Roger Federer and Serena Williams won Wimbledon this weekend, but tennis isn’t the only sport we at Fashionista love. We’re also incredibly obsessed with the Olympics.
It’s summer time, but Vogue UK is already thinking about next winter, and now so are we. Skating and skiing and hockey, oh my!
The opening ceremony is always a huge deal, and we’re pretty psyched to see how Vancouver is planning on following up the incredible show in Beijing. We love comparing each country’s get-up and deciding on our favorite. It was just announced that Ralph Lauren is again designing for the US team, as he did for the 2008 Summer Games.
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Built by Wendy is having a huge sale right now, and this dress really caught our eye.
It’s called the Grid Tennis Dress, and you already know how into the sport we are.
We love this one way more than anything we’ve seen Serena wear on court (sorry, Serena, we still think you’re an awesome athlete!), because it’s a classic look. And when we wear it to frolic in Central Park we can pretend that we’re Maureen Connelly effortlessly working the courts.
There really is something about summer that begs for a perfect white dress, and this smock-like dress is girly, but a different shape than anything we have in our closets.
See you on Centre Court - at least that’s where we’ll be pretending to be.
—AMANDA JEAN BOYLE
Your mom probably wore one when she played tennis. Or the kid that got made fun of during summer camp. And Eminem was pretty into wearing one backwards in 2001.
That’s right, the visor. There are two basic versions: the sporty, and the beachy.
We’ve seen the sporty one cropping up ironically on your basic hipster. Michael Kors had the beachy sort all over his Spring 09 runway. Now we’re even seeing avant-garde versions.
We’re definitely steering clear of the sporty because irony usually fades after a few weeks and then it’s just plain ugly. As for the beach, we thought Lara wore a nice one for Michael Kors, and there’s a version at Neiman Marcus that we’d even consider calling elegant. But these two mostly just look like hats so…why not just wear a hat?
Is there an appeal to the visor that we’re completely missing?
—AMANDA JEAN BOYLE
Lanvin, in order to tap into a younger market, has recruited Rafael Nadal, the 22 year old Spanish tennis star, for their L’Homme Sport fragrance campaign.
Though Nadal’s not the first tennis pro to star in a fragrance ad - think Agassi, Williams sisters, Roddick, and Sharapova - he is the first to do one for a French fashion house, which is nice.
But our first thought?
What will Anna think / do? She’s a notorious Federer supporter, even skipping some of Fashion Week to attend the US Open - we hear she even sets up his haircut appointments for him - and we’re pretty sure Nadal’s existence has been all but ignored by Vogue thus far. Could this mean a new male tennis star favorite for Vogue since the Lanvin fragrance might be impossible to ignore editorially? Or will it just be relegated to Men’s Vogue?
But more pressing: Should Alber make Nadal wear a big bow tie in the ad? Because that would sell.
—ALEXANDRA BEN-GURION