Serena Williams says her fashion line has to be of the “highest quality” for Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
The 37-year-old tennis star has been friends with the former actress – who was known as Meghan Markle before marrying Prince Harry last year – for several years and the sportswoman claims her standards threshold is for the garments to be “fit for a royal princess” after the royal was spotted in the S by Serena boss blazer back in October during her royal tour of Australia.
Serena has “always loved fashion” and recalled when her mother, Oracene Price, would make clothes from patterns she found in Vogue magazine.
She told the Business of Fashion: “I’ve always loved fashion. I remember when I was a kid, my mom used to make all our outfits. Back then, they had Vogue patterns. I would always see her pinning them and making all our clothes. And she taught us how to sew early on.
So, I used to sew clothes for my dolls out of old socks and I would cut them up and make little outfits out of them.”
The 23-time Grand Slam champ – who studied fashion at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in Florida from 2000 to 2003 – also confessed that her own fashionista training came in handy when she swapped pattern making for her professional tennis career.