Naomi Osaka has fun with fashion at the French Open. She'll have to win again to keep playing dress-up

“Dress shabbily and they retrieve the dress; formal impeccably and they retrieve the woman.” ― Coco Chanel

Apropos of Paris. Apropos of the French Open.

That’s each the discourse indispensable to admit Naomi Osaka removing a ceremonial achromatic skirt and sleeveless beaded bodice up of her opening lucifer astatine the Roland-Garros Complex this week, revealing a sequined golden playing dress.

Osaka was playing each right. With sensibilities. With tradition. With her opponents, who she summarily dispatched with victories successful the archetypal and 2nd rounds.

Naomi Osaka arrives connected Court Suzanne-Lenglen to play her singles lucifer against Laura Siegemund.

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And it was wide the four-time Grand Slam champion was playing with each of america erstwhile she said of her dress, “It’s precise couture. You cognize the Eiffel Tower astatine nighttime erstwhile it’s sparkly? I benignant of deliberation I look similar that a small bit.”

Countless LinkedIn pages spout thing astir residing astatine the intersection of athletics and fashion. Osaka locates that intersection astatine tennis tournaments worldwide, looks some ways and boldly steps into the street.

Last twelvemonth astatine the U.S. Open she adorned her ponytail with reddish roses and attached a Labubu to her tennis container that she named Billie Jean Bling.

At the Australian Open successful January, she entered the tribunal successful a tie-dye turquoise and greenish palette with flowing tendrils. Her look was concealed by a veil, a wide-brim chapeau and a achromatic parasol that she said was inspired by an representation of a jellyfish that excited her 2-year-old daughter.

Naomi Osaka walking onto the tribunal successful a jellyfish-inspired ensemble up of her first-round lucifer astatine the 2026 Australian Open successful Melbourne.

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It’s each large fun. Yet continued manner statements beryllium connected her show connected the court. Osaka wins, she earns different expansive entrance. She loses, cipher cares what she wears connected the thrust home.

At the U.S. Open, Osaka shined, reaching the women’s singles semifinals. Seeded arsenic an also-ran astatine No. 23, she upset Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova earlier falling successful a choky three-set lucifer to Amanda Anisimova.

Seeded No. 16 successful Australia, she won 2 matches earlier withdrawing due to the fact that of an abdominal wounded suffered during her three-set triumph against Sorana Cîrstea.

Fast guardant to the French Open. Osaka precocious to the 3rd circular for the archetypal clip successful 7 years Thursday with a 7-6 (7/1), 6-4 triumph against Croatia’s Donna Vekic and volition instrumentality connected teen Iva Jovic connected Saturday.

What she volition deterioration walking successful is anybody’s guess. An effortless chic aesthetic courses done Paris. Advancing to the French Open circular of 16 for the archetypal clip would necessitate the opposite, Osaka toiling done different measurement successful her instrumentality to signifier aft giving commencement to her daughter.

And creating different accidental to person amusive with fashion.