LONDON — Traditionally, tailored clothing and athletic wear have sat on opposite sides of the international football pitch, with players wearing one for travel and formal occasions, and the opposite for play.

Martine Rose and Nike have disrupted that model, stitched the 2 together and created a set of tailored suiting that provides recent intending to the term “sportswear.”

The gathering, Nike x Martine Rose, includes a player’s suit jacket, a pair of trousers, a trench and a shirt designed for female football players and based on British tailoring codes.

The gathering can be released later this month to coincide with the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup soccer games, and marks a significant moment for Rose, and for Nike.

“It’s a primary for Nike to do tailoring, and that in itself is de facto exciting, and a privilege to have done,” Rose told WWD, describing the gathering as “greater than just tailoring. It’s in regards to the women wearing it, it’s about strength, resilience, beauty, power. I wanted the ladies to feel powerful, like the lads often do.” 

Rose added: “Greater than that, it’s a suit, there’s no gender attached. It starts a conversation about gender, and hopefully, in the future, we aren’t talking about gender in sport, and it’s just in regards to the sport.”

She said that designing the gathering and understanding women’s football specifically “has been an enormous learning curve and an eye-opener for me. It has been a journey I actually have passed through with Nike.”

Football culture and athletic wear have at all times formed a giant a part of Rose’s collections, and this shouldn’t be the primary time that Nike and Rose, whose work is inspired by subcultures, diverse communities and cultures on the perimeter of mainstream society, have thrust women’s football into the highlight.

In 2021, the Nike x Martine Rose “The Lost Lionesses” Jersey was a genderless tribute to England’s women’s team of 1971, which was written out of the history books despite its achievements.

The jersey was released in tandem with a virtual experience and film called “The Lost Lionesses.” It marked 50 years for the reason that English female football team, made up of ladies ages 13 to 21, traveled to Mexico City to compete within the Women’s World Cup.

As a part of the experience, Rose created a 3D snapshot of a British public housing estate, complete with laundrettes, shop fronts and English flags. Once viewers made their way through this virtual landscape, they were invited to look at a movie by Rose and the photographer Rosie Marks showing a mixed forged of characters playing football in every single place from the corridors of their apartment blocks to makeshift indoor pitches.

Artists, models and athletes — including an ex-professional Recent Zealand player; a footballer playing for a disability team in London, and the primary female referee at an English football league match — got here together within the short film, which was a prelude to Nike x Martine Rose.

The navy jacket and trousers are constructed from one hundred pc wool and are manufactured in Italy. Each styles feature a repeated “M” pattern as a jacquard knit, and the trousers even have a Nike x Martine Rose tag above the back pocket, an adaptation of the authentic team label on Nike football replica kits.

There may be also a beige and navy trench that comes with extra sleeves attached on the shoulders. The added sleeves could be worn in the back of the jacket or tied on the front, a nod to the football scarves typically worn by fans within the stands.

The ditch is stamped with a globe constructed from Nike swooshes on the left sleeve, while the shirt has a Martine Rose crest, a swoosh and a mock “Martine” sponsor’s logo.

The crest is inspired by the Croydon coat of arms, which nods to the south London area where Rose was born. The shield, in the middle of that crest, resembles an iron, and there may be also graphic Rose motif that reflects patterns commonly related to football.

Rose and Nike have also created Air Sheer Stockings, a knee-high sock produced in nylon/spandex mix; Echo Shield Sunglasses with co-branding on the frame, and a recent iteration of last yr’s Nike x Martine Rose Shox MR4, in three refreshed colorways.

The brand new footwear is a fusion of a dress shoe; the Nike Shox R4, and the Shox MR4. Rose and Nike manipulated proportions to stretch the unique silhouette right into a mule shape, lifted the heel and squared off the toe, adding a proper edge to the design.

The 2023 Nike x Martine Rose collection can be available globally starting on July 25 on martine-rose.com and thru select Nike stockists from July 27.