The Dream Team! Every Athlete Who Attended Fashion Month

Noah Lyles, Jordan Chiles, Sunni Lee… the list of star athletes spotted at the spring 2025 shows goes on and on. Fashion Month, often referred to as the “Fashion Olympics,” is truly embracing its moniker—in a literal sense. The month-long run of shows kicked off in New York with your favorite sports stars in attendance as designers unveiled their new collections, setting a tone for the weeks to follow.

Olympians Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Gabby Thomas, and Noah Lyles all attended New York Fashion Week for the first time. Lee was seen front row at prominent shows including Brandon Maxwell, Off-White, and Tommy Hilfiger, while Chiles made her runway debut, bringing the Kim Shui Spring 2025 ready-to-wear show to a close in a floral, leotard-inspired look. “I am so excited but nervous at the same time,” she told Vogue ahead of the show. Meanwhile, all eyes were on Gabby Thomas at Carolina Herrera and Tommy Hilfiger, where the track darling sat front row.

Jordan Chiles

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Noah Lyles

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This season, Willy Chavarría presented his spring 2025 collection as well as a new Adidas collaboration of “ready-to-wear and sneakers inspired by the ‘Jabbar’ style, created for Kareem Abdul Jabbar in 1978—the first sneaker ever created with an athlete—which is being re-released next year,” reported Vogue’s Senior Fashion News Editor Laia Garcia-Furtado. And the collab wasn’t the only surprise: attendees watched, stunned, as 100M gold medalist Noah Lyles closed the show. The track star wore a shirtless look by the designer (highlighting more than Chavarria’s athletic wear). “I’m not going to lie, I was a little tentative [about] the outfit, but it’s a good thing I workout all year,” he told Vogue backstage. “It’s a lot easier [to prepare for a runway show vs. a track meet]. Instead of running fast, I only have to walk fast, which I can definitely do.”

The starry show also saw Portland Trail Blazer Jerami Grant on the runway, and NBA star Jordan Clarkson front row. A few miles away from the festivities, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson arrived to Giants Stadium wearing a look from Ib Kamara’s spring 2025 Off-White collection—the same afternoon the collection debuted on a New York Fashion Week runway. The worlds of fashion and sports have never been closer.