Shopping is a Sport

Check out the pieces — buy one, some or none.

More importantly, become inspired.

Complex Geometries Sad Rainbow Sweatshirt, $139 @ CG webstore

Marjan Pejoski leggings, 29,500kr (Icelandic) @ Kron Kron

Balenciaga knit dress, £440 @ Browns Fashion

Henrik Vibskov drop crotch jersey sweatpants, $249 @ Boutique Reborn

Football leggings, $62 @ The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

YMC wrestling boot tennis shoes, $60 @ Gargyle

Bless baseball cap with attached scarf/hood, $499 @ Boutique Reborn

Kokon To Zai embroidered track pants, $289 @ Farfetch

Miu Miu sequined bomber jacket, $3,135 @ Net-A-Porter

Miu Miu over the knee socks, $289 @ Net-A-Porter

Fad-3 shirt, ¥15,750 @ Alley Company

Antipodium hole-in-one bodysuit, $139 @ MyCatwalk

La March Merveille green jeans, ¥15,000 @ Alley Company

Where Sports Meets Fashion

The blatant sportswear influence in Miuccia Prada's Miu Miu FW0809 collection — color-blocked jumpsuits, long-sleeve netted onesies and track jackets worn with cone-shaped heels and bright skullcaps — made some mixed reactions amongst friends and peers in the "fashion community," but I knew Miuccia's athletic expression in the hardly wearable clothes would serve as inspiration to me and many others.

The influence in design and function of sport is actually quite pragmatic and refreshing, two elements I'd believe to be necessary for selling clothes at a time when 1) economy's in the dump and 2) retail sales are down, way down. And while maybe none of the aforementioned designers' collections are exactly

"wearable," looks from designers like Raf Simons sleek, slim silhouettes for men, Balenciaga's austere, architectural forms and Undercover's spacey, tailored outerwear could be, has been, styled in sporty fashion in magazines. The look is more than believable, it's a reality. A sexy one at that.

And thank be to independent designers like Romain Kremer and Louis Goldin who on their own have integrated the aesthetics of sport making the surreal sleek linebacker-chic a reality on the runway. In them lies fashion's actual optimism; their exploratory trips on what's possible and "impossible" makes dreams played out in editorials and from your closets onto the streets.

Maybe you buy this, maybe you don't, but this is the first set of three posts dedicated to you finding an inspiration, or at least appreciation, for what's sporty in fashion. On the next update, find store items — new, vintage, slightly pricey and those comparatively cheap — from a list of international shipping stores.

There's so much to look to!

VidFlip Episode IV: V Man

VMAN goes quarterly with their 11th issue this fall. Hedi Slimane shoots VMAN

Ford's model search winner Petey Wright (styled by Nicola Formichetti) for the

cover of the international mag. Five years after its inception, VMAN's delivers a

solid issue featuring faces Simon Nessman, Lucien Thompkins, Andrés Velencoso,

presenting clothing from this fall's Comme Des Garçons, Prada, Dior Homme,

Raf Simons and an ed shot by Karl Lagerfield, styled by Gareth Pugh. And for sure

chill with with cover star (and professional wrestler) Petey Wright at models.com

before or after you check out VMAN.com.