With the return of New York Style 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 exhibiting out within the tunnel, Harrison and Austin are persevering with a motion of ladies’s hoopers within the high-fashion house. 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 middle/ahead for the Mystics and ’22 All-Rookie Crew honoree, seemed gorgeous in items by Kim Shui, DAILY PAPER and extra.
To provide us the within scoop, Bordonaro joined the most recent episode of hoop(ish) to speak about their current WNBA NYFW takeover.
Bordonaro was answerable for working across the outfits given by the exhibits with flashy equipment that finest complemented their appears and character. 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 women 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 degree with extra edgier appears. Harrison’s outfit included a Jumpman unique with a beaded-corset overlay, whereas Austin rocked designs by KidSuper. They each additionally wore extra appears 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 introduction for the style house to get basketball ladies,” Bordonaor mentioned. “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 appears by Bordonaro this upcoming season and to observe Harrison and Austin present out on, and off the courtroom.
Take a look at the complete episode of hoop(ish) beneath:
Photographs by Dominique Oliveto (@dommyo).
