From suburbs to suburbs

To you, dear outskirts,
you are not an elsewhere, you are a here and now.
You are not the margin, but memory.
You are the first pitch we ran across, the first low wall where we dreamed, the first streetlight that stayed on even when the rest of the world went dark.

Your soul hasn’t faded, you’ve stayed the same.
From Milan to Naples, there’s always a street that tells your story. Apartment blocks looking at each other, a concrete maze in which no one truly gets lost.
Your windows, an urban beehive, look out over parked bikes, walls covered in graffiti, and bars that time forgot — yet still hold the secrets and hopes of entire generations.

Here, nothing is just passing through, everything remains.
Faces, voices, stories. That authentic sense of community and identity that resists change.
In the suburbs, a greeting is not just polite but a symbol of belonging. And meeting up doesn’t follow calendars or appointments; people cross paths because they know each other, because they belong.

Among those monolith homes, style becomes language.
A jersey becomes a totem, something to gather around, and it has never lost its meaning. Beyond blokecore, beyond the Paris runways.

That’s why I’m writing to you, outskirts. Because you are the beginning of everything, even when the world looks the other way.
Because under the neon lights of your endless stairwells, ideas are born that don’t need a stage to shine.
Aesthetic movements emerge without asking for permission.

Football, as well as those who come from you, carries a different voice. Rougher. Realer.

Stay real. With love.

As part of Les Vêtements de Football – The Golden Age of Football Jerseys, we collaborated with Foot Locker on two editorials, one dedicated to Naples and the other to Milan, to authentically portray the suburbs and their cultural impact on the world of football.

Les Vêtements de Football – The Golden Age of Football Jerseys is a project by nss sports dedicated to the golden era of football shirts. It will be officially launched in New York during the final days of the 2025 Club World Cup, in collaboration with Classic Football Shirts, Million Goods, and with a party at Regina's Grocery. The New York event dates will be announced soon, along with the stores and venues in Europe and around the world where the book will be available and presented.

The preorder is available now on our e-commerce at this link.