Faya Nilsson

Amidst the snowy deluge of a brutally frosted British December, Summer is but a moribund memory, seemingly belonging to a different planet (or Sydney in the case of my shots here! ). Bikinis and/or trunks are consigned to a forgotten section of the wardrobe and instead, it’s acceptable to hide under countless layers of knitted misc. Furthermore, you’re establishing a fitness routine now rather than leaving it to January, when going cold turkey will feel like a tragic uphill struggle. By the time the equally commercialized ‘new year new you’ fallacy comes around, you’ll already have a strong, regular thing going on; new year, same you!

Queen B, aka Beyoncé, has put pen to paper with Sir Philip Green’s retail powerhouse to design an extremely intelligent line of flattering and affordable performance wear, and I absolutely LOVE the result! Ivy Park is an expansive (but not expensive) 220-piece collection of workout staples that takes its name from a combination of Beyoncé’s daughter’s middle name, and Parkwood Park in which she used to seek personal strength. Make no mistake, fashionable activewear is a 100% bonafide source from which to draw inspiration; if you feel excited to workout because of your new look, then that’s one more session than you’d have otherwise done, and it’s no less valid than the more traditional sources of fitspo! Given that nearly 70m of us follow Beyoncé on Instagram, 65m more on Facebook, and 14m on Twitter, there’s a vast audience of people ready to draw their own inspiration from this collection, which makes me happy, as a healthy lifestyle change