Angel Reese is making history: the Chicago Sky forward recently announced that she'll be walking in the 2025 Victoria's Secret fashion show, becoming the first professional athlete to grace the VS stage. For Black women in sports, this means everything. "I grew up with a long list of Black women athletes as my personal style icons. I marveled over Flo Jo's intricately embellished nails and Venus and Serena Williams's signature braid beads — both treasured beauty staples that were ubiquitous in our community. But it took decades for the rest of the style industry to catch on, and it was rare to see those athletes celebrated or credited as trendsetters on the world stage," writes Popsugar senior style director Jessica Andrews. "Now to have Victoria's Secret — a brand historically associated with desirability and beauty — cast a Black woman athlete is powerful and quite frankly overdue." |
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