Staud x New Balance’s Latest Collaboration Brings More Fashion-Leaning Fitness—Shop it Here

The anticipated third collection of the ongoing Staud and New Balance collaboration has arrived. Last March 2019, CFDA Fashion Award nominee and designer of Staud, Sarah Staudinger, teamed up with New Balance for her brand’s first foray into activewear. Like Staud’s insta-viral ready-to-wear collections, the activewear pieces were equally as covetable, embodying Staud’s playful, bold, and colorful spirit in each piece.

For the third collection, which drops today, the focus is on the great outdoors. Staudinger explained to Vogue how the capsule “celebrates the outdoors, especially now that we can truly enjoy it again.” In designing the collection, Staudinger reflected on how she got creative while getting some fresh air. “I started to try new activities and sports like pickleball (which I have become embarrassingly obsessed with) and many of my friends started playing tennis. Others started boxing and running and hiking again, or tried new sports for the first time. We wanted to create a collection that offered the perfect pieces for all those moments and then some.”

Photo: Courtesy of Staud x New Balance

The collection offers a range of activewear for most every kind of outdoor recreation. There are traditional bike shorts and yoga pants (with coordinating sports bras and tanks) and tennis-ready skorts. And then there’s more fashion-leaning fitness wear with a style that’s a playful nod to boxing shorts with matching zip-up hoodies and shirred detailing and a beaded shoulder bag that features a tennis ball motif. Shoe-wise, there’s a colorful take on New Balance’s 57/40 sneakers that “represent the ultimate courtside style,” Staudinger says.

Photo: Courtesy of Staud x New Balance

Staudinger points out the liveable range of the collection: “While there are true activewear pieces throughout, there are also layering and lounge pieces. We wanted to offer a collection that can get you from boxing to brunch and beyond,” she says.

As for Staudinger’s favorite pieces? “It’s so hard to pick, but tennis is obviously having a moment, and the collection includes a lot of fun, unexpected details,” she says. “One of my favorites is a tennis dress with subtle pastel color-blocked piping and flattering seaming. It is really difficult to find a cute tennis dress with sleeves, so I was really happy with the way this piece turned out.”

Here, shop the collection before it undoubtedly sells out.