Serena Williams proved she can do it all on Tuesday.
The
32-year-old showed she's not only a top athlete but a budding fixture
in the fashion world as she walked the runway to launch her Spring
fashion line at New York Fashion Week.
The
catwalk excursion comes just days after she won her sixth US Open over
Caroline Wozniacki, who also attended the fashion show.
She can do it all: Serena Williams walked the runway for her show at NYFW in New York on Tuesday
The tennis champion bared her toned mid-riff in a leather crop top and matching skit as she stood tall in heels.
Serena
clasped her hands together as she strode down the runway. But earlier
in the day she made sure to spend quality time with her guests.
In attendance was tennis fan and US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her colleague and dear friend Wozniacki.
Winner: The 32-year-old posed with Vogue editor Anna Wintour and U.S. Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki
The conqueror: Serena looked relaxed before showing her Spring 2015 collection during Fashion Week
Wozniacki wore a red dress as her blonde mane cascaded in flowing waves over her shoulders for the big fashion night.
Serena
previously told Dior that her Spring collection was meant to be 'easy
fitting, yet bold, edgy and contemporary silhouettes'.
Serena beat Wozniacki 6-3, 6-3. She now has 18 Grand Slam
titles, putting her level with Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.
Before
heading straight to the fashion studios yesterday she visited a
sponsoring bank to discuss her latest US Open triumph.
Toned: The tennis champ showed off her washboard abs in the leather top and skirt
Animal print: The athlete wore a leopard print jacket before stripping it off to walk the runway
‘Every year I feel more fit. I just feel better, it’s the strangest thing. Thirty is the new 15,’ she said, laughing.
Even
for an exceptional — and sometimes unfathomable — athlete such as
Williams it is going to be quite a task at her age to pass the next
landmark in sight, which is Steffi Graf’s total of 22 Grand Slams.
Eighteen
is already a towering achievement, and we will never know how much
Graf’s tally may have been inflated by the grotesque piece of fortune
that saw her biggest threat reduced after Monica Seles was stabbed in
1993.
After
winning on Sunday night, Williams’s coach Patrick Mouratoglou praised
the ‘humility’ she had shown in going back to basics and working hard
following the debacle at Wimbledon, which may have been contributed to
by the on-off nature of her personal relationship with the Frenchman.
‘I feel like I’ve always had a humble spirit, I don’t have an ego,’ she responded.
Animal attraction: Serena previously told Dior
that her Spring collection was meant to be 'easy fitting, yet bold, edgy
and contemporary silhouettes'
Leaping for joy: Serena held up her trophy after winning he sixth US Open
‘I
had to really find a way of winning matches and tournaments again, to
beat players that weren’t the top-ranked players but playing really hard
against me.
People were coming so hard at me, so I had to figure out a way to be better.’
From
the depths of the Wimbledon episode, when she retired from the doubles
looking totally dazed, she has risen again, but insisted she could not
remember what she was feeling two months ago.
‘I’m
not quite sure if I was even able to think,’ she said. ‘I didn’t leave
the bed. I didn’t even leave the country until after the finals, which
never happens (when beaten early). If anything it was just trying to get
healthy.’
Of
her place in the sport’s pantheon of greats she is unsure: ‘People are
always so quick to say legend — “Now that you’re a legend” — and I’m
saying, “Hold on, take it one day at a time”.
