Clockwise from top: Fictive Designs’ wood and steel chair with tennis-ball “cushions,” by Will Holman; Eugenia Kim’s hemp and silk cloche; Réyes’s merino wool dress; Chanel’s graphite racquet and tennis balls; Kate Spade’s leather and cotton piqué canvas tennis bag.
Trend
March 2008
Fashion has often flirted with sports, and this season designers served up a stylish
tennis vibe of the vintage variety. Think Patou, not performance. “It’s a timeless look,”
says José Ramón Réyes, whose collection delivered beautifully on this Twenties motif.
“It’s that ease in sportswear with a chic Parisian feeling.”
