Le Bandeau Ventoux Bra — Pink, Size M

Le Bandeau Ventoux comes from La Montagne, Simon Porte Jacquemus's Fall/Winter 2021 collection, the first seasonless, coed show the house staged, with the clothes on sale the moment it ended. Jacquemus is usually read through Provençal sun and bare skin. Here the same exposure is rebuilt in merino knitwear and zip hardware, borrowing the logic of a mountain base layer. The name shares its root with Mont Ventoux, the Provençal peak, so the sportswear reference stays close to the designer's own geography. Its siblings in the collection, the Valensole knit bralette and the brushed Neve, stay soft and simple; this one is built like a cut-down sweater, paneled, colorblocked and zipped.

The body is a paneled rib knit, merino wool in one panel and a viscose-blend rib in the other, both worked in tones of pink so the contrast stays tonal: pale blush set against saturated bubblegum. The bandeau twists across the front and wraps the shoulders and neck, which leaves the back open. A zip closes at the collar and a second runs down the chest, both in gold-tone hardware set against the rib. The knit is dense but stretches easily, sits snug to the body, and is cut to a cropped 5.1 in length, collar excluded. The panel seams are exposed, so the construction reads as part of the design rather than something hidden.

Read plainly, it is a ski-lodge turtleneck cut down to the sternum: part base layer, part bandeau, with a zipper doing the work a neckline usually does. The zips give it the practical, utilitarian tone of mountain gear, while the open back pulls it back toward the beach-bound sensuality Jacquemus is known for. It works as the hinge between the house's two moods, alpine in its materials and Mediterranean in its exposure. Size M.