Speaking about the inspiration behind the latest creation, Osaka joked with press to “get ready for my long spiel.”
As Osaka recounted, Naomi Campbell’s infamous 2009 “Harper’s Bazaar” editorial of her running with a cheetah in South Africa, along with being in the California desert for this tournament, was a starting block for an exploration that ultimately dove deeper.
“Based on who I am, my leopard is more like a huntress, like I’m hunting something, there is something I want to go get,” she explained.
“Then we kind of morphed into the story of, like, there is desert, there is dunes, there is a leopard. Crazy, now we’re, like, Mad Max. Then we’re like, okay, huntress, hunting. There is the story of pursuing something, and then we just kind of built the world in there.”
