Naomi Osaka delivered another jaw-dropping fashion statement on day three of the 2026 Wimbledon Championships. The Japanese player, 28, arrived at SW19 in a long ruffled tiered lace maxiskirt paired with a Nike bomber jacket featuring detailed floral embroidery and a large white belt adorned with bows.
Osaka's Signature Style
The former World No.1 detached her eye-catching skirt ahead of her ladies' singles second-round match against Anastasia Gasanova. This follows her day-one appearance in a white kimono-inspired dress that adhered to the All England Club's strict all-white dress code.
Osaka's walk-on outfits have become a phenomenon. At the French Open, she wore a black corset and matching skirt, underneath which she sported a glittering gold piece that she said looked like the “Eiffel Tower at night time when it's bright.” At the Australian Open, she debuted a “jellyfish-inspired” outfit—a blue dress with turquoise ribbons—dedicated to her two-year-old daughter Shai. She noted that “Nike let me design this one.”
Wimbledon's Dress Code
All England Club chief Sally Bolton addressed Osaka's fashion choices, stating, “We're very relaxed, so long as it meets the all-white dress code. I haven't had any conversations with her about what she wears, but as for any of our athletes coming onto court, all they have to do is follow the all-white dress code. We haven't got any concerns that that will be an issue.”
Osaka's longtime creative director, Marty Harper, explained the inspiration behind her Wimbledon looks: “It's one of the few places in sport where ceremony still feels inseparable from competition. We wanted to acknowledge that while creating a dialogue with Japanese ceremonial dress. The starting point was the idea of 'Evolving Ceremony.' The garment is constructed from vintage shiromuku [traditional Japanese bridal garments], kimono and wedding dresses—ceremonial garments originally created to mark important moments in people's lives.”
Harper added, “I wanted the garment to exist as the moment before performance. The walk-on surrounds Naomi in ceremony, while the Nike kit represents the athlete in competition. I thought about them as two chapters within the same story.”
