Santini celebrates the stages of the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift

In July, the cycling world will be traveling to France in anticipation of the great heat on the climbs of the Alps and Pyrenees. Santini celebrates the Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes with Zwift 2023 with outfits that tell some of the stories of some of the stages through colors and graphics dedicated to the territory or history of the destination.

Tour de France Stages Collection

Santini celebrates the Tour de France with five outfits dedicated to the significant stages of the 2023 edition, making a complete kit for each one with a jersey, bibshorts, baselayer, socks, gloves, and cap.

The first proposal called Gran Départ is dedicated to Bilbao: the colors chosen for these garments are those of the Basque flag: green, red, and white. The color choices are mixed with symbols of the territory, such as the Basque cross or the profile of local monuments, both of which are featured in the design. Also, there’s the number 110, signifying the 110th edition of the Tour de France, and the word „Euskadi”, the Basque name for the region.

The seventh stage will start from Mont de Marsan and finish in Bordeaux, a city that gives its name to the Santini outfit dedicated to this stage: the namesake color, the same as the red wine famous in these vineyard areas, and the fluid movement of wine poured into a glass characterize the design of the garments.

The Puy de Dôme, the sleeping volcano in France, is the protagonist of the ninth stage of the Tour de France 2023, a climb that witnessed the historic duel between Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor in the stage Brive-La-Gaillarde – Puy de Dôme during the 1964 Tour. That moment became iconic precisely because of this „elbow to elbow” challenge, as documented in the newspapers of the time. The photo of that moment was on the cover of L’Equipe and it’s the background of the jersey dedicated to the ninth stage of the Tour 2023. The colors chosen for this kit are blue and yellow.

Stage 17 of the Tour de France 2023 is a massive mountain stage: it starts in Saint-Gervais-Mont Blanc and arrives in Courchevel, at an altitude of 2,010 meters. One of the most renowned ski resorts, Courchevel, is located in the French department of Savoie, and the very colors of the ski slope classification (green, blue, red, and black) are used to create a pattern on the Santini garments dedicated to this stage.

To tell the story of the magic of the last stage of the Tour de France and celebrate the arrival on the Champs-Élysées and the Place L’Étoile, Santini created the Triumph kit. The shape of the square inspired the design of the garments: the square is central to the many streets that spread out from the center of it like the rays of a star. The colors selected are those of the French tricolor flag, and the yellow details are a callback to the Grande Boucle.

In addition to the replicas of the four leader jerseys for the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift athletes, Santini is making a women’s outfit dedicated to the stage week of the 2023 edition that will end on the Col du Tourmalet. An ascent is among the most iconic of the Tour de France; this climb over the French Pyrenees has appeared since 1910. At the top of the pass, besides the statue of Octave Lapize, there is a small bar with a „stepped” roof, and its unique shape was used to create the design of the kit.