GQ: Serena Williams is the Champion of the Year

No matter how you cut it, Serena Williams had a remarkable year. Jeanne-Marie Laskas visits the G.O.A.T. at her Florida home to hear about the U.S. Open moment heard around the world, along with Serena’s plans for the future, her thoughts on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court appointment, and what it’s like to be a black woman in America in 2018. All that, plus GQ worked up a special surprise cover collaboration with Virgil Abloh—the Off-White designer behind her coolest on-court looks in 2018—featuring his signature quotation marks in his own handwriting.

Some fans felt that in the context of serena williams, a person who has been mocked for her appearance and deliberately misgendered for years… this aint it, Virgil.

Is this a case of the casual observer not being familiar with Virgil Abloh’s style or being “too woke”?