He's no Cisse… QPR hitman dressed to kill as Morpheus from the Matrix

Queens Park Rangers have no wins but still hope in the shape of dangerman Djibril Cisse as they fight for Premier League survival.

The France striker has scored twice this season for Mark Hughes' side – including Sunday's crucial equaliser against fellow strugglers Reading. And now the 31-year-old has posed up as Morpheus from the Matrix movie series to highlight his hitman credentials.

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Star attraction: Cisse poses up in Trapstar x Hitman clothing to promote a video game

Are you Cisse in disguise Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus (centre) stars in The Matrix Reloaded, 2003

Cisse, who has played 41 times for France, has a keen eye for fashion – take a look at the Colin Young feature below.

He's pictured here (above) wearing clothing from the Trapstar x Hitman collaboration, a clothing range to promote video game Hitman: Absolution, which is released on November 20.

THE DAY I WAS TURNED INTO A CISSE, BY SPORTSMAIL'S COLIN YOUNG (original report: 2009)

The phone goes. It's the boss. 'Djibril Cisse owns a fashion shop. We
want you to go down there and get him to dress you, let him bling you up
a bit.'

Now, I have seen Djibril Cisse's wedding photos – red suit, matching
trilby, shiny white shoes – and I have seen him turn up for training in
his 'casual' attire. When you see him, you have to stand back and take
in the view.

Before: Colin Young, smart Sportsmail reporter.

After: Colin Young, king of bling.

No wonder, then, that the call from the sports desk left them
chuckling and me with a heavy heart. I knew friends and colleagues would
find the resulting photographs extremely amusing – although my
mortified children and wife might not. And it may have taken him some
time to fix up a meeting, but Cisse, then of Sunderland, was up for it, too.

So to
the unscrupulous member of the Sunderland press office who has
distributed these disturbing images, and to my colleagues who have
threatened me with blackmail and claim I'm committing professional
suicide, I say this: I care not. Cisse liked the cut of my Djib.

Cisse's
shop is called The Pr9ject – the '9' represents his shirt number at
Sunderland – and he has taken the brave decision to base it in a row of
modern units in Newcastle's Forth Street, behind Central Station,
opposite The Telegraph pub.

The France international is a
frequent visitor to the shop, which is run on a daily basis by manager
Emmy Offiong. 'His schedule at this time of the season means he is in
less,' she said. 'But he is very hands-on, he is always very relaxed and
calm, loves meeting and talking to the customers, making suggestions,
putting clothes back on the hangers and marking the prices.'

Cap that: Djibril Cisse is sceptical about the headgear…

And as if to demonstrate the point, Cisse helped Emmy choose the
outfits to 'model'. The first ensemble is meant to be a casual look to
replace a working suit. So here we go . . .

The star of the
show is the Hype Means Nothing T-shirt, 55, with a picture of rapper
Kanye West on the front. This Paris-based label, which also features
similar shots of Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Marilyn Monroe and
Charlie Chaplin, is currently flying off the racks in Pr9ject and the
boutique is one of the few in the country to stock it.

This
outfit was completed by white Front trainers (40), black Qhuit jeans
(70) and a black zip-up top by Amalguessous which comes in at 440.

When
myself and photographer Graham Chadwick spotted a Marvel Comics jacket,
with similar baseball cap, I just had to try it on. Cisse – who was
dressed in black adidas tracksuit and a Homer Simpson T-shirt he had
bought in America – looked distinctly unimpressed.

And no wonder. I looked like a cross between Timmy Mallett and Kevin The Teenager.

Cisse's
disapproving 'tut' echoed round the shop. 'Never to the side,' he says,
making me shift the large cap almost over my eyes. 'That was the
Eighties.' Which, in fairness, is probably the last time I wore a
baseball cap.

…while Young rules out a 3,000 pair of trainers…

…and provides comic relief in the Marvel jacket.

The brief for the second outfit was to find clothes which offered a
more colourful insight into the wares on sale in Pr9ject. Cisse – and
Emmy in particular – went to town, coming up with an outfit which would
have given me little change from 1,300.

Even then she spared
me the 3,000 trainers, a copy of a pair recently purchased by Obafemi
Martins' agent, and instead paraded me in the gold, yes gold, Supra
trainers (95) which are the most popular shoes in the shop.

The
outrageous Red Monkey jeans really caught the eye, but then that is
probably the intention at 699. These are handmade denim, can never be
washed, only steam-cleaned, and they eventually mould to the shape of
your legs. When I popped down to see Cisse, he was very impressed. It
was only a slight nod in my direction, but it was good enough for me.

Nothing
will ever convince me to buy the Christian Audigier T-shirt, and it was
not just the 420 price label which put me off. American rap stars,
actors or presidents yes, garish colours in Extra Large, I don't think
so.

Looking good, Mr Y…

After us, Cisse's next appointment was to meet 'a friend' from the
Hype Means Nothing range at the station. And, with true Cisse
extravagance, he climbed into his enormous blue Rolls-Royce and drove
the full half-mile round the one-way system to fetch his colleague.

So
why does a millionaire footballer spend his time and money on a venture
which could, if Sunderland fail to offer him a permanent deal, be
holding a closing-down sale at the end of May

'It is to show
the way I see clothes and fashion to the people,' said Cisse. 'It is a
different style but it is what I like and my advice to people would be
to just come and look, see if they see something. If they don't . . .'
Another shrug of the shoulders.

'The boutique is something
I've had planned for a while. I come in after training for a few hours
if I can, have a mooch around, help out a bit and go back home.

'We
have items here you will not find anywhere else. The idea is
exclusivity and something different. If there was one word for it, it is
different.'

If the shirt fits: Cisse offers a helping hand to his less than willing model…

HITMAN: ABSOLUTION is scheduled for release across North America, Europe and PAL territories on November 20, 2012 for the PlayStation3 computer entertainment system, Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC. Watch the video HERE