Serena Williams made a statement in her first match at the 2019 French Open. Nearly a year after the tournament banned her from wearing bodysuits [1] as part of its stricter dress code, the tennis player returned wearing an empowering outfit by Nike and Virgil Abloh's Off-White [2] featuring the words mother, champion, queen, and goddess in French.
The black-and-white outfit consisted of a miniskirt, crop top with a mesh bodysuit underneath, and a zip-up jacket that fittingly resembled a cape. Once the match got underway, Serena took off the jacket and later changed into a more formfitting one, also by Nike. Serena has always been one to push fashion boundaries both on and off the court [3], and she clearly isn't letting seemingly arbitrary dress codes [4] get in her way. (Oh, and by the way, she won the match.)
