424 and Under Armour elevate football kits with leather streetwear pieces

424 and Under Armour have taken football kit into sharper, richer territory: leather jackets, co-branded track pants and a T-shirt set that pushes Guillermo Andrade’s long-running obsession with the game into luxury streetwear. The most striking pieces read less like standard team merch and more like a coded uniform for fashion people who understand the appeal of the kit.

The leather outerwear does the heaviest lifting. One jacket shown with footballers carries German national colors down the sleeves, while another wears a fictional 424 x Under Armour football-team badge across the chest. Those details matter because they shift the language of football from sponsor-heavy performance wear into something more collectible, more stylized and a lot closer to the runway than the terrace.

For 424, that move fits a pattern that has been building for years. Guillermo Andrade founded the label in Los Angeles as FourTwoFour on Fairfax, and football has repeatedly surfaced in the brand’s work, from runway references in Paris to a 2024 leather biker jacket inspired by David Beckham’s 2003-04 Real Madrid kit. The Under Armour link makes that fixation feel less like a one-off homage and more like a serious design lane.

Under Armour has been building the right roster for that shift. The brand has been expanding its football presence with Antonio Rüdiger, Malick Thiaw, Pedro Porro, Fermín López, Eddie Nketiah, Lewis Hall, Ansgar Knauff and Anna Patten, and it treats collaborations as part of athlete storytelling. That matters here: the company is not just lending a logo to 424’s aesthetic. It is using football as a narrative engine, and 424 is giving that story a cleaner, more fashion-forward silhouette.

The collaboration is still tightly controlled. The leather pieces are exclusive to footballers for now, but the full project is set to get a bigger reveal at Paris Fashion Week next month before it officially reaches stores next year. That staggered rollout says plenty about where football style sits in 2026: not as a niche reference, but as a fully formed luxury-streetwear language, one that now has leather lapels, co-branded badges and a much wider audience waiting behind it.