Rio Olympics Set Pace for Spring/Summer 2016 Fashion

High style and the Olympics do not always make comfortable bedfellows—just ask the Norwegian curling team—but the podium look for spring/summer 2016 is unmistakably athletic. Expect to see tracksuits, vests and bright diagonal stripes, as Rio 2016 fever takes hold of fashion-aware wardrobes.

The starting pistol was fired at Paris Fashion Week, where the French label Chloé had fashion editors swooning over its luxe tracksuit tops. If Gucci’s furry loafer—a surreal shoe that reflected the season’s fondness for brainy, faux-vintage glamour—defined 2015, the tracksuit looks likely to characterize spring/summer 2016.