It might be time to prise those long-forgotten leggings from the darkest recesses of your wardrobe. Those humble elastics that Maya Singer once described as the defining look of the 2010s – in line with the decline of traditional office jobs and the increasing fitness focus of the culture – returned during the autumn/winter 2025 shows. But if you think this is but another bout of nostalgia, one glance at the collections below will quickly put that theory to rest. Those elastics – perhaps the very pair you vowed never to wear again, at least not since Flo Rida last topped the charts – feel surprisingly “now”.

Adanola

Ultimate Leggings £40

Adanola

We Norwegians

Merino Wool Ski Leggings £130

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