In Custom Loewe, Zendaya Holds Court Once Again
With her latest red carpet appearance, Zendaya shows no signs of stopping the thematic press tour dressing. At the Sydney premiere of her next movie, Challengers, the 27-year-old actor leant into its plot line by choosing a dress that took on the tennis mood with ace-effect.
It mirrors not only the well publicised approach that Margot Robbie and her stylist Andrew Mukamal took for her Barbie promo tour, but also Zendaya and her stylist Law Roach's very own optioning for Dune: Part Two promo just last month. But where that was all dystopian and sci-fi leaning — thanks to vintage robotic vintage Mugler or conceptual Alaïa — this latest take courts a sportier mood instead.
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It makes sense. The movie follows the fictional Tashi Duncan, played by Zendaya, as she moves from Grand Slam champion to coach, setting up a match between her husband (Mike Faist) and former lover (Josh O'Connor). But that's not all. The costumes have been dreamt up by Jonathan Anderson, the favoured Northern Irish fashion designer and long-time creative director of Loewe, who was also responsible for Zendaya's latest red-carpet gown.
Looking to the Spanish house's often abstract design signature, Anderson opted to take on the classic tennis player silhouette and set it across a Wimbledon grass green gown that came complete with a plunging neckline and a dramatic side split. Zendaya and Roach then married her look's details together by wearing a matching shoe and underlining her eye with the same green hue liner. On the red carpet, Faist and O'Connor were also dressed in Loewe, bookending Zendaya in louche tailoring, with O'Connor's purple trainers making a subtle nod to tennis style.
Zendaya's gown marks the third look in a recent run of tennis-leaning looks that hint a roll call is to follow when the premiere promo leaves Australia and heads across the globe. What to expect? We're thinking it's going to be time to call 'love' on pleated skirts, polo shirts and, if there's more to come from Anderson creating, a more abstract look to obvious tennis tropes. Game. Set. Match.
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