How an NBA star helped UK’s Georgia Amoore make fashion history at WNBA draft
Georgia Amoore’s entourage for the 2025 WNBA draft — during which she was selected sixth overall by the Washington Mystics — was, largely, as expected.
Her parents, Phil and Kelly Amoore, who made the trip from Australia to support their daughter. Her coach and mentor, Kenny Brooks. And Denver Nuggets point guard and fashion headlines-maker Russell Westbrook, who gave the former Kentucky Wildcat and Virginia Tech Hokie a standing ovation as WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced Amoore’s selection by the Mystics.
Amoore and Westbrook, with his fashion label Honor the Gift, collaborated to outfit Amoore for the special occasion. The duo — which, per Vogue, first connected last year via Zoom call — have been working for months to find the right outfit for Amoore’s draft night.
After Amoore decided she wanted to wear a skirt and a cropped blazer, Westbrook and his team got to work.
It marked the first time an athlete has ever styled a look for another athlete’s draft night. Amoore, who called Westbrook the creative director of the outfit, said working with him was a true collaboration.
“He’s been very active in the process,” Amoore said. “And I can’t thank that enough because even the little bits of advice he’s given me along the way, you know, to have a contact like that now, as someone I can try and lean on, or lean into.”
When asked after her selection what it meant to her to have Westbrook be her stylist for the night, Amoore said, “I can’t even find the word, so if you can, help me.”
“Because it’s phenomenal,” Amoore said. “He’s done such a good job. And it didn’t feel like it was just, you know, to put his name on something, right? Like, when we talked about the fit, it was very collaborative. He spent hours with me at the hotel today, fitting it, trying it on.”
The duo have also collaborated on a collection with Honor the Gift, with a portion of the proceeds set to go to nonprofit organization Play Like a Girl!, which strives to “even the playing field” between men and women in traditionally male-dominated fields by creating and executing programs that provide opportunities “by leveraging the skills gained from sport to help propel young women into competitive, male-dominated careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.”
The T-shirt, listed under the Honor The Gift X Georgia Amoore collection, is a heavyweight, 100% cotton shirt that reads “INNER CITY,” Westbrook’s birth year of “1988,” and “HONOR WOMEN,” and is available now in both Kentucky blue and white and black and white.
“While Georgia’s draft outfit is this aspirational, one-of-a-kind look,” Westbrook told Vogue. “The T-shirts are the attainable element of our collaboration,” Westbrook said. “They’re how fans can connect with this moment and carry this message forward.”
Though the collaboration is the first of its kind, Amoore believes it’s just the first of many instances where athletes might work together to style one another.
“It’s amazing and I think it’s the start,” Amoore said. “You’re gonna see this happen more often, and I think it’s just a blessing to be the first one to do it.”
