Serena Williams' iconic 'Catsuit' revolutionized on-court style in tennis | After the Arena

okay Taylor it's time to have some fun it is time for the style Spotlight presented by TJ Max and our first look is going to be the iconic 2002 cats suit at the US Open that she wore against Venus talk to me about the look girl okay so you guys want to know something I actually wore cats suits in 20 all of 2022 and part of 2023 because of Serena because of this look I texted her and I said I am terrified to wear this but I'm going to do it and I wore it at the US Open was the first time that I wore them and she was like girl I'm terrified every time that I go out when I'm about to wear something just do it just put it on and I said I'm doing this because of you like I felt like it was such a opportunity to like pay homage to her because she debuted the cats suit at the US Open and I was like you know what I'm bouncing back just had a kid I'm going to debut this and basically show like I'm more confident than ever so it was more of a statement piece for me but she was like do it do it do it and I was like okay if you're telling me to do it I'm going to do it so it was super iconic for me I remember it like no tomorrow I remember that and I was like this is so fire the body was bodying she looked amazing and you know it was just everything that we didn't know that we needed but fantastic on her Puma it was it was everything okay the last one I want to ask you about is of course the the 2022 US Open where she came out with the trail the I don't even know what to call it it was sort of a tutu it had the Stars representing the night sky Olympia was there with the braids as well I mean I was at this match I covered this match and I remember seeing her with my eyeballs and just thinking wow what a look what did you think of that one well it's funny because in 22 then she told me I'm nervous about what I'm wearing and so she then when I saw it I was like oh okay she was like I got crystals falling all over the place like I was like girl we were in the locker room she had crystals in her in her ponytail like fixing her ponytail had crystals in the ponytail like amazing but you know it was very Queen likee you know very Royal but I think it was the perfect representation of of who she is and she's actually very very girly so the tutu kind of it was and she has dance background as well so I felt like the tutu is kind of like you know a tribute to that but I thought it was beautiful I thought it was amazing and just I thought it was fantastic but we can't also forget about the denim the denim jean the denim jean skirt with a zip up black jacket and the zipup boots we can't we can't forget about that one that was another one I was like oh my gosh we don't know we need it but we need that those are in the lobby at the Serena building are they on Nike's campus yes they represent that particular outfit I remember seeing it I thought wow

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