Naomi Osaka came here and served us.
The 28-year-old four-time Grand Slam champion made a glittering entrance to the French Open 2026 this week wearing a series of custom walk-on looks inspired by haute couture over a gold sequined Nike tennis dress.
“I say I don’t talk much, so I can talk over my clothes,” Osaka told reporters in Paris. “That means you can be as assertive as you want with colors, patterns, and fabrics.”
The pregame look was created by Swiss designer Kevin Germania, who upcycled Nike clothing and called the collaboration “cool” on Instagram.
May 26th
Osaka entered Suzanne-Lenglencourt for her first-round match against Germany’s Laura Siegemund wearing a black vest with corset-like lace-ups on the back and a floor-length pleated tulle skirt. Underneath was a golden dress that soaked up the Parisian sunshine and momentarily worried the tennis star.
“I was actually a little worried because when the sun hits the dress, it reflects a lot,” she said. “So I was a little scared that the referee would kick me off the court, so I had two extra regular Nike dresses with me.”
No backup was needed. Osaka won the match and gave a haunting explanation about the inspiration for her dress afterward.
“You know how the Eiffel Tower sparkles at night? I think it’s a little bit like that,” she said, adding that the outfit was “inspired by France and haute couture, which I really like.”
World number one Aryna Sabalenka co-signed this look while watching live on TNT Sports. “I love how she expresses herself. She’s confident. That’s the beauty of the fashion world,” she said.
Her opponent was not very impressed. “I came here to play tennis, not to do a fashion show,” Siegmund said.
May 28th
Osaka raised the stakes for her second-round match against Croatia’s Donna Vekic at Court Simonne Mathieu, entering wearing a gold sequined bomber jacket with a billowing ivory gathered train at the back. French seamstress Diana Martinez posted the look on her Instagram Story, calling it the “most incredibly surreal” project she’s ever worked on.
Osaka removed the train (snapping it to her jacket) and handed both pieces to the ball kids before warming up, revealing the matching gold dress underneath.
“I like to make people wary, and I think that’s really fun,” she said in an on-court interview, but declined to say whether she was planning a new entry suit for each round.
With this victory, Osaka advanced to the third round of the French Open for the first time since 2019. Next up, she will face 17th seed Iva Jovic.
The tennis star’s headline-grabbing fashions continue this year in her wardrobe at Roland Garros in Osaka. At the Australian Open in January, she appeared at Rod Laver Arena wearing a jellyfish-inspired Robert Wang look, complete with a veiled wide-brimmed hat and a white parasol.
“I know there are kids and people who look like me who feel the same way about how I dress,” Osaka said in Paris.
