Athleisure: (not)sports wardrobe

This style is already fit to call not athleisure (athletic + leisure), but athcasual or even athbusiness. Elements of sporting style are so firmly embedded in the wardrobes that there is no longer any possibility (and let’s be honest) any desire to expel them from there, even if it is not a Sunday walk in the Park, but an average formal business lunch. Athleisure, in my opinion, is the fifth big trend for this year, and probably several subsequent ones (until they finally invent some exoskeleton printed on a 3D printer for mass production, or we all change into spacesuits). We have already analyzed the four previous trends: the 80’s, 90’s, post-Soviet Gopnik style and inventive layering. Continue reading →