Style’s love affair with sports activities is in full bloom. NBA stars arrive to arenas in seems to be seemingly pulled straight from the runway (although they’re typically customized, given how tall basketball gamers are) and lately, the NFL has grow to be a bastion of fashion, with Birkins and Louis Vuitton duffles quickly changing gamers’ conventional fitness center baggage. Final summer time, Vogue World made its option to Paris for a mesmerizing celebration of style and sport, simply weeks earlier than the Metropolis of Mild performed host to probably the most fashionable Olympics ever—the LVMH-sponsored 2024 Video games.
As Vogue celebrates the ever-popular intersection of style and sports activities with a sequence of digital covers, we’re revisiting a few of our favourite shoots and interviews with athletes all through the years. From the primary time Venus and Serena Williams graced the pages of the journal (as teenagers in Carolina Herrera circa 1998) to that afternoon Hamish Bowles hooped with Amar’e Stoudemire, have a look again on a historical past of athletes in Vogue.
