With the return of New York Trend Week, the arrival of WNBA stars Isabelle Harrison and Shakira Austin onto the scene has caught the eye of the style world.
Whereas W gamers have lengthy been displaying out within the tunnel, Harrison and Austin are persevering with a motion of girls’s hoopers within the high-fashion area. Due to the visionary work of famend stylist Sydney Bordonaro—who credit the weekend’s success to the assistance of author and strategist Kirsten Chen (@hotgothwriter)—Harrison, a dynamic ahead on the Sky and Austin, a standout heart/ahead for the Mystics and ’22 All-Rookie Workforce honoree, appeared gorgeous in items by Kim Shui, DAILY PAPER and extra.
To provide us the within scoop, Bordonaro joined the newest episode of hoop(ish) to speak about their current WNBA NYFW takeover.
Bordonaro was in control of working across the outfits given by the reveals with flashy equipment that greatest complemented their seems to be and persona. She says Harrison’s sister, @dolledbydorie, additionally labored her magic with each gamers’ make-up, too.
It was Harrison’s second present since her look for Kim Shui two years in the past and a primary for Austin. “Izzy and Shakira ate,” Bordonaro says. “The ladies simply did what they wanted to do.”
On Friday and Saturday, Harrison and Austin each rocked elegant, flowy designs by Collina Strada whereas accessorizing with purses.
Then, on Saturday, they took issues to a different stage with extra edgier seems to be. Harrison’s outfit included a Jumpman authentic with a beaded-corset overlay, whereas Austin rocked designs by KidSuper. They each additionally wore extra seems to be by DAILY PAPER.
After an eventful weekend, Bordonaro hopes this was a much-needed get up name for the style world to incorporate much more girls’s hoopers. “It was a very good introduction for the style area to get basketball ladies,” Bordonaor stated. “They dealt with themselves like they had been stars. So many individuals once they noticed them had been taken again.”
That is only the start, too. From the tunnel to the runway, we’re hyped to see extra seems to be by Bordonaro this upcoming season and to observe Harrison and Austin present out on, and off the court docket.
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Photographs by Dominique Oliveto (@dommyo).