Pants Madness 2022

Olivia Culpo

EXCLUSIVE ALL ROUND - ** IN THE UK: WEB: 50 GBP PP ** ** PRINT AND ALL OTHER TERRITORIES PLEASE CALL FOR PRICING ** Mandatory Credit: Photo by Diggzy/Shutterstock (13606899e) EXCLUSIVE - Olivia Culpo was spotted on her way to an interview with her sisters, as they prepare for the release of their Reality Show, The Culpo Sisters. Olivia took a walk on the wild side, wearing the latest fashion craze, a pair of Coperni Knee High Denim Pants. The hybrid bottoms retail for over $1100, which she paired with a simple white t-shirt and black leggings. EXCLUSIVE - Olivia Culpo Models Coperni's Denim Hybrid Flared Knee High Pants as She Meets Up with Her Sisters to Film Interview, Los Angeles, California, USA - 02 Nov 2022

We had to start with this one. OBVIOUSLY we would start with this one. These are $1120, and as we noted at the time in a post where you can see more angles, are sold out. Which I take to mean "they make them to order and no one is ordering." I HOPE.

Nastia Liukin

As pants madness go, the one-legged trend is right up there in the most treacherous territory.

Kylie Cantrall

But perhaps not more treacherous than the DOUBLE CROTCH.

Dominique Fishback

Vented khakis were also an unpleasant surprise. (Don't take it personally, please, Dominique. YOU historically often look delightful.)

Dami Lovato

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gregory Pace/Shutterstock (13659739n) Demi Lovato Z100's Jingle Ball, Arrivals, New York, USA - 09 Dec 2022

Demi is never not reinventing pants.

Maria Bakalova

I don't need thigh balloon pants in my life. I am not an aviator or a paratrooper or any other thing that may in the past have involved roominess in this manner.

Heidi Klum

And I continue to reject the notion that bike shorts are chic for anything other than biking. Come on now.

Jamie Chung

Jamie is but one example of the pants we got that have groin cutouts. We also got some designed to make it look like your thong is poking out ,but for whatever reason I couldn't find any -- they're probably buried in a slideshow somewhere. AND THERE THEY CAN STAY.

Marion Cotillard

Marion here really went for it with very high-legged, VERY high-waisted Chanel pants and a chain around them, perhaps to try and make them seem less blocky and excessive. Didn't work.

J.Lo and Ben

PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 25: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck arrive at their Hotel on July 25, 2022 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pierre Suu/GC Images)

Meanwhile, J.Lo married her early aughts fiance and dug out early aughts jeans. Possibly the same pair.

Camila Cabello

That is, in fact, the face I made when I saw... all of this. I don't understand the top, but I REALLY need help with why her pants have a regular crotch and then a button-fly version over on her thigh. Surely bicrotchual pants are not necessary?

Ella Balinska

I wanted to shoehorn in straight-up DENIM MADNESS, which is truly one of the worst things to happen to that material in 2022 outside of whatever Julia Fox did.

Chloe Sevigny

And yes of course we had what appear to be lace pants. WHY NOT.

A$AP Rocky and RiRi

Ignore RiRi for a second -- we'll see her later -- and just drink in that A$AP Rocky's pants appear to have their own train/skirt attachment.

Rihanna

These, I think, are not pants. It seems to be a teeeeeeny skirt and GINORMOUS boots that are MADE of the legs of very very large pants. There is definitely madness afoot, literally involving her feet, but the nature of it is up for debate I guess.

Maya Hawke

This is a transitional photo, because while I think the pants themselves are wacky on her, it's the jacket for me. The puffed sleeves. THE PUFFED SLEEVES. They are the perfect transition to... drum roll...

Ansel Elgort, Lewis Hamilton

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 05: Ansel Elgort and Lewis Hamilton are seen in Tribeca on February 05, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images)

Congratulations to Ansel Elgort for the STUPIDEST COAT ALIVE, made somehow worse by the hoodie and by the fact that Lewis looks so expensively chic. I know we saw plenty of bad outfits, but I might wear Nastia's half-pants or Dom's vented pants or J/Lo's ultra lows, Marion's giant ones, the train pants, even the bootaloons, before I put on this jacket. THIS JACKET. WHAT IS THIS JACKET. MADNESSSSSSS.