If You're More Prada Than Pilates, This Is How to Wear Leggings in 2026

Shop the elegant outfit combination Diane Kruger just wore in NYC.

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Diane Kruger wearing a brown Prada polo shirt, black coat, black leggings, and black leather knee-high boots in NYC.
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This year has brought us many aesthetic trends, one of which (that's on the more casual end of the spectrum) is the Pilates lover with their leggings, Ugg slides, oversize The Row tote, and trendy reusable water bottle of the moment. While I do attend multiple Pilates classes per week, I like to think of myself as more of a Prada girl in my day-to-day life and choose not to wear leggings outside of commuting to and from my reformer classes. Fellow Prada girl Diane Kruger just made me want to rethink that.

Kruger has been busy in NYC promoting her two new series, Little Disasters and The Seduction. For an appearance on Today this week, she wore the most elevated legging outfit of the season, if you ask me. The main character of the outfit was undoubtedly her oversize chocolate-brown Prada polo shirt, which provided the perfect contrast to her sleek black leggings. She topped the outfit off with a long black coat and accessorized with a Jil Sander top-handle bag and pointed-toe Coperni knee-high boots, both in black leather. I'm not sure that a chicer legging outfit combination exists. Trust me—you're going to see plenty of similar dressed-up legging outfits on the streets of NYC and beyond as we head into 2026 and still have approximately three long months left of cold weather.

If you love the Prada look and want to apply it to your own legging outfits, keep scrolling to shop the pieces you need to re-create Kruger's look along with some of the sleekest black leggings on the market.

The Full Outfit

Diane Kruger wearing a brown Prada polo shirt, black coat, black leggings, and black leather knee-high boots in NYC.

(Image credit: Backgrid)

On Diane Kruger: Prada Lisle Cotton Polo Shirt ($1850); Jil Sander Black Goji Pillow Small Bag ($1615); Coperni Logo Leather Knee-High Boots ($770)

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Allyson Payer
Allyson Payer
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Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.