Coperni Fall 2025: Ready Player One
Coperni founders Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant like to take their guests on a trip. This season, it was to the brand new Adidas Arena on the edge of Paris, where the brand had gathered 200 players for an old-fashioned LAN — local area network — party.
It was an ode to the community of those early days of the internet, when gamers would haul their PCs and sleeping bags to a convention center or church basement for marathon sessions fueled by pizza and energy drinks.
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“It was a bunch of geeks getting together and having fun,” said Meyer, a self-described fellow geek. “There was a humanity in that, and that’s what we want to show.”
Guests, including rappers Ice Spice and Tokischa, sat between the players as models snaked their way through the cavernous venue in looks inspired by hacker culture and video games. Singer Theodora showed up with a super-long prop rifle. “It’s like choose your own player,” Vaillant noted.
There were schoolgirls in sailor dresses (no prizes for identifying manga hero Sailor Moon) and thigh belts à la Lara Croft, as modeled by Lila Moss in an otherwise unremarkable outfit consisting of a gray turtleneck, black shorts and knee-high boots.
Zip-up leather jackets worn with miniskirts, knee-high socks and the brand’s new Five-Toes sneaker channeled the snarling attitude of Millennial heroine Lisbeth Salander in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” but there were plenty of slinky evening looks, too.
They included a fun, glossy red quilted bustier gown — a reference to those sleeping bags — and a thigh-slit number covered in dense beading to evoke TV static. But these were likely only for show.
Originally known for their sleek tailoring, the duo have pushed the label in a more casual direction that sometimes borders on merch.
This season’s collaborations included a Tamagotchi version of their signature Swipe bag and the launch of Ray-Ban Meta’s first fashion partnership, a pair of connected Wayfarer sunglasses produced in a limited edition of 3,600.
As models took their final lap, the amateur and professional players gathered by French esports team Gentle Mates barely lifted their eyes from their screens. You can take the player out of the game, but you can’t take the game out of the player.
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