The next time you compliment a colleague on their Breton top, don’t be surprised if the response is, ‘It’s Lacroix, sweetie.’

The designer is collaborating with cult Parisian label Petit Bateau on a capsule collection – four pieces for women, two for children – which is set to go on sale in Petit Bateau stores and at the Opéra Garnier boutique in Paris on 6 December, WWD reports.

We totally made that up about the Breton top, by the way – but, fresh from creating a , we can’t wait to see what the master of design reinvention really does.