Antoine Auriol - kitesurfer, model, photographer, composer.... and the renewed face of LACOSTE

Antoine Auriol appears to be able to fly. When he discovered windsurfing in Brittany at the age of 15, it marked the beginning, as his true talent later turned out to be kiteboarding.

Since 2006, he has been counted amongst the top three of this sports discipline and besides sponsors, the fashion world has also shown an interest in him: he is once more the face of the LACOSTE fragrance campaign. Lacoste first noticed the young Adonis in an editorial in BOOKLET magazine.

The French-German multi-talent lives in the Spanish summer dream of Cadiz, the Andalusian beach resort, which also happens to provide ideal training opportunities for his water sport practise.

He takes photographs on his travels, for example through India and composed the music for his ‘Early Times’ kitesurf DVD.

He is currently in Mexico, which he will leave the day after tomorrow to head towards Cancun, where he will relaise a secret project at one of the best hotels in Playa del Carmen. We are looking forward to finding out more!

We have attached the motifs from the Lacoste fragrance campaign, which presents the kitesurfer from one of his many good sides. Francois Rousseau was the photographer.

To find out more on Antoine Auriol, his projects and the Kiteboard Pro World Tour, go see his website.