I've had a year to adjust to the black capri leggings trend, yet I still haven't tried it. The more designers from Ferragamo and Rotate to Tory Burch and Coperni pushed pedal pushers on their runways, the more I resisted. I couldn't shake the associations with the early 2000s and recession fashion, even when mood boards displayed references like Brigette Bardot and Audrey Hepburn. Then came Hailey Bieber's outfit for a trip to Sushi Park on April 17—and the evidence that I shouldn't hold out on capri leggings after all.
The Rhode Skin founder built an outfit around her knee-grazing pants that made them a lot less intimidating and entirely modern. Bieber swapped her previous night's bubble hem coat-dress for a sweeping khaki trench by Mango. Underneath, she added a pair of high-rise, black capri leggings by Magda Butrym with a split hem and a white T-shirt. Her go-to To-Go tote by The Row was nowhere in sight, replaced by Saint Laurent's Y Tote. She also swapped her Coachella belt buckle flip-flops for strappy sandal kitten heels.
