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AI garment reconstruction: Venus Williams, Australian Open 2010. Venus Williams’s yellow EleVen mini dress with a plunging V neckline, high skirt slits and coordinating skin-tone fabric underlayers at the 2010 Australian Open.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Venus Williams · 2010

The slit illusion

A deep V and dramatic front slits, sketched by Venus herself.

The story behind the look

Williams designed the yellow dress herself, placing a plunging V above two high slits in the skirt. Underneath, skin-tone fabric created the illusion of more exposed skin while providing coverage.

She explained that the slits were central to the visual effect. The reconstruction keeps the underlayers as textile, not a visible body, and records the outfit as worn in Melbourne.