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How Fashion Can Nail the Tricky Details of Sports Partnerships

As fashion’s interest in sports grows, brands are getting a crash course in the complicated world of sports sponsorships.
Fashion is increasingly interested in working with athletes.
Fashion is increasingly interested in working with athletes. (BoF Studio)

In May, Gucci released a campaign with the 22-year-old Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner featuring a Gucci-logoed bag on his shoulder, waving to an imagined audience. Four words splayed across the photograph, which was a nod to him becoming the first competitor to carry a non-white bag onto the court at Wimbledon last year: “Gucci is a feeling.”

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Joan Kennedy
Joan Kennedy

Joan Kennedy is Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in New York and covers beauty and marketing.

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