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High Fashion Hits The Rails With Lacroix-Designed French Train Uniforms

Over the last few years, there's been a rash of fashion designers teaming up with travel brands to smarten up the employees with new, name-brand and specially designed uniforms. It hearkens back to the partnership of Braniff Airlines and Emilio Pucci, and these days we think of the Delta Richard Tyler uniforms or the Ted Baker suits and DC shoes at The Hotel on Rivington, but who says that trains can't get into the game as well? France's SNCF trains are proving that they can be stylish as well, since some 20,000 of their train system employees will don new duds from French haute couture designer Christian Lacroix in the next few months.

The new suits, pictured above, are "gray and purple and include blouses, skirts and jackets for women, and pants, jackets and striped shirts for men." We remember back in 2006 when the TGV and Tézo trains got his designer treatment for their interiors, but it's about time that the whole system saw some purple.

The economy has not been kind to Monsieur Lacroix however, since he's recently been reduced to a licensing operation and the haute couture shut down. Good thing he's always got his travel partnerships to fall back on, because he's kind of a veteran at this thing, having designed uniforms for Air France and the interior of Paris' Hotel du Petit Moulin. Now he just needs to design new, funky Velib bikes and a Renault, and he'll have a monopoly on French travel fashion.

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[Photo: WWD, The Cool Hunter]