For them: full physical effort
Athletes who spend their entire lives training are not famous for their style, you just have to think of the German glamor event “Athlete of the Year”. This also has to do with the financial situation of many female athletes who have chosen disciplines that do not make them rich. It’s different in professional tennis, but when it comes to prize money, interest in fashion comes naturally. Which brings us to Venus Williams, the American tennis legend. She has always been a fashion girl, and now that her career is nearing its end, she even has time to go to a fashion show in Paris. After all the drudgery, you want to experience something! She is one of the few personalities who are invited and equipped by Louis Vuitton to run the first show in front of the Louvre. Most of these Vuitton girls are not only beautiful, but also skinny because the futuristic-looking designs by designer Nicolas Ghesquière – short skirts, sculptural jackets, funny shoes – are best attached to them. Fortunately, the tennis player is not skinny, but well trained, which is why she fills in the chaps-like boots and the sequin dress. But not just because of that. From the outside it’s a totally strange look. Williams fills it out precisely because it is not her main job to wear something like that, in contrast to all the acting and influencing vanity professionals. A sports career also pays off in terms of broadcasting.
For him: Free leg
The man’s skirt, like the man’s handbag, is a zombie of fashion, an eternal revenant who, despite ever new advocates, never quite finds its way into real life, but cannot be killed either. At New York Fashion Week a few weeks ago, basketball star Russell Westbrook launched another rock campaign and was promptly admired and discussed as if it were the first time. This is understandable, of course, because when a matador from a man-made sport steps into a dress, then it’s something else than when filigree fashion professionals like Marc Jacobs or Harry Styles do it. In fact, his extraordinarily smooth combination of skirt and cardigan by men’s rock specialist Thom Browne only showed once more that there can be basically no objections to the item of clothing. Except that it is still unfamiliar to the eye for a millisecond. The fundamental difficulty in finding a really harmonious top is in turn a unisex problem with skirts. But especially for muscular and extra-long runs, they are basically the ideal, because they are the most comfortable cover you can imagine – and Westbrook is a very impressive testimonial. And whether an athlete is now wearing one of these ultra-wide swinging basketball shorts or the beautifully flowing single-lane variant, the viewer really doesn’t care. The difference lies in the reception: shorts belong on the field, the skirt puts the wearer in the front row at the fashion show. With this in mind – let it flow!