September 18, 2025 • 45 mins
Celebrity stylist and wardrobe consultant Amadi Brooks joins Sarah to talk about dressing the world’s best hoopers (including girlfriend Sydney Colson), how tunnel fits have expanded the appeal of women’s basketball, and some of her favorite WNBA player looks this season. Plus, starting at the half, keeping the season alive, and the pink pony cover shoot club.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we are
one hundred percent absolutely saving the cell number for today's
guest and abusing the hell out of it before our
red carpet events. It's Thursday, September eighteenth, and on today show,
we'll be chatting with stylist and wardrobe consultant Amadi Brooks
about fitting the world's best players fashion in the w
how tunnel fits have expanded the appeal of women's hoops
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and archiving her gear from teams that aren't the Indiana
Fever so as to not offend girlfriend Sid Colson. Even
if you don't consider yourself a quote unquote fashion person,
this is definitely a conversation you don't want to miss. Plus,
starting at the half, keeping the season alive and the
Pink Pony cover shoot Club. It's all coming up right
after this welcome back slices. Here's what you need to
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know today. Let's start in the WNBA where Round one
of the playoffs continues. The Seattle Storm defeat at the
Las Vegas Aces Tuesday night, eighty six, eighty three to
force the game three and end the Aces win streak
at seventeen Street, led by Skyler Diggins, who finished the
night with twenty six points, and neck Ogumackay, who had
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twenty four points ten rebounds. The Storm rallied from a
fourteen point deficit midway through the third quarter to end
up winning the game by three. Storm center Dominique Malongo,
whose clutch bucket gave Seattle the lead in the final minute,
also became the first teenager in either the WNBA or
the MNBA to record two consecutive double doubles in the playoffs.
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The series now heads back to sin City for the
decisive final game tonight at nine thirty pm Eastern, with
a spot in the semi finals on the line. Meantime
over at Gainbridge Field House in Indianapolis, the Indiana Fever
also forced a game three in their first round series,
defeating the Atlanta Dreams seventy seven to sixty on Tuesday night.
Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with nineteen points and four assists.
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Eliah Boston added fifteen points, five boards, and three dimes.
With the game well in hand for the Fever, in
the fourth quarter, two Fever fans appeared to get ejected
from court side seats after a back and forth with
dreamstar Ali Shagray. Gray looked visibly upset as she walked
over to the Atlanta bench, where she was consoled by
Ryan Howard. Gray wasn't available to media after the game
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to elaborate on the incident. That Fever Dream series will
wrap up tonight, with the Dream hosting the decisive game
a seven thirty pm Eastern tip off. On Wednesday night,
it was Game two of the Phoenix Mercury New York
Liberty series, and after stealing Game one from the Mercury
on the road in Phoenix, the New York Liberty laid
an egg at home on Wednesday, getting blown out eighty
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six sixty at Barclays Center. Five Mercury players scored in
double digits, including Alyssa Thomas, who had fifteen points, seven
assists in six rebounds. Brianna Stewart, hobbled by a knee
injury suffering in Game one, played just twenty minutes, going
two for six from the field for six points. The
winner of the best of three series will be decided
Friday's Game three back at PHX Arena. We're recording this
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ahead of Game two between the Minnesota Links and Golden
State Valkyries, so we'll have more on that one in
tomorrow show More Hoops. On Wednesday, it was announced that
Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nikasse had been named
WNBA Coach of the Year. Coincidentally, the same day, she
was fined for comments about the officiating in game one
of her team series with the Minnesota Links. The first
year head coach earned fifty three of seventy two votes,
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with the Atlanta Dreams head coach Carl Smesco finishing in
second place with fifteen votes, and Las Vegas Aces head
coach Becky Hammond and Minnesota Links head coach Cheryl Reef
tying for third place with two votes. Apiece Nicasse led
the Valkyries to the best record for an expansion team
in WNBA history and helped them become the first expansion
team to qualify for the postseason in its inaugural year.
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In other award news, Dallas wingstar Paige Beckers was announced
as the Rookie of the Year, receiving seventy out of
seventy two votes. Beckers, who was the number one pick
in the draft after leading Yukon TWI national title last spring,
broke multiple records as a rookie in the w including
being the fastest rookie in league history to record five
hundred points and one hundred assists. She also broke the
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single game rookie points record, recording forty four points against
the Los Angeles Sparks back in August. In that contest,
she also became the first WNBA player to shoot at
least eighty percent from the field while scoring forty or
more points. The award reveal for this was a fun one,
with Page doing the now viral Spirit Tunnel at the
Jennifer Hudson Show, dancing down a row of people who
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were singing Paige Beckers on Jay Hudd shooting buckets She's
the one when she happened upon WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engelbert
at the end of the line, holding the Kia Rookie
of the Year trophy. After the handoff, the song changed
to Rookie of the Year, Rookie of the Year. She's
the Rookie of the Year. What. We'll link to the
video in our show notes. Also some big news for
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another player who's watching the postseason from home. The Chicago
Sky's Angel Ree Reebok will release Reese's signature Angel Reese
one sneaker tomorrow in three colorways receipts Ready, Diamond Dust,
and me Bounds. The shoes will be available on rebok
dot com and in select stores. A little more hoops news.
A few days ago, you might remember I mentioned that
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Tina Charles surpassed Diana Tarassi for most career field goals
made in WNBA history, but still trailed DT by over
two thousand points scored, and I wondered aloud how much
longer Charles, who turns thirty seven in December, might play
in the w and attempt to chase that record. Well,
we've got an update. Charles is announced she plans to
play a fourteenth WNBA season, and she'll play Athletes Unlimited
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Pro basketball this offseason to stay sharp. A reporter Sierra
Jones captured some really wonderful quotes from Charles, both about
her legacy as a player and her job as a
leader for younger hoopers. We'll link to that story in
the show notes to the NWSL. And an update on
the match between Racing Louisville and the Seattle Rain, which
was halted on Sunday when racing player and friend of
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the show Savannah Demelo had a medical emergency on the pitch.
The game, which was scoreless when it was paused at
the end of the first half, was finished out on
Tuesday night in Seattle, beginning at the start of the
second half and without any fans in attendance. Seattle managed
to pull out a one nothing victory thanks to a
goal in the ninetieth minute from Jess Fishlock. Ahead of
Tuesday night's restart, Demelo, who remains hospitalized in Seattle while
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undergoing additional testing, issued a statement through the team, saying, quote,
I'm lucky to have my family with me while I'm
waiting for test results to come back. I'm extremely thankful
to our whole medical staff for the quick response. They've
been with me every step of the way. The support
from everyone has truly meant the world to me, and
I'm excited to cheer on the girls this week end.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Players from both teams wore purple wristbands with SD seven
written on them on Tuesday night to the World Track
and Field Championships in Tokyo. On Wednesday, American Katie Moon
became the first woman to win three consecutive outdoor World
titles in the pole vault, clearing four point nine meters
to win the event and defeating fellow American and former
training partner Sandy Morris, who finished with silver. Back and
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field American Sydney McLaughlin. Livrony shattered the American record in
the four hundred meter during her semi final heat, clocking
forty eight point twenty nine seconds, good enough for the
eleventh fastest time in history. It broke the previous US
best mark set by Sonya Richards Ross in two thousand
and six. Mcglaughlan lvroney will compete in the four hundred
meter final today and if she wins, she'll become the
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first person to win world titles in both the four
hundred meter hurdles and the four hundred meter flat. That
races at nine to twenty four am Eastern Time, and
you can tune in on USA Network or Peacock. Finally,
a little more track, Kenya's faith kip Yegon solidified her
standing as the greatest female miler in history, winning her
fourth world title in the fifteen hundred meter this week.
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That's in addition to her three Olympic gold medals in
the event and her multiple world record breaking runs. Fellow
Kenyon Dorcas Ewoy won silver, and Australian Jessica Hall to
comb the bronze. Meantime front of the show, Nikki Hilts
placed fifth. That's their best ever finish in an outdoor
World Championship or Olympic final. We got to take a
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quick break, boomby come back. It's stylist Amadi Brooks, who
I caught up with on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
During the conversation we talked about some very specific looks
and tunnel fits, so we've linked to a bunch of
those in the show notes. If you want to click
and look at them while we're talking, All right, stick
care slices. We'll be right back joining us now. She's
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a celebrity stylist and wardrobe consultant with roots in Hoops.
A former basketball player at Eastern Kentucky University, she went
from boxing out bawlers to styling them. A Douglasville, Georgia native,
after graduating with degrees in apparel design and sports administration,
she worked with the mnba's Atlanta Hawks and as an
executive assistant to Serena Williams before opening her own firm
in twenty twenty two. She's fitted superstars, including Serena Williams,
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Lachina Robinson, Asia Wilson, and Sid Colson, and she draws
inspiration from a motto borrowed from her father. Look good,
feel good, play good. It's Amadi Brooks. Hi, Matti, Hi,
how are you joining us? I'm good. I want to
talk about your raspy voice and your sleepiness, which you
told us is due to going straight from Fashion Week
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to the Indiana Fever game. Your boob is Sid Colson,
so you got to make sure you're representing. Have you
been in the building from both of their first round
playoff games against the Dream No?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So I missed the one in Atlanta, but I literally,
as we rap, will be getting on a flight to
Atlanta so that I can't getting three.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So I'm dedicated. I can't.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There was no way I could not I miss a
playoff game in my home town, like I.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Had to go. And you nailed the You did the
how well do you know your pro girlfriend? Quiz? I
saw and you nailed it. You might have gotten a
little help with one or two, but they were no.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No, it was no right off, straight off the dome,
and it was and it was literally like a rally,
like it was like the end of a day of
going like to back to back to back appearances, and
I'm talking about as soon as we walked in the party,
I grabbed champagne off the train and then it was like, hey,
we got to this interview and I was like, all right,
let's just pray for the band. So I was like
reaching deep into the file tens.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
How long have you said, been together?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
A little over four years now?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Okay, so you've had some time to hear the same
stories of her greatness over and over.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was like, come on, girl.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, well, obviously a big bummer that she's injured and
not able to play. Less nerve wracking for you though,
that she's not out there.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm pretty it is, I'll say, less nerve wracking, but like,
once I'm supporting the team, I'm in it, so I
still get stressed. I don't have as many nerves, but
the nerves are still there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
They're still there.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And as a fashion person, I imagine as soon as
sids on a team, you gotta go a ham on
the gear. So what happens to the gear that you
got to rep her for previous teams? Is it in
the closet and maybe when she retires, you can wear
all the different stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Absolutely, it's archiveday, it's just like they just get pushed
suit aside for a little bit until it's safe again.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Are you ever like said I would like you to
play for this team? These colors are really best on me.
Like I'm a I'm a duel tone person.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So no, But it's it's always funny like when my
friends from May for the W are always like, hey,
like I want to send you some hats, and I'm
always like, ooh, this one can't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
This color, yeah, this colorway. I'm like, I'm a I'll
circle back at some point.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's in the archive for later. When my girlfriend woke
up mad at me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, I mean I'm an og W fan, so I
want all the teams, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Do you have any thoughts about Game three?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah? I feel good. I feel good.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I love the way they like pulled through and got
that lead last night, so I'm like, if we can
go off of that momentum and keep it rocking. Like,
but it's always tough playing in Atlanta that they just
have such a great crowd, Like I'm proud of my hometown.
I've been going to the game since like the stadium
like seats was empty and we'd be in like Georgia
Tech or like in Phillip Serena and it was like,
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you can they only have just the lower bowl open,
so to see like where it is now, I'm just
I'm just excited for the whole thing, like bias aside.
I love the energy, so it would be tough, but
I think I have faith in the team.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I do.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So we have to ask if you had anything to
do with Sid picking up that New York Skyline dress
to troll Kathy Engelbert.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Of course I played a part. I love a good troll.
But when I kid you, not like we were. We
were in separate places. I want to say we were
in separate cities. And she was shopping because we had
to go to the install Image Maker's Awards, and it
was like a really last minute decision. I was like
on a job with another client and I was like, hey,
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I just I can put together the outfit virtually, but
I just kind of need you to help me, like
get the last little piece, and she's at the store.
I believe it was like NeiMa Marcus and the dress
was like as soon as you walk in and she
calls me. She's like, you can't. I feel like I
could an answer because I was with a client. But
she sent me a picture of like you won't belie this,
and I was like buy it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So, for those who don't remember, Kathy Engelbert wore the
New York Skyline dress for the was it the draft
or was it the championship game? In the championship and
they were like, oh, she's biased for the Liberty. But
Sid immediately finds the dress puts it on absolute just hilarities,
so so good. Okay, I want to go back to
your hooping days because you played in college. What kind
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of game did you have? What kind of player were you?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I was I was a fundamental player. Like that's how
what I would say, like. I was very much like
I'm jab stepping, I'm going baseline, don't leave me open.
I'm gonna play hard, d like I did whatever was
needed for the team. Like my game definitely had to
transition some in college. I was like suffering from injuries.
I ended up having like a foot surgery, so I
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wasn't like, as you know, you know, you have to
adjust your game for your new body. And but my
favorite thing was baseline three, like in the corner like
everybody knows, do not leave me open.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And if you come and running, I'm going baseline.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Like and huh, very effective and efficient and the things
that I love to do. But I just also was
just like a coaches player, like what the team needs,
I'm going to go for it every time, whether I
was starting, whether I was coming off the bench, like
I'm just gonna go hard.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Do you still play?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Unfortunately no, I tore my ACL two years ago and
playing pick up at this like Nike a man, and
so I had to hang up the jersey officially, but
I missed it so much.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It was such a great It's just such an outlet
for me. It's always been an outlet for me.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So I'm in the current process of trying to figure
out what that new outlet is and fitness to stay active.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
But I miss it. If I could, i'd be picking
up a ball still.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean too yeah. But you're near
the game, which is cool. And before we get into
the kind of roots of your fashion love, which I
would like to do, I first want you just to
explain to us what the job of a stylist and
wardrobe consultant really looks like day to day for those
of us listening or me who don't have a wardrobe
stilus but probably should.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I mean, that's what I love about the job. It
varies day to day, it can be different. But like
during the WNBA season, once I have like my initial
consultation with my clients at the beginning of the season,
we schedule fittings. I kind of have a mood board,
an idea like based on each client, like with their
personal style and like the what the story is that
we're trying to tell that season for them and what's
the goal. So I'll like use Sidney for example, We've
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had like three or four fittings this season alone, and
there's a mood board. Then there's the outreach to the brands.
Then it's calling in the pieces. This year in particular,
we were very intentional about using black and minority designers
in Sydney's looks. So some looks for loans from designers,
so you know, handling the logistics of like okay, if
she gets it them, now, when do we wear it,
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slating the looks by schedule, and making sure the team,
the team under me gets everything back to designers on time.
So it's like it's a lot of different like pieces
that goes on behind the scene, before the tunnel and
after the tunnel. But once I get those looks out
the way, my other days can be filled with like
working for a project, like a step for a photoshoot,
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or another client that might just need like a one look,
So like having calls when we need to checking in,
making sure everybody's feeling satisfied, you know, and adjusting when
you have to pivot, because especially dealing with athletes, there's
always a pivot at some point. So yeah, I love
that part of my job though, that I can change
day to day and I can say, oh, right now,
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you know, I'm currently down, I'm not working on anything,
and then something come in and I'm back at it again.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So yeah, I think the tunnel fits has been such
a huge part of growing the game and obviously such
a benefit for your job. How do you see the
tunnel fits the interest in what the players are wearing,
the clear and obvious beauty and style and vibe that
these players have to showcase these looks. How do you
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see that playing a role in how the w has
blown up?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
It's like a huge role because I think we're getting
to see another side of the players that you don't
you you weren't typically getting to see, and like this
is just because there's more eyes on it now. It's
not to say that other players didn't have personal style,
like you look back at like the Taie Youngs, like Cambage,
I mean I could include like Chryl and Tisha and
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those things. Like these players still had a sense of
their own personal style. But now that it's on Front
Street and it's getting more media attention, it draws an
attention from other brands. It's just a great like personal
branding tactic now. And like I've seen people or fans
say verbatim like they've started watching games or following a player,
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following a team because they liked a player style and
that's so cool, Like we're still finding ways to attract
people to the game, and like you know, the saying
like if you you're just now starting to watch, like
we've told you so.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
We told you well, told you so, like welcome.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
But it's cool that and the style and need attention
on a tunnel can be like an avenue to attract
viewers as well, because now you're getting people from different
spaces and different demographics coming in and finding new love
for the game from something that she would not have expected.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You know, it's hard for me because I'm at the
age where, like, I still want to look good, but
I just don't have that much time. And I'm like, ah,
I'm just like middle aged white lady. No one cares.
But then it's also funny because I follow so many
athletes that I'm like, Okay, I know what's in style,
but it's in style for someone with a perfect body,
and the majority of them are queer. So I'm like
a straight old white lady, but I'm trying to dress
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like these like insanely fit queer twenty somethings because it
looks on them. And I'm like, okay, I think I
can put Nope, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Okay, maybe I need to talk to somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But it's funny because I do. I do love how
so much of the fashion that I see is just
because I follow all the athletes. I don't like follow
fashion people. I just follow, Yeah, but some of them
are teaching me a lot. Anyway, I want to know
how you first got into fashion. When did you I
first kind of realized you had an interest beyond just
what you were wearing every day.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I think I don't think I knew knew, but when
I talked to others and people like that know me
since you know high school, college days, Everybody's like, oh no,
you were always, you know, dressed up or you always
were like very intentional about what you were wearing. And
I think it was just in me, like my parents
were that way. My dad ironically like he played college
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football and that he had the nickname of like school
boyd Q because everybody would come to his room prior
to going out or going to events and being like,
what should I wear like with this one or that one?
And my dad would tell me that all the time.
So I think I literally just had made the correlation.
The other day, I was like, oh, well, I guess
I am technically doing exactly what my dad was doing,
but I scaled it. And so it's just always kind
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of been like a family thing. And I initially had
interest in interior design, which I think I still have
an interest in it. But when I got to East
then Kentucky, they had just closed the program because it
wasn't enough students enrolled, and so I started off like undeclared,
and I tested the warders and a few things that,
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like I thought I might go into sports medicine because
I was always injured.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So I was like, oh, I belong over there.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And then I was like, oh, what about broadcast Like,
so I took like a broadcast class.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I was very just like trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
And I took a career test, like for during one
of our summer sessions, I was in this career inspiration
class and they all of my results came back through
like fashion fashion fashion, right, So I you know, I
took a look at the major it's a curriculum, and
I joined and I learned so much and it just
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felt like a natural fit. And I knew like the
way that I wanted to enter the world or stay
in that fashion space would be to incorporate both of
my loves.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And I would have never caught it would come to this.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
And that's what the reason why I also got my
master's in sports admin illoid I'm going to know like
the business side of sports and I'm going to combine
and did not know exactly what that would look like,
but you know, through trial and error and like word
of mouth, I think I've kind of found my niche.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, and it's such a perfect time for it. It
is the intersection of the two and clearly you have
an eye for it, and like that's the job. And
it's wild to me how you can just see people everyday,
people that you're like, how did they put those things together?
And it works and you know, yeah, I want to talk.
You just mentioned when you are working with athletes, you're
loaning out pieces and then sending them back to designers.
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That's obviously really necessary if they're wearing really high end stuff,
and it's especially necessary for a league like the w
where they're fighting for better salaries and more pay but
where it's not easy to have new clothes for every
single tunnel fit or to be rocking whatever the brand new,
hottest thing is. So we're hoping this changes with the
upcoming CBA negotiations. Even if they start making more cash,
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high fashion is pricey. So how do you find the
balance between wanting to borrow those pieces from design versus
doing some high low or figuring out how you can
make them find looks that work for them on a budget.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think it's just it's athlete by athlete.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
You know, and I never want people to have the
perception that style just to have style, like it has
to break your pockets. Yes, there is some intentionality behind things.
There is some investment that has to be done to
really build your brand, depending on where you want to
go with it and what your goal is and how
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you want to portray yourself to the world. But I
do think that there's a happy medium that you have
to find that still keeps it attainable. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm myself have always.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Been someone that like creates a look on a budget
for my own self, and like that's how I grew up,
like watching my parents go do high low and you know,
make the best out of what you can because I
think at the end of the day, personal style is
not about exactly what's on your body, but what makes
you feel good while it's on your body and how
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you make it your own. So yeah, it's a balance.
It is a balance. There are some times where when
you have a goal, you have to have the conversations
of like, Okay, if this is the level that we
want to get to, this is what it takes to
get to that level.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But at the same.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Time, there's always ways and it just depends on how
serious you are about it.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And you know, each person is different, each individual is different.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I mean, if I learned anything from America's Next Top Model,
you can just rock a white tank top in genes
if you do it right. That's what Tyra always told them,
take it, make it simple. Of course they all were,
you know, attempting to be supermodels, so that kind of
helps kind of look anything, how do you balance your
critical eye and your knowledge about what looks good and
what's fashionable with your client requests and how often do
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you butt heads a little bit because they're like, this
is what I like, this is what I want, and
you're like, that's not it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I mean, I think that's just like human connection, right,
We're always not going to agree on everything. But I
think the difference between dilling athletes versus an entertainer or
someone in a different space is the clothes is an
accessory to the main thing, Right. It's not like they're
not in this outfit for the entire night. This is
(24:15):
a moment and they're coming to work. So I think
I try to keep that mentality too, that at the
end of the day, yes, this is what I want,
this is the vision that I have, but I also.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Need you to feel confident and comfortable.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So there does have to be some compromise because who
wants to go to work and not feel good about yourself?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Right, especially as.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Something as serious as like you know, a major game,
like you want to go in feeling good. It goes
back to my saying that I said, all the time,
you know, Deon Sanders shout out, my dad's shout out,
like you.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Look good, you feel good, you play good.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And you can always tell when somebody's not completely comfortable
and something that they're wearing, and it goes back to
like what you said. It can be something simple, but
if you're confident and like aura is exuding through it,
like people are like, oh wow, that looks different, wouldn't
have respected to wear that. So I do think that
there has to be some compromise, right And at the
end of the day, if I have a vision and
(25:11):
you just genuinely I can tell, like the energy is
not matching, you're not feeling good. I love to ask
the question of like what what don't you like? What
would you change? And like how can we still get
this look off? And you know, execute the vision make
it look good? But still keep you comfortable and it's
okay to push. There's there's times where I will push,
(25:32):
but I think there's also times like it's like, okay,
if I'm not going to push on this one, but
if I don't push on this one, then I got
to push you on.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
This I get next. Get Yeah, you remember, do you
remember a time when someone wasn't sure about a look
and then you pushed and then they got really praised
for it and they came back and they were like, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
You right.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No, I will say I'm not going to call the
player out, but I've had.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Call them out.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'll say I've had a player in the past where
it's like, you know, we're kind of unsure before the game,
and like we're sending pictures to each other, like she's
sending the picture and I'm like, well, you know what
I'm I'm the queen of like let's hop on the
FaceTime real quick and then I'll show like a different
way to where it, just like with something I have
if I can't be right there with them and then
the tunnel pics dropped and I remember them sending me
(26:17):
the pictures being like everybody loves it. And I was like,
I know, I know they did. I know, you just
gotta trust it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So, yeah, you look great. I ain't gonna say I
told you so, but I told you you looked great.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay. What about a time you push for something and
you were like, all right, you were right, that didn't work.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I can't think of no messes you said it I did.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Okay, Okay, I can't think of everyone. I will say
I've had times g I'm like, ooh, I would have
I would have chowed a different shoot, Like when you
see it out in the world, You're like, I would
have I would have made a different decision.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
But I don't think.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I think a part of me never is like just
unsatisfied with a look. It might be revisions that I
want made.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
But what's your favorite Asia Wilson look that you styled
for her.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I think the one that came to mind immediately was
this green all green Dan.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I was just gonna say, my brain just goes green.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Melita Baumeister was the designer, and I think that one
was my favorite because it was the first game post
her like era of doing the white tea Grace West
because she wanted to get back in her rhythm and
so like the first pop out and it was actually
like one of the first games she sat out for
like rest purposes or and like right before the playoffs,
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so it was kind of like a pop out and
she got to keep it on the whole game.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, and the banks and straight across and the super
straight hair, and.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It was something that came together, like it was it
was in the vaults, but it came together the day
before because we were on set and I was like, Oh,
I have it with me.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Let's just try it on. Let's try it on.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Like we knew we wanted to wear, but we wanted
to try it on again. And so we tried it
on and we were like, oh, this is it, and
her stylists, her hair solace was there and her makeup
artist was there, and we just like had like a
communative meeting. Yeah, it looked so good and we came
together with that, and so I think that's why it's
one of my favorites of hers for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And the green just popped on her.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, look what about your lady, sid Colson, one of
your favorite looks you've styled for her.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I kind of want to go to the last game
that she played the custom Dahlia suiting.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It was her first custom.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We had the conversation before the season started about her
wanting to try to be in like more tailored looks,
more suiting. So having that experience of actually being able
to get her a customed suit and shout out to Dahlia.
They're doing amazing things at the w Like I think
Andrea Carter Rakia Jackson had on one of their suits recently.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Is this the one with the solver pants?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
No, this is the one that it's like burnt orange.
And it was like the day it was like the
day after her birthday. She just wore August seventh. I
believe she had like the pins on it.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It was a and she.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Had it was a three teeth so it had a
vest yeah yeah, and it was just it just fit
her so perfectly, and we had the gold boot to
pop and the hair was done.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It just yeah, it was off the glasses that.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Were the orange.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, I think that one.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And then it was kind of it just felt symbolic
because it was the glass game that she played of
this season, unfortunately, but it just felt like we had
accomplished our goal, Like this is where you wanted to
get to and it was almost like an ushering into
a new era of where she culminated there.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, I hate when I see things that are custom
because I'm like, oh, that's how clothes can look when
they fit you right. That costs money and time and
I need to put something more.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
But you'll be surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I tell people all the time there's local tailors in
your city that you know, you can get your clothes
that waists brought in for not too much. You know,
it's not a full custom looks, but just that little
de tell fit you right him in that pant like,
and it's not expensive if you find the right person,
and you know, it's got to give yourself a little time,
(30:09):
you know. If you want to wear something coming up,
go try it. Like once you experience it, you never
look at your clothes the same.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, yeah, you never look at your clothes the same.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Again, is there a dream w client that you haven't
worked with that you'd like.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
To I feel like I've been fortunate enough to hit my.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I guess my goals.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I remember some years ago I wrote down like I
would love to start age Wilson, and you know, we
had our time working together Cheryl's soops. I wore twenty
two in college and I've always admired her, loved her.
We connected before when I was working in the NBA.
She came to a Hawks game and like, I shot
my shot and introduced myself to her. I wasn't styling
at the time, but I had like a little side
(30:55):
thing where I made custom jackets, and I was like, Cheryl,
I love you, would.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Love to make you custom jackets. So we were conne
did then.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
So then to turn around as a stylist and having
my own business and to be able to work with
her was like a dream come true. I've also had
some opportunity to work with another legend recent more recently,
and I just I'm just grateful.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Was the whad growing up?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I don't know if I could say, yeah, it's an
upcoming project, it's project, but it is a legend for another.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Com Okay, okay, So that that was like a flat.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We've got some ideas, but we'll just let it sit there.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, let us see.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, So on Good Game, we celebrate the end of
every year with the slices. Now we've only had one year,
so we've only done it once, but we look forward
to the second annual slices at the end of this year.
One of the awards that we handed out last year
was the Serena Williams Catsuit Award for best fit on
or off the court, and last year we nominated white
(31:54):
T shirt. Asia was alex Yes, Misha was Courtney Williams
all black leather shaft fit from September, and mine was
Kelsey Plum's leather assassin style Alexander Wang black leather like
mini vest with the molded cups and the baggy low
rise trousers. She had those cat eye glasses. Yes, we
know there are a few more months left this year,
(32:16):
but do you have a couple of nominees that come
to mind instantly for this season of best Serena Williams
cats a theward for best for Donna off the court.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
You know, I'm gonna be a little biased.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I'm going to nominate Sid but if we're talking about
somebody that is still on the court and playing, I
think I'm going to lean towards Skyler Diggins's. I think
she's consistent in her style is Sydney Page. They just
do such a great job and I think as a
fashion person in the brands that they're wearing, and the consistency
(32:48):
of her low season and her looks in the range, Like,
if I had to be unbiased, that's that's that would
be mine.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well done, you well done? You shouting out to someone else?
Are you just like the mill? That was it?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You just look marketing a moment too. I was when
I saw it, I was unaware of like the partnership,
and I said, oh, this is the partnership.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I know it, I know it, and then.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I hope, I hope it is just wearing that.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
But I just love I love intentional style, and I
love storyteller. I love stepping outside of the box and
doing something different and like where you see it.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
But I think the look that is coming to.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
My mind automatically is the Tom Brown recently love the tie, Yeah,
I loved I loved Tom Brown, And so I think
that was.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
The people who pull it off, like just especially more
mask leaning. It just like lends itself in this really sophisticated,
beautiful way to women who dress more masks. Yeah, you
know who's been crushing it lately?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Who?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I think it's been a real quick turnaround. I think
if she approaches being more of an adult and entering
the pros.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I think it's easy, fun and you know, she she's
been getting stopped by this. She just got to stoped
by the same style as oh during New York Fashion
Week Sydney.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh okay, I as schylar chickens.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, I remember, I'm waiting to She looks really good.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, like matching outfit with the flower yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The kids super Yeah, with the nails.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, she looks really good. And I love seeing someone
get that glow up when they kind of go from
like sporty.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Kids saying like okay and yeah she's I'm excited to
see them, Like yeah, how that how that works?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Comes together? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Do you now have to start recruiting like coaches do?
I think you would kind of have to go into
the college ranks, start looking around and be like, let
me get my claws into that one before they don't
row so someone else doesn't steal her.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Sometimes I like, I think I'm more so like a
universe and like a manifesto in that way of.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Like they will come be someone.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Some people don't agree with it. Some people are like, girl,
you gotta put yourself out there. But I'm like, I
feel it out.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, I watch you sense it out every day as
a walking billboard, and they know where to.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Come, You know where you are.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
There any trends or styles that you've leaned into at
the time, and now you're like, I despise that. I
know it was in style at the time, but I hate.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It right now. I can't stand the skinny jean really, yeah,
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
And I think it might be a personal thing too,
just like as as my own body changes.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
It just doesn't work. It didn't work. And I used
to love a skinny. We love a skinny, right.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
He was a tall girl because it was easy to
do the to do a cuff and it does.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
It was stylish for it to look cropped. Yes, like
back in the day when we were supposed to be
wearing the boot cut that dragged on the floor, we
couldn't find You.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Couldn't do that.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And it looks crazy because now you have like this
flare randomly above your ankle.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yes, well you baggy leg, because baggy leg you need
to wear tight on top. But I got a big
old rack of lamb and I don't have a tight
set of abs, so I look stupid. You can't go baggy,
baggy with.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Big it's a proportion.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, so I'm kind of like I'm hanging on to
a little bit of skinny or at least straight leg
because I can't do the big white leg.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well, I think this is what I think.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
The way I go about it is like if I
go back on the bottom and I do prefer to
go baggy around because I'm the same like I don't
like a type sitting top for that breathing. Yeah, I
will play with like the the proportions in the shape
of the outfit. So then I'll throw like something over
my shoulders so that it doesn't feel so like just
straight up and down because everything's boxing the shoulders kind of.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
It kind of gives you a little triangle up top.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
And then like a bringing and then another triangle you
know what I mean, to kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Take a I mean, I need a shape on a
dress otherwise I just look.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Like I just laugh.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yes, And it just seemed like since that ball stopped bouncing,
they just want.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
To keep They say, we're here. I'm like, all right, well,
I guess I have to adjust.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You're not going anywhere any trends or styles that are
just coming into fashion. Now that we should be keeping
an eye on that. You're like, ooh, that's just getting going.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Just getting going.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
I think we're seeing customization in back so much like
with the charms and the pins, the customized in your bag,
like we you know you've seen Page wearing the customized
coach bag so much. And I think that big bag
look like from the two thousands, Like I saw somebody say,
like I missed when we just wear big bags everywhere,
(37:18):
Like I can just put everything in it and.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
I was good for the day. I never have to
go back home.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Or miss anything. And so I like that that's coming back.
And you know already with the athletes, you'll see them
walk in with the duffle on the men's and women's side,
no matter the sport.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But I love not been in we went to those
damn Lizzo bags that can't even fit like a little
phone in there.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
But it's like it's just like remember, yeah, it's like this.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Like the concept, it wasn't very helpful.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
So I do like that the big bag, but also
the customization of everything, the patches, the pins, the charms.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Are the tiny glasses going to be the thing now
because I look like a dumb ass in.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Those I'm not good with the depends it depends on
who the person is.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Do you have the face for it? Go for it.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
We're all not going to be forced into that. No, okay,
thank god.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Don't do it if you don't feel it, I look
like Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Last question for you, a nearly impossible question. We play
a little game called good good or Goodest. It's similar
to bench start cut, but you don't have to cut anything.
It's just something's good, something's good, or and something is
good est.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Zendaea's closet, Beyonce's closet, Rihanna's closet.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
On My Big Three.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Okay, so good, I go Beyonce, it's good. Still still
got love Gooder gooder d.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Rihanna's your top one.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Marihanna, we have a thing. Okay, she doesn't know it yet,
but we do. I have She does not know. Oh,
but I'm getting closer.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Like you know, I'm a savage expenseee ambassador, so I
gotta Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I have a lot of people that I have things
with that don't know it either.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
They don't know it yet.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I'm working, Yes, we're working on it.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, we're working on, but I have to give it
to I think her because her style is so her
personal style is more similar to mine, like she's going
to pull off some men's where she's going to pull
off a sneaker.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
She she can do it all.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
And like Zendaya is like my dream closet once I
have money, Yes, I will manifest that shit manifesto, but
I think off top like as I am who I
am today, Rihanna's closet resonates a little bit more with me.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Well, we love chatting with you. We love watching your
work and seeing your work, especially on your lady said
who We are obsessed with here. She's one of our favors.
So thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Thank you for having me. It's a good time.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
We got to take another break. When we come back,
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we'll be chatting with stylist and wardrobe consultant Amadi Brooks
about fitting the world's best players fashion in the w
how tunnel fits have expanded the appeal of women's hoops
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know today. Let's start in the WNBA where Round one
of the playoffs continues. The Seattle Storm defeat at the
Las Vegas Aces Tuesday night, eighty six, eighty three to
force the game three and end the Aces win streak
at seventeen Street, led by Skyler Diggins, who finished the
night with twenty six points, and neck Ogumackay, who had
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twenty four points ten rebounds. The Storm rallied from a
fourteen point deficit midway through the third quarter to end
up winning the game by three. Storm center Dominique Malongo,
whose clutch bucket gave Seattle the lead in the final minute,
also became the first teenager in either the WNBA or
the MNBA to record two consecutive double doubles in the playoffs.
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The series now heads back to sin City for the
decisive final game tonight at nine thirty pm Eastern, with
a spot in the semi finals on the line. Meantime
over at Gainbridge Field House in Indianapolis, the Indiana Fever
also forced a game three in their first round series,
defeating the Atlanta Dreams seventy seven to sixty on Tuesday night.
Kelsey Mitchell led the Fever with nineteen points and four assists.
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Eliah Boston added fifteen points, five boards, and three dimes.
With the game well in hand for the Fever, in
the fourth quarter, two Fever fans appeared to get ejected
from court side seats after a back and forth with
dreamstar Ali Shagray. Gray looked visibly upset as she walked
over to the Atlanta bench, where she was consoled by
Ryan Howard. Gray wasn't available to media after the game
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to elaborate on the incident. That Fever Dream series will
wrap up tonight, with the Dream hosting the decisive game
a seven thirty pm Eastern tip off. On Wednesday night,
it was Game two of the Phoenix Mercury New York
Liberty series, and after stealing Game one from the Mercury
on the road in Phoenix, the New York Liberty laid
an egg at home on Wednesday, getting blown out eighty
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six sixty at Barclays Center. Five Mercury players scored in
double digits, including Alyssa Thomas, who had fifteen points, seven
assists in six rebounds. Brianna Stewart, hobbled by a knee
injury suffering in Game one, played just twenty minutes, going
two for six from the field for six points. The
winner of the best of three series will be decided
Friday's Game three back at PHX Arena. We're recording this
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ahead of Game two between the Minnesota Links and Golden
State Valkyries, so we'll have more on that one in
tomorrow show More Hoops. On Wednesday, it was announced that
Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nikasse had been named
WNBA Coach of the Year. Coincidentally, the same day, she
was fined for comments about the officiating in game one
of her team series with the Minnesota Links. The first
year head coach earned fifty three of seventy two votes,
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with the Atlanta Dreams head coach Carl Smesco finishing in
second place with fifteen votes, and Las Vegas Aces head
coach Becky Hammond and Minnesota Links head coach Cheryl Reef
tying for third place with two votes. Apiece Nicasse led
the Valkyries to the best record for an expansion team
in WNBA history and helped them become the first expansion
team to qualify for the postseason in its inaugural year.
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In other award news, Dallas wingstar Paige Beckers was announced
as the Rookie of the Year, receiving seventy out of
seventy two votes. Beckers, who was the number one pick
in the draft after leading Yukon TWI national title last spring,
broke multiple records as a rookie in the w including
being the fastest rookie in league history to record five
hundred points and one hundred assists. She also broke the
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single game rookie points record, recording forty four points against
the Los Angeles Sparks back in August. In that contest,
she also became the first WNBA player to shoot at
least eighty percent from the field while scoring forty or
more points. The award reveal for this was a fun one,
with Page doing the now viral Spirit Tunnel at the
Jennifer Hudson Show, dancing down a row of people who
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were singing Paige Beckers on Jay Hudd shooting buckets She's
the one when she happened upon WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engelbert
at the end of the line, holding the Kia Rookie
of the Year trophy. After the handoff, the song changed
to Rookie of the Year, Rookie of the Year. She's
the Rookie of the Year. What. We'll link to the
video in our show notes. Also some big news for
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another player who's watching the postseason from home. The Chicago
Sky's Angel Ree Reebok will release Reese's signature Angel Reese
one sneaker tomorrow in three colorways receipts Ready, Diamond Dust,
and me Bounds. The shoes will be available on rebok
dot com and in select stores. A little more hoops news.
A few days ago, you might remember I mentioned that
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Tina Charles surpassed Diana Tarassi for most career field goals
made in WNBA history, but still trailed DT by over
two thousand points scored, and I wondered aloud how much
longer Charles, who turns thirty seven in December, might play
in the w and attempt to chase that record. Well,
we've got an update. Charles is announced she plans to
play a fourteenth WNBA season, and she'll play Athletes Unlimited
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Pro basketball this offseason to stay sharp. A reporter Sierra
Jones captured some really wonderful quotes from Charles, both about
her legacy as a player and her job as a
leader for younger hoopers. We'll link to that story in
the show notes to the NWSL. And an update on
the match between Racing Louisville and the Seattle Rain, which
was halted on Sunday when racing player and friend of
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the show Savannah Demelo had a medical emergency on the pitch.
The game, which was scoreless when it was paused at
the end of the first half, was finished out on
Tuesday night in Seattle, beginning at the start of the
second half and without any fans in attendance. Seattle managed
to pull out a one nothing victory thanks to a
goal in the ninetieth minute from Jess Fishlock. Ahead of
Tuesday night's restart, Demelo, who remains hospitalized in Seattle while
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undergoing additional testing, issued a statement through the team, saying, quote,
I'm lucky to have my family with me while I'm
waiting for test results to come back. I'm extremely thankful
to our whole medical staff for the quick response. They've
been with me every step of the way. The support
from everyone has truly meant the world to me, and
I'm excited to cheer on the girls this week end.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Players from both teams wore purple wristbands with SD seven
written on them on Tuesday night to the World Track
and Field Championships in Tokyo. On Wednesday, American Katie Moon
became the first woman to win three consecutive outdoor World
titles in the pole vault, clearing four point nine meters
to win the event and defeating fellow American and former
training partner Sandy Morris, who finished with silver. Back and
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field American Sydney McLaughlin. Livrony shattered the American record in
the four hundred meter during her semi final heat, clocking
forty eight point twenty nine seconds, good enough for the
eleventh fastest time in history. It broke the previous US
best mark set by Sonya Richards Ross in two thousand
and six. Mcglaughlan lvroney will compete in the four hundred
meter final today and if she wins, she'll become the
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first person to win world titles in both the four
hundred meter hurdles and the four hundred meter flat. That
races at nine to twenty four am Eastern Time, and
you can tune in on USA Network or Peacock. Finally,
a little more track, Kenya's faith kip Yegon solidified her
standing as the greatest female miler in history, winning her
fourth world title in the fifteen hundred meter this week.
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That's in addition to her three Olympic gold medals in
the event and her multiple world record breaking runs. Fellow
Kenyon Dorcas Ewoy won silver, and Australian Jessica Hall to
comb the bronze. Meantime front of the show, Nikki Hilts
placed fifth. That's their best ever finish in an outdoor
World Championship or Olympic final. We got to take a
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quick break, boomby come back. It's stylist Amadi Brooks, who
I caught up with on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
During the conversation we talked about some very specific looks
and tunnel fits, so we've linked to a bunch of
those in the show notes. If you want to click
and look at them while we're talking, All right, stick
care slices. We'll be right back joining us now. She's
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a celebrity stylist and wardrobe consultant with roots in Hoops.
A former basketball player at Eastern Kentucky University, she went
from boxing out bawlers to styling them. A Douglasville, Georgia native,
after graduating with degrees in apparel design and sports administration,
she worked with the mnba's Atlanta Hawks and as an
executive assistant to Serena Williams before opening her own firm
in twenty twenty two. She's fitted superstars, including Serena Williams,
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Lachina Robinson, Asia Wilson, and Sid Colson, and she draws
inspiration from a motto borrowed from her father. Look good,
feel good, play good. It's Amadi Brooks. Hi, Matti, Hi,
how are you joining us? I'm good. I want to
talk about your raspy voice and your sleepiness, which you
told us is due to going straight from Fashion Week
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to the Indiana Fever game. Your boob is Sid Colson,
so you got to make sure you're representing. Have you
been in the building from both of their first round
playoff games against the Dream No?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So I missed the one in Atlanta, but I literally,
as we rap, will be getting on a flight to
Atlanta so that I can't getting three.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So I'm dedicated. I can't.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
There was no way I could not I miss a
playoff game in my home town, like I.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Had to go. And you nailed the You did the
how well do you know your pro girlfriend? Quiz? I
saw and you nailed it. You might have gotten a
little help with one or two, but they were no.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
No, it was no right off, straight off the dome,
and it was and it was literally like a rally,
like it was like the end of a day of
going like to back to back to back appearances, and
I'm talking about as soon as we walked in the party,
I grabbed champagne off the train and then it was like, hey,
we got to this interview and I was like, all right,
let's just pray for the band. So I was like
reaching deep into the file tens.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
How long have you said, been together?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
A little over four years now?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Okay, so you've had some time to hear the same
stories of her greatness over and over.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I was like, come on, girl.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yeah, well, obviously a big bummer that she's injured and
not able to play. Less nerve wracking for you though,
that she's not out there.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I'm pretty it is, I'll say, less nerve wracking, but like,
once I'm supporting the team, I'm in it, so I
still get stressed. I don't have as many nerves, but
the nerves are still there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
They're still there.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And as a fashion person, I imagine as soon as
sids on a team, you gotta go a ham on
the gear. So what happens to the gear that you
got to rep her for previous teams? Is it in
the closet and maybe when she retires, you can wear
all the different stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Absolutely, it's archiveday, it's just like they just get pushed
suit aside for a little bit until it's safe again.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Are you ever like said I would like you to
play for this team? These colors are really best on me.
Like I'm a I'm a duel tone person.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So no, But it's it's always funny like when my
friends from May for the W are always like, hey,
like I want to send you some hats, and I'm
always like, ooh, this one can't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
This color, yeah, this colorway. I'm like, I'm a I'll
circle back at some point.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It's in the archive for later. When my girlfriend woke
up mad at me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, I mean I'm an og W fan, so I
want all the teams, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Do you have any thoughts about Game three?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah? I feel good. I feel good.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I love the way they like pulled through and got
that lead last night, so I'm like, if we can
go off of that momentum and keep it rocking. Like,
but it's always tough playing in Atlanta that they just
have such a great crowd, Like I'm proud of my hometown.
I've been going to the game since like the stadium
like seats was empty and we'd be in like Georgia
Tech or like in Phillip Serena and it was like,
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you can they only have just the lower bowl open,
so to see like where it is now, I'm just
I'm just excited for the whole thing, like bias aside.
I love the energy, so it would be tough, but
I think I have faith in the team.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
I do.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
So we have to ask if you had anything to
do with Sid picking up that New York Skyline dress
to troll Kathy Engelbert.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Of course I played a part. I love a good troll.
But when I kid you, not like we were. We
were in separate places. I want to say we were
in separate cities. And she was shopping because we had
to go to the install Image Maker's Awards, and it
was like a really last minute decision. I was like
on a job with another client and I was like, hey,
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I just I can put together the outfit virtually, but
I just kind of need you to help me, like
get the last little piece, and she's at the store.
I believe it was like NeiMa Marcus and the dress
was like as soon as you walk in and she
calls me. She's like, you can't. I feel like I
could an answer because I was with a client. But
she sent me a picture of like you won't belie this,
and I was like buy it.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
So, for those who don't remember, Kathy Engelbert wore the
New York Skyline dress for the was it the draft
or was it the championship game? In the championship and
they were like, oh, she's biased for the Liberty. But
Sid immediately finds the dress puts it on absolute just hilarities,
so so good. Okay, I want to go back to
your hooping days because you played in college. What kind
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of game did you have? What kind of player were you?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I was I was a fundamental player. Like that's how
what I would say, like. I was very much like
I'm jab stepping, I'm going baseline, don't leave me open.
I'm gonna play hard, d like I did whatever was
needed for the team. Like my game definitely had to
transition some in college. I was like suffering from injuries.
I ended up having like a foot surgery, so I
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wasn't like, as you know, you know, you have to
adjust your game for your new body. And but my
favorite thing was baseline three, like in the corner like
everybody knows, do not leave me open.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
And if you come and running, I'm going baseline.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Like and huh, very effective and efficient and the things
that I love to do. But I just also was
just like a coaches player, like what the team needs,
I'm going to go for it every time, whether I
was starting, whether I was coming off the bench, like
I'm just gonna go hard.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Do you still play?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Unfortunately no, I tore my ACL two years ago and
playing pick up at this like Nike a man, and
so I had to hang up the jersey officially, but
I missed it so much.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It was such a great It's just such an outlet
for me. It's always been an outlet for me.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
So I'm in the current process of trying to figure
out what that new outlet is and fitness to stay active.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
But I miss it. If I could, i'd be picking
up a ball still.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean too yeah. But you're near
the game, which is cool. And before we get into
the kind of roots of your fashion love, which I
would like to do, I first want you just to
explain to us what the job of a stylist and
wardrobe consultant really looks like day to day for those
of us listening or me who don't have a wardrobe
stilus but probably should.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I mean, that's what I love about the job. It
varies day to day, it can be different. But like
during the WNBA season, once I have like my initial
consultation with my clients at the beginning of the season,
we schedule fittings. I kind of have a mood board,
an idea like based on each client, like with their
personal style and like the what the story is that
we're trying to tell that season for them and what's
the goal. So I'll like use Sidney for example, We've
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had like three or four fittings this season alone, and
there's a mood board. Then there's the outreach to the brands.
Then it's calling in the pieces. This year in particular,
we were very intentional about using black and minority designers
in Sydney's looks. So some looks for loans from designers,
so you know, handling the logistics of like okay, if
she gets it them, now, when do we wear it,
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slating the looks by schedule, and making sure the team,
the team under me gets everything back to designers on time.
So it's like it's a lot of different like pieces
that goes on behind the scene, before the tunnel and
after the tunnel. But once I get those looks out
the way, my other days can be filled with like
working for a project, like a step for a photoshoot,
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or another client that might just need like a one look,
So like having calls when we need to checking in,
making sure everybody's feeling satisfied, you know, and adjusting when
you have to pivot, because especially dealing with athletes, there's
always a pivot at some point. So yeah, I love
that part of my job though, that I can change
day to day and I can say, oh, right now,
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you know, I'm currently down, I'm not working on anything,
and then something come in and I'm back at it again.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So yeah, I think the tunnel fits has been such
a huge part of growing the game and obviously such
a benefit for your job. How do you see the
tunnel fits the interest in what the players are wearing,
the clear and obvious beauty and style and vibe that
these players have to showcase these looks. How do you
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see that playing a role in how the w has
blown up?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
It's like a huge role because I think we're getting
to see another side of the players that you don't
you you weren't typically getting to see, and like this
is just because there's more eyes on it now. It's
not to say that other players didn't have personal style,
like you look back at like the Taie Youngs, like Cambage,
I mean I could include like Chryl and Tisha and
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those things. Like these players still had a sense of
their own personal style. But now that it's on Front
Street and it's getting more media attention, it draws an
attention from other brands. It's just a great like personal
branding tactic now. And like I've seen people or fans
say verbatim like they've started watching games or following a player,
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following a team because they liked a player style and
that's so cool, Like we're still finding ways to attract
people to the game, and like you know, the saying
like if you you're just now starting to watch, like
we've told you so.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
We told you well, told you so, like welcome.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
But it's cool that and the style and need attention
on a tunnel can be like an avenue to attract
viewers as well, because now you're getting people from different
spaces and different demographics coming in and finding new love
for the game from something that she would not have expected.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
You know, it's hard for me because I'm at the
age where, like, I still want to look good, but
I just don't have that much time. And I'm like, ah,
I'm just like middle aged white lady. No one cares.
But then it's also funny because I follow so many
athletes that I'm like, Okay, I know what's in style,
but it's in style for someone with a perfect body,
and the majority of them are queer. So I'm like
a straight old white lady, but I'm trying to dress
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like these like insanely fit queer twenty somethings because it
looks on them. And I'm like, okay, I think I
can put Nope, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Okay, maybe I need to talk to somebody.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
But it's funny because I do. I do love how
so much of the fashion that I see is just
because I follow all the athletes. I don't like follow
fashion people. I just follow, Yeah, but some of them
are teaching me a lot. Anyway, I want to know
how you first got into fashion. When did you I
first kind of realized you had an interest beyond just
what you were wearing every day.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I think I don't think I knew knew, but when
I talked to others and people like that know me
since you know high school, college days, Everybody's like, oh no,
you were always, you know, dressed up or you always
were like very intentional about what you were wearing. And
I think it was just in me, like my parents
were that way. My dad ironically like he played college
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football and that he had the nickname of like school
boyd Q because everybody would come to his room prior
to going out or going to events and being like,
what should I wear like with this one or that one?
And my dad would tell me that all the time.
So I think I literally just had made the correlation.
The other day, I was like, oh, well, I guess
I am technically doing exactly what my dad was doing,
but I scaled it. And so it's just always kind
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of been like a family thing. And I initially had
interest in interior design, which I think I still have
an interest in it. But when I got to East
then Kentucky, they had just closed the program because it
wasn't enough students enrolled, and so I started off like undeclared,
and I tested the warders and a few things that,
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like I thought I might go into sports medicine because
I was always injured.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So I was like, oh, I belong over there.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
And then I was like, oh, what about broadcast Like,
so I took like a broadcast class.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I was very just like trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
And I took a career test, like for during one
of our summer sessions, I was in this career inspiration
class and they all of my results came back through
like fashion fashion fashion, right, So I you know, I
took a look at the major it's a curriculum, and
I joined and I learned so much and it just
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felt like a natural fit. And I knew like the
way that I wanted to enter the world or stay
in that fashion space would be to incorporate both of
my loves.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And I would have never caught it would come to this.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
And that's what the reason why I also got my
master's in sports admin illoid I'm going to know like
the business side of sports and I'm going to combine
and did not know exactly what that would look like,
but you know, through trial and error and like word
of mouth, I think I've kind of found my niche.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, and it's such a perfect time for it. It
is the intersection of the two and clearly you have
an eye for it, and like that's the job. And
it's wild to me how you can just see people everyday,
people that you're like, how did they put those things together?
And it works and you know, yeah, I want to talk.
You just mentioned when you are working with athletes, you're
loaning out pieces and then sending them back to designers.
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That's obviously really necessary if they're wearing really high end stuff,
and it's especially necessary for a league like the w
where they're fighting for better salaries and more pay but
where it's not easy to have new clothes for every
single tunnel fit or to be rocking whatever the brand new,
hottest thing is. So we're hoping this changes with the
upcoming CBA negotiations. Even if they start making more cash,
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high fashion is pricey. So how do you find the
balance between wanting to borrow those pieces from design versus
doing some high low or figuring out how you can
make them find looks that work for them on a budget.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think it's just it's athlete by athlete.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
You know, and I never want people to have the
perception that style just to have style, like it has
to break your pockets. Yes, there is some intentionality behind things.
There is some investment that has to be done to
really build your brand, depending on where you want to
go with it and what your goal is and how
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you want to portray yourself to the world. But I
do think that there's a happy medium that you have
to find that still keeps it attainable. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I'm myself have always.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Been someone that like creates a look on a budget
for my own self, and like that's how I grew up,
like watching my parents go do high low and you know,
make the best out of what you can because I
think at the end of the day, personal style is
not about exactly what's on your body, but what makes
you feel good while it's on your body and how
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you make it your own. So yeah, it's a balance.
It is a balance. There are some times where when
you have a goal, you have to have the conversations
of like, Okay, if this is the level that we
want to get to, this is what it takes to
get to that level.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
But at the same.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Time, there's always ways and it just depends on how
serious you are about it.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
And you know, each person is different, each individual is different.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I mean, if I learned anything from America's Next Top Model,
you can just rock a white tank top in genes
if you do it right. That's what Tyra always told them,
take it, make it simple. Of course they all were,
you know, attempting to be supermodels, so that kind of
helps kind of look anything, how do you balance your
critical eye and your knowledge about what looks good and
what's fashionable with your client requests and how often do
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you butt heads a little bit because they're like, this
is what I like, this is what I want, and
you're like, that's not it.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
I mean, I think that's just like human connection, right,
We're always not going to agree on everything. But I
think the difference between dilling athletes versus an entertainer or
someone in a different space is the clothes is an
accessory to the main thing, Right. It's not like they're
not in this outfit for the entire night. This is
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a moment and they're coming to work. So I think
I try to keep that mentality too, that at the
end of the day, yes, this is what I want,
this is the vision that I have, but I also.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Need you to feel confident and comfortable.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
So there does have to be some compromise because who
wants to go to work and not feel good about yourself?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Right, especially as.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Something as serious as like you know, a major game,
like you want to go in feeling good. It goes
back to my saying that I said, all the time,
you know, Deon Sanders shout out, my dad's shout out,
like you.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Look good, you feel good, you play good.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
And you can always tell when somebody's not completely comfortable
and something that they're wearing, and it goes back to
like what you said. It can be something simple, but
if you're confident and like aura is exuding through it,
like people are like, oh wow, that looks different, wouldn't
have respected to wear that. So I do think that
there has to be some compromise, right And at the
end of the day, if I have a vision and
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you just genuinely I can tell, like the energy is
not matching, you're not feeling good. I love to ask
the question of like what what don't you like? What
would you change? And like how can we still get
this look off? And you know, execute the vision make
it look good? But still keep you comfortable and it's
okay to push. There's there's times where I will push,
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but I think there's also times like it's like, okay,
if I'm not going to push on this one, but
if I don't push on this one, then I got
to push you on.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
This I get next. Get Yeah, you remember, do you
remember a time when someone wasn't sure about a look
and then you pushed and then they got really praised
for it and they came back and they were like, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
You right.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No, I will say I'm not going to call the
player out, but I've had.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Call them out.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
I'll say I've had a player in the past where
it's like, you know, we're kind of unsure before the game,
and like we're sending pictures to each other, like she's
sending the picture and I'm like, well, you know what
I'm I'm the queen of like let's hop on the
FaceTime real quick and then I'll show like a different
way to where it, just like with something I have
if I can't be right there with them and then
the tunnel pics dropped and I remember them sending me
(26:17):
the pictures being like everybody loves it. And I was like,
I know, I know they did. I know, you just
gotta trust it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
So, yeah, you look great. I ain't gonna say I
told you so, but I told you you looked great.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay. What about a time you push for something and
you were like, all right, you were right, that didn't work.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
I can't think of no messes you said it I did.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Okay, Okay, I can't think of everyone. I will say
I've had times g I'm like, ooh, I would have
I would have chowed a different shoot, Like when you
see it out in the world, You're like, I would
have I would have made a different decision.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
But I don't think.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
I think a part of me never is like just
unsatisfied with a look. It might be revisions that I
want made.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
But what's your favorite Asia Wilson look that you styled
for her.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I think the one that came to mind immediately was
this green all green Dan.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I was just gonna say, my brain just goes green.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Melita Baumeister was the designer, and I think that one
was my favorite because it was the first game post
her like era of doing the white tea Grace West
because she wanted to get back in her rhythm and
so like the first pop out and it was actually
like one of the first games she sat out for
like rest purposes or and like right before the playoffs,
(27:41):
so it was kind of like a pop out and
she got to keep it on the whole game.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, and the banks and straight across and the super
straight hair, and.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It was something that came together, like it was it
was in the vaults, but it came together the day
before because we were on set and I was like, Oh,
I have it with me.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Let's just try it on. Let's try it on.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Like we knew we wanted to wear, but we wanted
to try it on again. And so we tried it
on and we were like, oh, this is it, and
her stylists, her hair solace was there and her makeup
artist was there, and we just like had like a
communative meeting. Yeah, it looked so good and we came
together with that, and so I think that's why it's
one of my favorites of hers for sure.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And the green just popped on her.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, look what about your lady, sid Colson, one of
your favorite looks you've styled for her.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I kind of want to go to the last game
that she played the custom Dahlia suiting.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It was her first custom.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We had the conversation before the season started about her
wanting to try to be in like more tailored looks,
more suiting. So having that experience of actually being able
to get her a customed suit and shout out to Dahlia.
They're doing amazing things at the w Like I think
Andrea Carter Rakia Jackson had on one of their suits recently.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Is this the one with the solver pants?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
No, this is the one that it's like burnt orange.
And it was like the day it was like the
day after her birthday. She just wore August seventh. I
believe she had like the pins on it.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It was a and she.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Had it was a three teeth so it had a
vest yeah yeah, and it was just it just fit
her so perfectly, and we had the gold boot to
pop and the hair was done.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
It just yeah, it was off the glasses that.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Were the orange.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, I think that one.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
And then it was kind of it just felt symbolic
because it was the glass game that she played of
this season, unfortunately, but it just felt like we had
accomplished our goal, Like this is where you wanted to
get to and it was almost like an ushering into
a new era of where she culminated there.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, I hate when I see things that are custom
because I'm like, oh, that's how clothes can look when
they fit you right. That costs money and time and
I need to put something more.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
But you'll be surprised.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I tell people all the time there's local tailors in
your city that you know, you can get your clothes
that waists brought in for not too much. You know,
it's not a full custom looks, but just that little
de tell fit you right him in that pant like,
and it's not expensive if you find the right person,
and you know, it's got to give yourself a little time,
(30:09):
you know. If you want to wear something coming up,
go try it. Like once you experience it, you never
look at your clothes the same.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, yeah, you never look at your clothes the same.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Again, is there a dream w client that you haven't
worked with that you'd like.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
To I feel like I've been fortunate enough to hit my.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
I guess my goals.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I remember some years ago I wrote down like I
would love to start age Wilson, and you know, we
had our time working together Cheryl's soops. I wore twenty
two in college and I've always admired her, loved her.
We connected before when I was working in the NBA.
She came to a Hawks game and like, I shot
my shot and introduced myself to her. I wasn't styling
at the time, but I had like a little side
(30:55):
thing where I made custom jackets, and I was like, Cheryl,
I love you, would.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Love to make you custom jackets. So we were conne
did then.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
So then to turn around as a stylist and having
my own business and to be able to work with
her was like a dream come true. I've also had
some opportunity to work with another legend recent more recently,
and I just I'm just grateful.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Was the whad growing up?
Speaker 3 (31:17):
I don't know if I could say, yeah, it's an
upcoming project, it's project, but it is a legend for another.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Com Okay, okay, So that that was like a flat.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
We've got some ideas, but we'll just let it sit there.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Yeah, let us see.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, So on Good Game, we celebrate the end of
every year with the slices. Now we've only had one year,
so we've only done it once, but we look forward
to the second annual slices at the end of this year.
One of the awards that we handed out last year
was the Serena Williams Catsuit Award for best fit on
or off the court, and last year we nominated white
(31:54):
T shirt. Asia was alex Yes, Misha was Courtney Williams
all black leather shaft fit from September, and mine was
Kelsey Plum's leather assassin style Alexander Wang black leather like
mini vest with the molded cups and the baggy low
rise trousers. She had those cat eye glasses. Yes, we
know there are a few more months left this year,
(32:16):
but do you have a couple of nominees that come
to mind instantly for this season of best Serena Williams
cats a theward for best for Donna off the court.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
You know, I'm gonna be a little biased.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I'm going to nominate Sid but if we're talking about
somebody that is still on the court and playing, I
think I'm going to lean towards Skyler Diggins's. I think
she's consistent in her style is Sydney Page. They just
do such a great job and I think as a
fashion person in the brands that they're wearing, and the consistency
(32:48):
of her low season and her looks in the range, Like,
if I had to be unbiased, that's that's that would
be mine.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Well done, you well done? You shouting out to someone else?
Are you just like the mill? That was it?
Speaker 3 (33:01):
You just look marketing a moment too. I was when
I saw it, I was unaware of like the partnership,
and I said, oh, this is the partnership.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
I know it, I know it, and then.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I hope, I hope it is just wearing that.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
But I just love I love intentional style, and I
love storyteller. I love stepping outside of the box and
doing something different and like where you see it.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
But I think the look that is coming to.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
My mind automatically is the Tom Brown recently love the tie, Yeah,
I loved I loved Tom Brown, And so I think
that was.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
The people who pull it off, like just especially more
mask leaning. It just like lends itself in this really sophisticated,
beautiful way to women who dress more masks. Yeah, you
know who's been crushing it lately?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Who?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I think it's been a real quick turnaround. I think
if she approaches being more of an adult and entering
the pros.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
I think it's easy, fun and you know, she she's
been getting stopped by this. She just got to stoped
by the same style as oh during New York Fashion
Week Sydney.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh okay, I as schylar chickens.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, I remember, I'm waiting to She looks really good.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, like matching outfit with the flower yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
The kids super Yeah, with the nails.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, she looks really good. And I love seeing someone
get that glow up when they kind of go from
like sporty.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Kids saying like okay and yeah she's I'm excited to
see them, Like yeah, how that how that works?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Comes together? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Do you now have to start recruiting like coaches do?
I think you would kind of have to go into
the college ranks, start looking around and be like, let
me get my claws into that one before they don't
row so someone else doesn't steal her.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Sometimes I like, I think I'm more so like a
universe and like a manifesto in that way of.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Like they will come be someone.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Some people don't agree with it. Some people are like, girl,
you gotta put yourself out there. But I'm like, I
feel it out.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yeah, I watch you sense it out every day as
a walking billboard, and they know where to.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Come, You know where you are.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
There any trends or styles that you've leaned into at
the time, and now you're like, I despise that. I
know it was in style at the time, but I hate.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
It right now. I can't stand the skinny jean really, yeah,
I just can't.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
And I think it might be a personal thing too,
just like as as my own body changes.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
It just doesn't work. It didn't work. And I used
to love a skinny. We love a skinny, right.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
He was a tall girl because it was easy to
do the to do a cuff and it does.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
It was stylish for it to look cropped. Yes, like
back in the day when we were supposed to be
wearing the boot cut that dragged on the floor, we
couldn't find You.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Couldn't do that.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And it looks crazy because now you have like this
flare randomly above your ankle.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Yes, well you baggy leg, because baggy leg you need
to wear tight on top. But I got a big
old rack of lamb and I don't have a tight
set of abs, so I look stupid. You can't go baggy,
baggy with.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Big it's a proportion.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah, so I'm kind of like I'm hanging on to
a little bit of skinny or at least straight leg
because I can't do the big white leg.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Well, I think this is what I think.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
The way I go about it is like if I
go back on the bottom and I do prefer to
go baggy around because I'm the same like I don't
like a type sitting top for that breathing. Yeah, I
will play with like the the proportions in the shape
of the outfit. So then I'll throw like something over
my shoulders so that it doesn't feel so like just
straight up and down because everything's boxing the shoulders kind of.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
It kind of gives you a little triangle up top.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
And then like a bringing and then another triangle you
know what I mean, to kind of.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Take a I mean, I need a shape on a
dress otherwise I just look.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Like I just laugh.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Yes, And it just seemed like since that ball stopped bouncing,
they just want.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
To keep They say, we're here. I'm like, all right, well,
I guess I have to adjust.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
You're not going anywhere any trends or styles that are
just coming into fashion. Now that we should be keeping
an eye on that. You're like, ooh, that's just getting going.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Just getting going.
Speaker 3 (36:58):
I think we're seeing customization in back so much like
with the charms and the pins, the customized in your bag,
like we you know you've seen Page wearing the customized
coach bag so much. And I think that big bag
look like from the two thousands, Like I saw somebody say,
like I missed when we just wear big bags everywhere,
(37:18):
Like I can just put everything in it and.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
I was good for the day. I never have to
go back home.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Or miss anything. And so I like that that's coming back.
And you know already with the athletes, you'll see them
walk in with the duffle on the men's and women's side,
no matter the sport.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
But I love not been in we went to those
damn Lizzo bags that can't even fit like a little
phone in there.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
But it's like it's just like remember, yeah, it's like this.
I love that.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Like the concept, it wasn't very helpful.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
So I do like that the big bag, but also
the customization of everything, the patches, the pins, the charms.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Are the tiny glasses going to be the thing now
because I look like a dumb ass in.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Those I'm not good with the depends it depends on
who the person is.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Do you have the face for it? Go for it.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
We're all not going to be forced into that. No, okay,
thank god.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Don't do it if you don't feel it, I look
like Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Last question for you, a nearly impossible question. We play
a little game called good good or Goodest. It's similar
to bench start cut, but you don't have to cut anything.
It's just something's good, something's good, or and something is
good est.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Zendaea's closet, Beyonce's closet, Rihanna's closet.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
On My Big Three.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Okay, so good, I go Beyonce, it's good. Still still
got love Gooder gooder d.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Rihanna's your top one.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Marihanna, we have a thing. Okay, she doesn't know it yet,
but we do. I have She does not know. Oh,
but I'm getting closer.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Like you know, I'm a savage expenseee ambassador, so I
gotta Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
I have a lot of people that I have things
with that don't know it either.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
They don't know it yet.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
I'm working, Yes, we're working on it.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, we're working on, but I have to give it
to I think her because her style is so her
personal style is more similar to mine, like she's going
to pull off some men's where she's going to pull
off a sneaker.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
She she can do it all.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
And like Zendaya is like my dream closet once I
have money, Yes, I will manifest that shit manifesto, but
I think off top like as I am who I
am today, Rihanna's closet resonates a little bit more with me.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Well, we love chatting with you. We love watching your
work and seeing your work, especially on your lady said
who We are obsessed with here. She's one of our favors.
So thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Thank you for having me. It's a good time.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
We got to take another break. When we come back,
get out the pink hair dye. It's cover shoot time.
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