Will Sports Upstage Hollywood At The Met?

…But women who watch sports are also having theirs. Almost half of last year’s Super Bowl viewers were women. Wow, women really can do anything, even be advertised to.

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Tyshawn Jones is the latest member of Louis Vuitton’s ballooning roster of athlete ambassadors. The skateboarding sensation joins the likes of Wemby, Carlos Alcaraz, and Jude Bellingham repping the French luxury brand. Watch him jump over three Vuitton travel cases in an outfit that probably cost more than his return ticket to Paris. 

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This year, athletes have been at the epicenter of all the major fashion moments, and the Met Gala will be no different, thanks to the many athletes helping host and chair the event. 

The biggest night on the showbiz calendar had already secured two sporting greats in honorary chair LeBron James and co-chair Lewis Hamilton, set to mix it at the top table with the likes of Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell. 

But in a year when sports has come to dominate the look and feel of fashion to such an unprecedented level, Anna Wintour was never going to stop there. The host committee for the event, announced yesterday, is also peppered with sporting superstardom, featuring Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens, Sha’Carri Richardson, and Angel Reese.   

Considering this year’s emphasis on menswear (for the first time since 2003)—the theme is Superfine: Tailoring Black Style—we expect to see some of the GsOATs (greatest suits of all time, obviously).

Athletes have long since attended the gala—who can forget Russell Westbrook’s Thom Browne skirt or Angel Reese’s shimmering 16Arlington look—but the unprecedented representation in leadership roles this year shows how synonymous style and sports have become these days. 

Sports and fashion is the new normal. And we are here for it. 

Would it be a day that ends in Y if someone wasn’t talking about sports betting? Or Taylor Swift, for that matter?

When Taylor started showing up to Travis Kelce’s games, Americans did what we do best: we put money on it. Her mere interest in football meant 51% more women would become interested as well—enough so to start betting. 

Sites like ESPN have dedicated articles to prop bets with Taylor and Travis themes.  Someone next to you on the train right now is probably putting money on who Taylor will sit next to at the Super Bowl. You’re on a call with a coworker and have no idea they’re putting $100 on Travis having 22 receiving yards in the first quarter. Someday, we’ll do ecological studies on Taylor and sports betting’s hold on our zeitgeist. How do they do it? What makes their pull so natural, so intoxicating? Why do we care so much about whether or not she’ll do a surprise performance with Kendrick?

Obviously, we don’t have the answers to these questions. We just like to ask them. But if Taylor isn’t your thing, there are still a bunch of other fun ways to lose—oops, we mean, bet—money. You’re totally gonna win this time! If you do, we always believed in you.

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