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Fashion has always used the surrounding world as an inspiration, and this includes of course, sports. Baseball and football jerseys have been inspiring fashion designers for quite a few years already, and with street style fashion becoming mainstream and people wearing athletic wear every day, it's no wonder that designer still continue taking inspiration from sportswear every season. But like many other big trends, there's always a fresh perspective to everything, and lately it has been a shift from baseball and football, to sports like motocross, surfing, boxing and soccer.

 

Especially things like motocross looking pants and shorts that have elements from boxing shorts have been on trend for a few years now too. But today many street style stars are taking things even further, and buying actual motocross pants and boxing shorts, to wear with items from their closets. Many have also worn things like fishing vests and fisherman suspenders out and no wonder, since they look very similar to clothing that's on trend right now.

  Designers have also been inspired by sports that we haven't seen on runways a lot. For example Calvin Klein being inspired by the movie Jaws and creating garments from wetsuit material, and many designers like Prada, being inspired by hiking and rock climbing, and using elements from these outdoor activity wear to inspire their ready-to-wear lines. Gosha Rubchinskiy also collaborated with Adidas to create soccer jerseys, which we've seen both soccer players and normal consumers wear.

 

So, we're already seeing designer's being more creative with the sports they're inspired by and street style stars wearing authentic sportswear everyday, so what we can expect in the near future is definitely more of this, just in a larger scale. It could be very likely that sports like lacrosse or martial arts could be the next big thing inspiring designers, or that street style stars would start wearing authentic ice hockey or horse riding gear outside. But whatever the next big thing is, one thing I'm sure of: Sports won't stop inspiring fashion anytime soon.