The Japanese American athlete’s approach to style has proven equally impressive as her turn on the tennis court.
– evolved from the sisters’ shared love of cartoons, consisting of a stylised pair of animal eyes. “Why wouldn’t you want a little animal on your thing so people can really understand how cute you truly are inside?” Naomi asks. On this, Mari agrees. “I’m not sure why it’s now becoming a political thing towear the mask – we should all be wearing them, and so it might as well be fashionable and cute.
It isn’t just the causes being supported that speak to the Osaka sisters’ close ties to their mother’s homeland , but also the fashion they find most inspiring. “I remember when I was little when we would play tournaments in Tokyo, and every time we would go to Harajuku or Ginza or Shibuya. It was so cool to walk around and see everyone in so many different outfits that you wouldn’t necessarily see in America,” says Naomi, who cites Rei Kawakubo as a figure she admires.
“For example, there’s a player I know, and I’m not sure if she lost sponsors or not, but she shaved half her head, and there was certainly outrage,” Mari continues. “If you get a bad tattoo or something, you’re pretty much done sometimes. I think it’s a mixture of outdated ideas plus who’s actually wearing it, because there’s a difference between Serena Williams wearing something crazy and Maria Sharapova wearing something crazy.
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