NBA’s king of fashion Russell Westbrook talks style

HOUSTON (AP) — When you’re Russell Westbrook, the undisputed king of NBA fashion, you don’t spend the offseason like a typical player.

The five-time All-Star passes his time designing clothes, perched on the front row for shows during New York Fashion Week or talking style and tennis with Vogue magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

”Sitting down and talking to Anna is very casual,” Westbrook said. ”I think it’s important … when you get an opportunity to learn something different about somebody. Like I’m sitting down talking to Anna, she loves tennis which is something I didn’t know about her. And to be able to sit down and talk to her about different things – she didn’t know much about me in the basketball space so she had an opportunity to be able to talk about that.

”And as for fashion, I may ask her questions and throw different things at her that she may know about the fashion space,” Westbrook said.

As the Oklahoma City Thunder star prepared to launch a new capsule collection called True Religion X Russell Westbrook, which will be available exclusively on the True Religion app Sunday and online and in stores on Oct. 6, he took time to talk fashion with The Associated Press.

The 17-piece collection is very much a reflection of his style. It features skinny jeans, T-shirts and thermals meant for layering, with the rips and distressing that he has long incorporated into his wardrobe. The collection also has several pieces that include the ”Why Not?” motto that is important to him, not just in …

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