Khloé Kardashian On Looking Cute at the Gym and Clothes She’s Saving for her Daughter

When it comes to fashion, Khloé Kardashian is something of an amateur archivist. Whether it’s dresses she wore to her family’s famed Christmas Eve parties or her grand Met Gala looks, Kardashian has stored them away, with her daughter, True, in mind. And maybe even a future grandchild. “I save them in a garment bag with the photos on it, and I’ll save it for True or for her daughter,” she says.

Kardashian’s love of fashion transcends her museum-quality preservation. She’s also a burgeoning designer, combining her love of fashion and exercise in a new collaboration with Fabletics, whose second drop is available for purchase September 30. The reality star’s collection with the activewear brand features a desert color scheme of sunset oranges, sage greens, and dusty blues. For her, the collection’s theme is a metaphor for life’s many challenges. “You’re trekking through this 150-degree desert but pushing through, and you don’t know what’s over that next sand dune,” she says. “And then you go over and you see this Oasis and you’re just tranquil and serene, and you made it.” Her second drop, which is jewel-toned, has a high-sheen finish.

The Fabletics collection is full of high-waisted leggings, low backs, and skintight bodysuits—made in the image of what Kardashian herself wants to wear to work out. “If I feel really cute in the gym, it really makes me want to go and work out. So I do think investing in good workout clothes motivates you,” she says. For her, fashion and function are tantamount. Of her leggings, specifically, she says: “They are still gym appropriate, they hold everything, but you could really wear them out with a pair of heels.”

When it comes to her Fabletics collab, don’t ask her if she has a favorite piece—Kardashian loves all her leggings equally. “Whenever people ask me [that], it’s like picking favorite children,” she says. “Which people do have, I’ve learned.”
Although leggings are a constant staple in Kardashian’s wardrobe (these days she’s into weight training and boxing, and wants to pick Pilates back up), she knows that trying out new styles requires confidence. “I try not to follow a lot of trends because I’ve done that when I was younger and I sometimes looked ridiculous because I wasn’t confident. You could wear anything and if you exude confidence, people believe you,” she says.

Some personal regrets that pushed her to swear off trends? “Anything from when the neon-colored jeans were in. And why was I wearing these or fringe sandals? I don’t even like sandals like that. But when the boho style was thriving, I would be like, I want to wear that too, just because everyone was wearing them,” she says. “But I’m not the boho girl, and I think you just have to know some trends are cute, but they’re just not for you.”