Sporty Spice Is Wearing Adidas Track Pants Again, and All Is Right in the World
For all the odd-girls-out who felt a connection to the tough Spice Girl with tomboy charm, here’s a gift for you: She’s back.
OK, not for good, as in the British babes are back (those rumors have been refuted), but for a magazine spread. Anyone who still follows the Spice Girls (basically all girls raised in the ‘90s) knows that Melanie Chisholm, better known as Mel C., ditched her track pants, sports bras, and high ponies for a more mature look soon after the group parted ways. And while her sophisticated style of cutout dresses and ombre hair is great, those tracksuits have been sorely missed. And now, with Adidas’s high-fashion revival and the brand’s signature three-stripes in vogue again, Love magazine went to the woman partly responsible for the clothing’s trendiness two decades (!) ago.
What’s even better is that the publication paired her old-school looks with high-end accessories in true athleisure style, to turn her into a sort of Posh/Sporty hybrid. It’s as if Victoria Beckham had dressed Mel C. for a day.
For example, in one photo, Chisholm, whose new solo album Version of Me comes out in October, wears a fur mitt by Dsquared on top, with navy tracksuit bottoms from Modes and More.
The best photo of the bunch, though, has got to be one in which she’s captured mid-backflip in black original tracksuit bottoms by Adidas, a bandeau, and an arm cuff created from fabric from Cloth House. It’s just reminds us of the good ol’ days.
Along with the photoshoot, Chisholm put together a letter for the magazine about fame. “I often feel sorry for young people in the public eye now. They can’t even let their hair down without their lives being in turmoil,” she writes of the digital age.
She also cleared the air about whether or not she’d be reuniting with her bandmates. “Truth be told, earlier this year, after several face-to-face meetings with the girls, I made the difficult decision not to be part of a proposed reunion with Emma, Geri and Melanie,” she admitted, crushing dreams all over the globe. “Victoria had already bowed out understandably, with the demands of her fashion label and her rather large family,” she added.
“The hardest part for me was letting people down, the girls, the fans, civilisation?! Unfortunately something didn’t feel quite right, and I had to follow my gut.”
Truth be told, it’s understandable. “For me, the absolute pinnacle of my Spice existence was being watched by a billion people around the globe belting out “Spice Up Your Life” on top of a black cab at the 2012 London Olympics,” she recalled. “Anything less than the full lineup just didn’t feel like we’d be doing justice to the band or the fans.”
So, it sounds like if we convince Beckham to do it, Mel C. would be on board. Who’s got Vicky’s number?!