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AI garment reconstruction: Ana Ivanovic, Roland-Garros 2016. Black-and-white zebra-patterned adidas Y-3 dress with a fitted sleeveless bodice, flared skirt, black rear panel and vivid red shoulder-to-back straps.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Ana Ivanovic · 2016

The zebra straps

Dazzle stripes and red suspender-like straps disrupted the tennis uniform.

Tournament
Roland-Garros
Date
May 2016
Design
adidas x Yohji Yamamoto

The story behind the look

For Roland-Garros in 2016, Ana Ivanovic wore adidas Y-3, the collaboration with Yohji Yamamoto. The dress combined black-and-white dazzle stripes with red straps that read like suspenders. The graphic pattern changes direction across the garment, breaking up its otherwise familiar fitted-bodice and flared-skirt outline.

The back is a separate composition: a dark central panel is framed by those red lines, while the striped skirt continues below it. Contemporary front and rear photographs guide the reconstruction. They distinguish the dress from other zebra-print pieces in the same tournament collection.