Club colours
No longer a symbol of affiliation and conformity, tracksuits are the domain of dissidents who seek to break the rules.
Remember physical education? Or perhaps there are some who don’t because they were too busy cutting class to hang out in hidden corners in their tracksuits. Once the uniform of those who conformed – to a team, a school, a country – the spirit of subversion sees designers like Alexander Wang reworking basketball shorts and Donatella Versace doing sultry windbreakers. The key is rethinking the athletic staple and retaking it with a football hooligan-like disregard for rules; a Chas Tenenbaum-esque tendency to walk to your own beat. The attitude guides the styling: a cropped zipped jacket or jersey with jeans and heels for day, or wear it all together with sneakers to an evening engagement. The tracksuit once meant representing your team with pride – it’s now about flying the colours for yourself. Alice Birrell