court couture...

i picked up the october issue of vogue today, because of the michelle williams cover story and layout. love her style, top to toe. and i love her new 'do.

i was happy to also find a photo spread featuring a favorite tennis player of mine, monfils, photographed by none other than arthur elgort.



i actually don't love this idea--why is monfils wearing tennis garb, when she's in couture? he'd look great in slim-cut frenchy 3-piece. but he photographs nicely.

i like anna wintour about as much as i like roger federer, but i will say that her friendship with federer does have its benefits. the monfils spread represents, i believe, the 4th feature/spread in 5 months to include a top tennis player. starting with rafa in june (photographed by bruce weber)...

a classic bruce weber photo...

this is a little too gatsby for my taste

this too, but i was happy to see both...

and then in august, ana ivanovic! (bonus: article quotes mfw, and his is the big pull quote in the print edition.)

photographed by norman jean roy

and then federer in the hyped september issue, and monfils this month.

tsonga and wozniacki are bound to make it in there soon. here's hoping, anyway.

extra, extra: rafa behind the scenes video