Kaia Gerber Skips 2025 Sneaker Trends for Her Eternal Adidas Sambas

She can't quit wearing her favorite outfit formula.

Kaia Gerber walking in Los Angeles in a jean jacket and studded tote
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Kaia Gerber doesn't need buzzy 2025 sneaker trends to be happy—just her favorite Adidas Sambas, her go-to tote bag, and at least one piece of merchandise repping her Library Science book club will do. On Feb. 16, the model stepped out to run errands in Los Angeles wearing all of her most important pieces.

The 23-year-old's Sunday morning ensemble starts with a cropped dark wash denim jacket—a wardrobe staple she's been wearing constantly over the last month or so. (Memorably, she also wore what appears to be the very same jean jacket to her rumored new beau Lewis Pullman's birthday dinner.) Underneath her classic outerwear, she layered a navy blue Library Science T-shirt and black pull-on pants. Knowing Gerber, the loose trousers most likely come from elevated basics brand La Ligne. The Bottoms actor happens to own the same style in cherry red, too.

A photo of Kaia Gerber pairing black pants with a navy t-shirt, denim jacket, blue baseball cap, and black Adidas Samba sneakers.

Kaia Gerber pairs black pants with a navy T-shirt, denim jacket, blue baseball cap, and black Adidas Samba sneakers.

(Image credit: The Image Direct)

In keeping with her signature winter outfit formula, the star accessorized her casual look with Paloma Wool's grommet-studded brown leather tote bag, a light blue Adidas dad hat, and a trendy sneaker in lieu of her usual ballet flats. In this case, she went with a black pair of Adidas Sambas—the striped street style staple that simply will not die, even as new contenders like the Adidas Superstar and Puma Speedcat try their best to catch up. (And, as the runways fill with more adventurous styles like Mary Jane sneakers and super-slender ballerina pairs.)

As a final flourish, Gerber traded her standard bubble bath pink nails for a chipped black manicure. Normally, I get the sense that she's a soft gel supremacist. So I have to wonder whether the model might have come across Tariro Makoni's galaxy brain newsletter about regular polish as a status symbol over the weekend? Needless to say, I'll be monitoring the situation closely.

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Hanna Lustig
Staff Writer

Hanna Lustig is a staff writer at Marie Claire, where she gets to gab every day about the topics she holds most dear: fashion, beauty, and celebrity. Hanna’s editorial journey began with formative internships at Elle and InStyle, where she was lucky enough to work for some of the smartest women in media while she was still in college at the University of Tennessee. Hanna then accepted a digital culture reporting fellowship at Insider, where she helped carve out a new beat dedicated to covering influencers. Those experiences later served her well as a staff writer at Glamour, where she developed a knack for spinning quick turnaround celebrity news and trend reporting into juicy feature stories. Some of her greatest hits include an earnest ode to the no-pants trend, this meticulously reported feature exploring the rise of endoscopic facelifts, this snappy take on the Chanel-designed fantasy of Sofia Richie’s wedding, this tribute to WAGs past and present, and this timeline of Katie Holmes’s life and career as told through her denim collection.

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