Tennis has always been deeply intertwined with fashion, from its beginnings. Players like Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills had Paris’s best designers create their on-court ensembles. Today, designers are pushing themselves to develop pieces that are as much aesthetically fresh as they are practical.
Tennis and Fashion
Naomi Osaka made an entrance at Wimbledon in an elaborate robe by Tokyo-based designer Hana Yagi, over a white Nike tennis dress. The designer said the one-two look was a marker of the almost sacred ceremony of preparing for competition. Serena Williams also made a stylish comeback, wearing a white top and skirt and matching windbreaker by Nike.
According to Sunita Kumar Nair, author of the newly released “ACE: The Times and Style of Tennis,” tennis players have always enjoyed expressing themselves through fashion. The dynamics of solo play allow their individual imprint to shine, and designers are now thinking as much about the fashion impact of the pieces they develop as their athletic viability.
Original reporting: El Paso News (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
