French Stade Toulousain had been working at it for seven years. Last Saturday, the club from the south-west of France was crowned Champion of France for the seventeenth time in Paris, following a 26-20 victory over Clermont.

The current issue of Italian Vanity Fair celebrates this victory with Fashion Rugby, an editorial shot by Giampaolo Vimercati. French team members Grégory Lamboley, Shaun Sowerby and Byron Kelleher surround top-model Omahyra. Winger Vincent Clerc — unable to play the final because of a knee sprain — is here as well, his hairy chest exposed. Byron does a bit of that, too.

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Stade Toulousain
Vanity Fair
Giampaolo Vimercati Photography
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