional models, and special guest British musician and singer Miles Kane—tours Paris, the north of France, and Manchester and the '70s and early '80s. Statement garments designed and made to become tomorrow’s vintage, retaining a sense of timelessness as they journey through the years.

This top-tier wardrobe for neo-casuals (a '90s football counter culture that identified with casual clothing) features a shearling bomber jacket with yellow hi-vis inserts referencing the survival details of a British Second World War garment, worn over a retro football shirt revisited in a tonal navy cotton jersey. Silver lightning bolts adorn a leather jacket and a thick woolen donkey jacket as a nod to the northern French steel industry. Reminiscent of band merch, t-shirts screen-printed with images borrowed from the Magnum Photo Agency catalog are already collector’s items.

The collection is punctuated by sartorial nods to cultural and menswear icons. A mohair cardigan that could have been worn by a grunge singer, a fur jacket that has "bad boy" written all over it (here as a pink recycled faux fur pea coat), a Chesterfield coat crisscrossing London from the city to its diverse boroughs, a jacquard vest that takes us further north, and a spearpoint shirt collar with added gangster appeal. All worn with the attitude of an irreverent Britpop icon—parkas buttoned and tracksuits zipped right to the top.

This season, the unmistakable and always impeccable Fursac tailoring experiments with shapes throughout the years—including with a pair of lightly boot-cut trousers—with a focus on deconstructed unlined jackets. Here, suits, overcoats, and trench coats are worn with a football scarf adorned with a double F logo designed by Ljbtn or a pair of sunglasses crafted by the expert eyewear designer Ingénieur Chevallier. When a tie is needed, it is paired with a subtle pink shirt or a polka dot pattern reproduced to scale. The collection plays with the codes of tailoring, such as a sweater draped over a pink tweed jacket with matching color socks that add a British twist to the very French nonchalance. Not forgetting items drawn from archive pieces, such as a double press-stud down jacket fitted with a pair of removable mittens to protect against extreme cold.

The new collection, marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter following Fursac’s 50th anniversary in 2023, will be brought to life during the Autumn-Winter '24/'25 Paris Fashion Week at the mythical Parisian concert venue La Maroquinerie. The exceptional lineup will see Miles Kane and Zed Yun Pavarotti take center stage, artfully dressed in Fursac with a set worthy of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The many pieces and looks will be postered around the venue to complete an unforgettable evening.