Le maillot: One size fits all

Le Maillot - One Size Fits All brings together performers from dance, photography, fashion, video, athletics to reimagine the meanings attached to the football shirt. What begins as a familiar gesture from the field, pulling an opponent’s jersey, is stretched, deconstructed, and transformed into new forms of movement and storytelling. I followed the rehearsals through an ethnographic lens, combining field observation with intimate photography that captures the textures of the group’s process. Week after week, the shirt becomes a fabric of memory and identity, a stage for intimacy as much as for performance. It carries with it nations, clubs, sponsors, villages, couture, and the personal histories of those who wear it. The photos traces how these rehearsals turn the football shirt into a site where individual narratives and collective formation intersect. Football became a way to choreograph belonging, experiment with design, and express stories through the body.