Serena Williams is aware of learn how to ace any crimson carpet.
The tennis champion, 42, took on a brand new gig as host of the 2024 ESPY Awards, happening at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Thursday, July 11. To nobody’s shock, Williams took the function critically and served up maybe one among her finest crimson carpet appears to be like but.
The WYN Magnificence founder arrived on the occasion in a figure-hugging black Giorgio Armani robe with a glowing bustier element. To enhance the glamorous ensemble, Williams’ longtime hairstylist Angela Meadows gave the star a blonde bombshell look match for a film star.
“I wished to present her an outdated Hollywood glam impressed look to set the stage for this momentous night time,” Meadows tells PEOPLE. “The stylish, traditional bombshell waves construct up hype for the unbelievable appears to be like we’ve deliberate all through the remainder of the awards ceremony.”
Williams additionally walked the carpet alongside her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and their six-year-old daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., who goes by Olympia. Alexis wore a traditional black go well with paired with blue nike sneakers, whereas Olympia channeled her mother’s glam look in a silver brief sleeve costume with a flared skirt.
“It’s a household affair,” she captioned a group shot on Instagram.
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Williams has an array of high-fashion appears to be like — with hair adjustments for every — deliberate for the night time. When it got here to designing the hairstyles, Meadows tells PEOPLE solely that the tennis star wished to “be very on the market.”
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“She wished to be blonder. She actually wished to have these cool appears to be like,” the stylist explains. “So my first ideas was, nicely, if we’re going to try this, we’ve to step it up. I’ve to seek out good merchandise.”
Meadows relied closely on Wella Professionals Ultimate Repair Miracle Hair Rescue to maintain Williams’ hair wanting its finest for her many hair adjustments.
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“I’ve to guarantee that the hair is shiny and exquisite and with no frizz,” she says, including that the product works in simply 90 seconds, which is especially useful for fast styling backstage.
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The ceremony, which airs reside on ABC on Thursday, July 11 at 8 p.m. ET, acknowledges expertise in athletic achievement.
WNBA rookie star Caitlin Clark garnered probably the most nominations at this 12 months’s ESPYs. She’s nominated for finest athlete, girls’s sports activities; finest record-breaking efficiency (for being the NCAA’s all-time scoring chief by surpassing Pete Maravich’s file) and finest faculty athlete, girls’s sports activities.
Different standout nominees embody gymnastics champion Simone Biles (nominated nominated for finest comeback athlete), Tremendous Bowl champ Patrick Mahomes (finest athlete, males’s sports activities and finest NFL participant) and tennis standout Coco Gauff, who’s up for finest athlete, girls’s sports activities and finest tennis participant.
The ESPY Awards are airing reside on ABC starting at 8 p.m. ET.
