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AI garment reconstruction: Maria Kirilenko, US Open 2007. Narrow lace-edged camisole straps, shallow V neckline with scalloped trim, curved underbust seam, long close-fitted chocolate-brown torso, low dropped seam and short gathered flounce.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Maria Kirilenko · 2007

Chocolate and lace

Chocolate lace brought a lingerie vocabulary to the hard courts of New York.

Tournament
US Open
Date
28 August 2007
Design
adidas by Stella McCartney

The story behind the look

Maria Kirilenko wore this chocolate-brown adidas by Stella McCartney dress in the first round of the 2007 US Open. On 28 August, she defeated Martina Müller 6–3, 6–1. Contemporary coverage identified the colour as Dark Bronco and placed the dress in McCartney’s autumn/winter 2007 collection.

Lace at the shoulder straps and neckline supplied the defining detail. The restrained brown palette and lingerie-like trim offered a different reading of tennis clothing from the bright performance colours that would later characterise the collaboration. The reconstruction follows the photographed silhouette; details hidden from the camera are interpreted conservatively.