L.S.U. may have lost to Iowa in the Elite Eight round of the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament, but even two days afterward their star forward Angel Reese was still making headlines — this time in Vogue.
On Wednesday, Ms. Reese, 21, decided to use the glossy to announce she was forgoing her last year of college to enter the W.N.B.A. draft, taking place later this month. That choice, complete with Ms. Reese posing glamorously for a shoot involving clothes from Valentino, Diesel, Wales Bonner and Christian Louboutin, is simply the latest expression of the blossoming love affair between fashion and sports, an intermingling of industries that will reach new heights this summer with the Paris Olympics.
The basketball player said she had been inspired by Serena Williams, who chose to use Vogue to announce her retirement from tennis. (Ms. Williams got a cover shoot, befitting her status.) Most likely, however, Ms. Reese is modeling — no pun intended — her career on Ms. Williams’s in more ways than just one.
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