If I said Serena Williams to you, you would probably think of the Number 2 ranked female tennis player in the World, not a fashionista who’s true calling is fashion and design; well you’d be half right.
Serena always likes to make a statement with her clothing whether it be on or off the tennis court, from the black lycra Puma catsuit that she wore in the 2002 US Open to the jean skirt and knee high boots that she wore during the warm up of the 2004 US Open. Apparently she was banned from wearing the boots during the actual matches.
Blaming her mother squarely for her love of fashion, Serena caused a stir at the premier for After The Sunset, the movie, when she turned up in a red see through dress, which was later described as “near topless”.
Serena commented that when she was young her mum used to make clothes for her sisters and “me and she used to always make things. I would always see her with these patterns. She’d go on the floor and cut these patterns”. She told us how she was just “fascinated. And then I started sewing.”
Following this new found interest in needle work and clothes making, she attended the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in order top learn more. She is so into clothing that she launched a clothing line in 2003 called Aneres (which is her name spelt backwards); closely followed by her line of accessories called Serena’s Signature Statement.
The star seems fascinated by what other people are wearing, commenting that sometimes “Some people pass by or I’ll know people and I’m like, ‘I’m desperate to give her a makeover or I’m desperate to do this to her hair”. If she could give one tip to women across the world it would be that they need to be more adventurous, and stay away from everything matching all of the time.
Serena tries to avoid black at all costs because she feels that it is just too easy to don a little black number, she prefers to splash lots of colour, and wear scary patterns. “this can go wrong or it can go right” she says.
