When, in 2015, US-based fitness and fashion enthusiast Stan Cheung was looking for gym wear that would both perform well and look stylish, he wasn’t happy with the options. “I was on the search for comfortable essentials that could be worn for a workout, going out for coffee, attending meetings or even going out to lunch. I ended up taking my existing gym clothes to the tailor to have them re-engineered. I couldn’t find what I was looking for so I decided to make it myself.”
The result was EYSOM (which stands for Exercise Your State Of Mind), a new athleisure label that specialises in, as Cheung says, “taking true performance gym wear and making it versatile enough to wear anywhere while looking elegant and stylish.” The new collection – an extension of last season’s core gym wear – moves the brand further into the lifestyle arena, with a broader range of clothes including jackets, cardigans, hoodies and sweatshirts. Our pick is the on-trend bomber (above).
The shoe that’s ready for anything
Designing shoes for CrossFit athletes isn’t the easiest footwear gig in the world. The whole point of the all-round fitness movement is that one minute you could be doing an Olympic lift and the next you could be sprinting. Reebok’s new Nano 6.0 accounts for that
Reebok Nano 6.0 £89.95
