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If This. Then That: World Cup Edition — Dressing the Team — Loewe → Ibrahim Fernandez

If you understand why Loewe’s suit for Spain matters, you’ll recognize what Ibrahim Fernandez did for Côte d’Ivoire.

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Full-length Loewe x Spain travel wardrobe: navy blazer with the Spanish federation crest, blue polo and wide-leg trousers on a stadium pitch.

LOEWE

Loewe is the LVMH-owned Spanish house, and it signed a four-year deal to dress Spain's national teams off the pitch. The wardrobe, designed under creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, runs to tailoring, casualwear, footwear and leather goods. It is identity, not a kit. Debuts 2026.
Loewe Spain Travel Wardrobe Three-button blazer, wide-leg trousers, leather goods. A four-year partnership with the Spanish federation, debuting 2026.
Image via loewe.com

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A man in Ibrahim Fernandez's structured saffron-orange ceremonial jacket and white trousers, Cote d'Ivoire's off-pitch World Cup look by the Ivorian designer.

IBRAHIM FERNANDEZ

Ibrahim Fernandez is an Ivorian designer whose practice centers his country's dye traditions and regional craft. Commissioned by the national federation, he created the Elephants' off-pitch departure look for 2026: a structured jacket in flaming orange, fluid white trousers, and the nation's elephant totem hand-embroidered and beaded across the back. It shares Loewe's ambition but the ownership is its own. (Ceremonial, not the on-pitch kit.)
Ibrahim Fernandez Côte d’Ivoire Ceremonial Look Structured orange-and-saffron jacket, hand-beaded elephant, fluid white trousers. The Elephants’ off-pitch departure look, 2026.
Image via ibrahimfernandez.com

Fernandez is Ivorian, and he built his practice around the dye traditions and regional craft of Côte d’Ivoire. The departure jacket evokes artisanal dyeing in flaming orange, and the nation’s totem, an elephant, is hand-embroidered and beaded across the back. He showed the work at the Africa Now pop-up at Galeries Lafayette this month, with a limited collector edition produced in a numbered run bound by what the atelier’s hands can make.

Models in Ibrahim Fernandez's saffron-orange ceremonial jackets and white trousers, the Côte d'Ivoire Elephants' off-pitch departure look, posed against a rust-toned backdrop.
Ibrahim Fernandez ceremonial look for Cote d'Ivoire: men in structured saffron-orange jackets and white trousers, the Elephants' off-pitch World Cup wardrobe.
Three men standing in Ibrahim Fernandez's saffron-orange ceremonial jackets and white trousers, Cote d'Ivoire's off-pitch World Cup look.

Both houses dress a nation off the pitch. Both treat the wardrobe as identity. Both understand that a team can announce who it is before it plays.

The difference is ownership.

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Loewe x Spain travel wardrobe: navy blazer over a blue polo, worn pitchside ahead of the 2026 World Cup.

LOEWE

Loewe x Spain Travel Wardrobe
Spain's travel wardrobe exists because a heritage house agreed to lend its codes. The prestige is European, refined and borrowed beautifully. The team's identity here is supplied by an outside maison, and the luxury is imported and worn well.

Image via Loewe

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Ibrahim Fernandez ceremonial look for Cote d'Ivoire: men in structured saffron-orange jackets and white trousers, the Elephants' off-pitch World Cup wardrobe.

IBRAHIM FERNANDEZ

Côte d'Ivoire Ceremonial Look
Fernandez runs in the opposite direction. The ceremonial look is authored from within: the color, the dye and the elephant totem are the country's own. The prestige is generated at home, and the luxury and the story belong to Côte d'Ivoire.

Image via Ibrahim Fernandez

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