According to the show notes, the inspirational starting point for the collection was Golf de Chantaco, a tree-lined course in St.-Jean-de-Luz that was owned by the label's namesake founder, René Lacoste, and his wife, Simone Thion de la Chaume. The trees that grew throughout the nearly 125-acre course — some 50,000 in all — were planted by a handful of groundskeepers in the family's employ during the German occupation of France during World War II. The ambitious tree-planting project was undertaken to take advantage of a curious German law, which exempted forestry workers from being sent off to perform forced labor in Germany.
At Paris Fashion Week, Lacoste walks in the woods, goes golfing and tries to save some species
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