For Vogue’s Winter issue, top-ranked
#tennis player
#FrancesTiafoe talked the intersection of sports and fashion. “If I’m in the city during Fashion Week, I’m not not going,” declares the player, who, straight after dazzling Open-goers, made a beeline for IB Kamara’s
#OffWhite show. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m battling as hard as I can for every point. But what we do, what we put our bodies through, at the end of the day it’s in the service of entertaining people.” And fashion, Tiafoe believes, is part of the show. There have always been athletes with loads of style, but as cultures the runway and the stadium long kept their distance, with rare exceptions (
#DavidBeckham,
#SerenaWilliams and
#VenusWilliams) proving the rule. Now gymnasts, sprinters, basketball players, footballers, and boxers regularly sit front row during fashion week—if they’re not walking in the shows themselves. What changed? For Vogue’s Winter 2025 issue, Maya Singer speaks to Tiafoe, Olympic sprinter
#GabbyThomas, basketball player
#AngelReese, and others about how sports and fashion fell in love. Tap ‘read more’ for the full story.