Under Armour’s Football-Kit Leather Jackets Go Hard (EXCLUSIVE)
“Football is my lifeblood; it is often also the inspiration and paint for my creativity,” 424’s founder and creative director, Guillermo Andrade, told Highsnobiety ahead of the brand’s first Paris fashion show. Later that day, former footballer Robert Pires and Tottenham left-back Destiny Udogie would walk the runway. One of the standout items was a leather jacket printed with a vintage R9 Brazil shirt.
It was probably the craziest jacket the LA menswear label had made — nobody has ever thought to print a legendary football kit onto leather before — at least since its viral David Beckham jacket from the year previous. And now, ahead of the 2026 World Cup, Andrade’s got more top-top-tier football leathers up his sleeve. His leather sleeve.
Highsnobiety got an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Andrade's custom jackets made for Germany’s Antonio Rüdiger.
The Real Madrid centre-half pulled up to Germany’s World Cup training camp wheeling a Rimowa suitcase covered in 424 x Under Armour stickers and dressed in the two brand’s upcoming track pants, where an Under Armour logo is split between the two legs, and a co-branded T-shirt where the tiniest of raw-edged sleeves makes way for a long-sleeve waffle baselayer.
The pièces de résistance were presumably hiding in his bag: Two leather jackets, one with the German national colors printed on the sleeves and another with the badge of a fictional 424 x Under Armour football team on the chest. Rüdiger's teammate Malick Thaw also got one of the jackets, although his was painted white with bits of black leather peaking out from beneath.
For now, these are exclusives for a select number of footballers, but that won’t always be the case.
424 is returning to Paris next month for Fashion Week, where it’ll provide a better look at what it’s got cooking with Under Armour. Then, next year, the collaboration officially arrives.
That sounds like a lot of waiting, but at least the promise of football-themed leather jackets is becoming a reality. Some of us have been waiting for this since that custom Beckham jacket from 2024.
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