While waiting for the Met gala on May 6th of which Jonathan Anderson is honorary co-chair and Loewe one of the sponsors, Challengers inspires the world of fashion: Luca Guadagnino’s new film about a scorching triangle between tennis champions calls fashionistas to gather thanks to the ‘outfits’ of the protagonists, including those worn by Zendaya on the catwalk on the red carpets including the pumps whose heel ends with a ball worn in Rome on 8 April. The tennis style is all the rage. At the center of everything is the t-shirt with the writing “I Told Ya“, I told you. Zendaya (the beautiful Tashi Duncan forced to give up playing after an ACL injury) steals it from Josh O’Connor (Patrick Zweig, unreliable and talented like Novak Djokovic), but he takes it back and doesn’t he misses wearing it every time the two meet: a subtle message of a past intimacy and vibrations that have never died down.
ANSA Agency Sinner Effect, the great return of tennis as a symbol of quite luxury – Luxury – Ansa.it Lifestyle, fashion, resort, the game equalizes aristocratic golf and beats padel (ANSA)Anderson cloned it from a gym shirt worn by John F. Kennedy Jr. in the 1990s in a double homage to the All American aesthetic and the Old Money nonchalance of which Jackie and JFK’s son with his wife Carolyn Bessette ( other fashion muse 2024) were natural testimonials: Lowe is selling a limited version for $330, immediately imitated without authorization for a tenth of the price. Simplicity but also quiet luxury (and here again are the references to Jfk Jr and Bessette), tennis still remains a sport that evokes wealth while fans browse the sites in search of items similar to those worn by the three protagonists of the triangle amorous: the tartan shorts in which O’Connor appears in the first sequences of the film, the Miduno tennis shoes that her character wears in many scenes and of which some examples can still be found when hunting on e-commerce sites, the little dress Zendaya’s Juicy Couture 2006 when she shows up for the first time in the hotel room of the two at the Junior Open, Mike Faist’s ‘all white’ (Art Donaldson, the third element of the triangle, handsome and reliable so much so that she marries him) inspired by those of the Japanese fashion giant Uniqlo. Anderson, in his debut as a Hollywood costume designer and who is working with Guadagnino for Queer, the Italian’s new film with Daniel Craig based on a novel by William Burroughs, has built every element of the stars’ wardrobe by mixing unique pieces and clothes available in shops.
It is not the first time in fashion trends that tennis has made its influence felt, see the success of brands such as Lacoste, Fred Perry and Stan Smith. It’s not just today that tennis and fashion go hand in hand: clay champions are courted by brands like Tiffany (Emma Raducanu), Louis Vuitton (Carlos Alcaraz) and Gucci (Jannik Sinner). Challengers has given the trend an injection of steroids. The classic triangle in which everyone, from time to time, loves the other and then hates him has pushed up searches for pleated skirts and polo shirts, which rose on the second-hand sales site Depop in 1952 and 1953. hundred.
The blessing could come from the Met gala of which the boy prodigy of UK fashion who has been designing Loewe since 2013 is co-chair, while the Spanish luxury brand is co-sponsor with TikTok. Zendaya is one of the godmothers together with Anna Wintour, who is also an avid tennis fan.
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