All through the whole Challengers press tour to date, Zendaya and stylist Legislation Roach have been on a severe tennis kick—embracing sporty seems as a technique to nod again to the movie. Did you catch her Loewe tennis ball heels? Or her striped Vivienne Westwood vest and mini skirt? Each smash hits! For her newest look, nevertheless, Zendaya switched issues up with an sudden ballgown second. Designed by Carolina Herrera, her striped, full-skirted formal design—which debuted on Instagram simply moments in the past—is definitely a recreation of clothes first worn in a ’90s difficulty of Vogue by two iconic tennis professionals.
Initially seen within the Could 1998 difficulty of Vogue, sisters Venus and Serena Williams have been the primary to put on Zendaya’s black and white striped Carolina Herrera ballgown in an editorial photographed by Annie Leibovitz. “[The original image] stays one among my favourite photos to this present day,” Gordon tells Vogue. On the time, the duo was shortly rising within the ranks of the tennis world. Greater than twenty years later, Herrera designer Wes Gordon and stylist Roach teamed as much as revive the traditional, elegant robe for Zendaya. The dramatic silhouette stays a lot of the identical, and in step with the reference, Zendaya wears her shoulder-length hair in white beads.
The fashionable finish consequence made for a poignant nod to 2 of the tennis world’s most well-known figures—and was an apropos selection for the star’s Challengers tour. Whereas a few of Zendaya’s different press tour seems have been extra on-the-nose by way of their tennis inspirations, this considerate method is maybe her best possible but. With a costume that good, it was solely a matter of time earlier than it made a comeback.
