911 Carrera

Make
Porsche
Segment
Coupe

The worlds of fashion and classic cars will meet once again this month when German sports car marque Porsche and New York fashion label Aime Leon Dore publicly debut this: a uniquely restored Type-964 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 with Aime Leon Dore's distinct touch. Fashion label founder and creative director Teddy Santis spent months studying up before collaborating with Porsche on this project, visiting the Porsche Museum and the 911 assembly line in Stuttgart, where production of the all-new Type-992 is now underway.

The result is far less outlandish than that time AMC collaborated with Pierre Cardin to offer a Cardin-designed interior for the Javelin pony car, but it's every bit as tasty - and much rarer.

The one-off 911 restoration is most notable for its fully custom interior, which is trimmed in top-grain Schott sunflower leather, with Loro Piana houndstooth seat inserts and suede over the sunroof and headliner. That Schott leather even lines the inside of the trunk, along with some well-placed houndstooth inserts and a care bag inspired by some Porsche Classic designs.

Outside, the classic Porsche 911 Carrera 4 is shod in the same white as Aime Leon Dore's SoHo storefront in Manhattan, and it wears a classic "ducktail" spoiler like the legendary 911 Carrera RS 2.7. A custom badge devised just for this car adorns the rear grille, and on the front left fender, just below the fuel filler door, sits a custom Pegasus graphic inspired by past Porsche racing logos.

"Working together with Porsche on this project has been a dream come true," Santis says. "It has been a deeply humbling experience to be entrusted with a project of such importance to the Porsche community and to work together on a design that has been so instrumental in shaping my own outlook and aspirations."

This decidedly chic, custom-restored Porsche 911 will make a public appearance Friday, February 7 in the Aime Leon Dore runway show during New York Fashion Week, before going on display at New York's Jeffrey Deitch gallery until February 9.