Chloe Kim Wears Preppy Thom Browne in NYC During Olympic Press Tour

Chloe Kim, fresh off a silver medal in the Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe at Milan Cortina 2026 and a three-time Olympian with three Olympic medals, walked Midtown in a head-to-toe preppy Thom Browne look on Feb. 23, 2026 as a historic Northeast blizzard battered New York City. Photographers from TheStewartofNY/GC Images captured the contrast: a miniskirt and long varsity socks against blowing snow, images later documented in a WWD exclusive published Feb. 24, 2026.

The Thom Browne outfit read like runway shorthand pulled into street survival gear. Kim wore a white miniskirt detailed with triangular strips of navy blue, red, and white striped material fabricated to appear like pleats, paired with a light-blue collared blouse, a beige fitted cropped blazer, and a red-and-white diagonal striped tie. Accessories tightened the school-uniform reference: long white ribbed varsity socks, white pumps, and a mini brown-and-white purse with a brogue-like design. Footwear News summed it up visually, noting she "wore the brand's wingtip-inspired pump in the streets of New York City."

Kim doubled back to the cameras that same day in a Ferragamo look that outlets described with slightly different takes. Yahoo, Harper’s Bazaar, and a Today appearance writeup by Bailey Colon call it a bright-orange patent leather midi skirt styled with a brown collared jacket and black leather clutch, while WWD and Red Carpet Fashion Awards label the same piece a patent leather orange pencil skirt paired with a brown nubuck collared jacket. Kim posted the daytime Ferragamo images to Instagram and tagged Ferragamo, with fellow athletes chiming in; Lindsey Vonn wrote "Snow queen 👑🔥" and Suni Lee commented "perf."

Red Carpet Fashion Awards cataloged a third outfit when Kim appeared on Live with Kelly & Mark, crediting Carolina Herrera Spring 2026. That look featured a button-front jacket worn with most buttons undone, capri-length trousers, white pumps, and KATKIM jewels. Red Carpet praised the shift to cleaner lines, saying "Compared to the previous two looks, [the Carolina Herrera look] feels more streamlined, and far less chaotic than what came before."

Not everyone was sold on the Thom Browne styling. Red Carpet was blunt: "Sadly, only the socks and shoes are salvageable here. Everything else looks thrown together, and not in a convincing way." The outlet added that the cropped jacket "reads a size too small, and the rest lacks cohesion." Those critiques landed alongside the social-media praise, highlighting how Kim’s press-tour wardrobe split opinion even among fellow Olympians.

Photographs dated Feb. 23, 2026 and credited to TheStewartofNY/GC Images circulated across WWD, Footwear News, Yahoo, Harper’s Bazaar, Red Carpet Fashion Awards, and Lifestyle Si, documenting multiple distinct street looks during the press run. The takeaway is clear: Chloe Kim is leaning into high-fashion codes on her post-Milan Cortina press swing, pairing runway statements with on-the-ground practicality as she closes out media obligations and heads back to training.