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AI garment reconstruction: Serena Williams, Roland-Garros 2019. Serena Williams’s black and white printed Nike and Off-White competition top and skirt

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Serena Williams · 2019

Mother. Champion. Queen.

A graphic two-piece, with a message that extended well beyond the baseline.

Tournament
Roland-Garros
Date
27 May 2019
Design
Nike × Virgil Abloh
Documented round
First roundSingles
Match result
Wonvs Vitalia Diatchenko
Tournament finish
3RSingles

The story behind the look

Williams returned to Roland-Garros in a black-and-white performance two-piece designed with Virgil Abloh for Nike. A matching cape carried French words describing her as a mother, champion, queen and goddess.

Following the debate around her 2018 catsuit, this collaboration foregrounded Williams’s own account of who she was. She described the words as positive reinforcement. The garment reconstruction shows the competition separates, without the entrance cape.