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AI garment reconstruction: Serena Williams, Wimbledon 2004. White sleeveless scoop-neck Nike dress with gold/tan side-waist panels, angular white bands, and a low skirt made from broad separated tabs with small perforations near their ends.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Serena Williams · 2004

Gladiator whites

Broad skirt tabs and gold-toned waist details cut a gladiator silhouette.

Athlete
Serena Williams
Tournament
Wimbledon
Date
22 June 2004
Design
Nike
Tournament finish
FSingles

The original look

Serena Williams playing a backhand in her white Nike gladiator-style dress against Jie Zheng at Wimbledon, June 22, 2004.

Clive Brunskill / Getty Images · Editorial reference; public reuse permission has not been obtained.

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The story behind the look

Serena Williams’s 2004 Wimbledon Nike dress gave tennis whites a gladiator-style silhouette. Broad separated skirt tabs, tiny perforations and gold-toned waist details carried the design beyond a conventional pleated tennis dress.

Clive Brunskill photographed the look during her first-round match against Jie Zheng on June 22, 2004. The fitted scoop-neck bodice and slashed skirt are the defining features preserved in this reconstruction.