Players #1

A sporty new title from the world of CR—as in Carine Roitfeld, former editor of French Vogue—marrying high fashion and sport—each issue will focus on one sport. With son Vladimir at the helm as editor-in-chief, this first issue of Players is guest edited by NBA legend Dwayne Wade, a testament to the the ever-interlocking worlds of style and basketball: 

‘Athletes like Wade are style icons, entrepreneurs, activists and muses the whole world looks up to. And fashion? It’s no longer confined to the runway. It’s in the tunnels, the locker rooms, the courts and the and the streets.’

All of which makes for a highly visual, fashion-meets-basketball bible, spotlighting the figures at the intersection of the two: Wade himself; photographer Walter Iooss Jr. (with plenty of his iconic images); Georgio Armani and his beloved Olimpia Milano; WNBA stars Sabrian Ioenscu, Breanna Stewart and Cameron Brink; Jordan Clarkson and more. 

Plus, the story behind a Nike-clad Kate Moss on a 2004 cover of Vogue Paris, NBA’s fashion evolution from coaches to tunnels, and shooting hoops by the Giza pyramids.