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AI garment reconstruction: Serena Williams, Australian Open 2003. Serena Williams’s orange-and-white Puma tennis dress with an asymmetric rhinestone-trimmed strap and a narrow orange hip tie.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Serena Williams · 2003

The rhinestone strap

An orange sweep, a hip tie and one glittering shoulder strap.

The story behind the look

Serena’s 2003 Melbourne look combined orange-and-white colour blocking with a single rhinestone-covered shoulder strap. Its contrasting trim and slender hip tie gave the performance garment an unusually decorative finish.

She won her first Australian Open title that year. The reconstruction records the white-skirted version in the photograph; the unphotographed rear is inferred.