Stylist Courtney Mays, who works with female athletes including WNBA legend Sue Bird, dresses (and celebrates) a range of bodies.
Stylist Courtney Mays is an expert at fit. That comes in handy when assembling looks for thletes including Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty and WNBA legend Sue Bird. She learned the importance of tailoring at home. “Putting a suit together, and the importance of different colors, came from my dad,” she says, adding that she uses menswear pieces to dress her female clients.
Mays got her start in fashion at the store of designer Tracy Reese, who has dressed icons Michelle Obama, among many others. While working there, she also started to help out at the showroom and in PR. She got connected with Rachel Johnson, “the godmother of the convergence of sport and style,” Mays says. She sent in her résumé and was hired. There, she met Calyann Barnett, later Dwyane Wade’s longtime stylist. Mays worked up and eventually styled for Chris Paul and other athletes.
Mays’s interest in sports runs deep. Not only did she play basketball through high school, but her father is former NFL quarterback Dave Mays of the Cleveland Browns. She learned her love of dressing through him and her mother. “Watching my parents get dressed to go on a date night and the attention to detail they paid on how they looked,” she says, recalling how her dad wore double-breasted suits, cuff links, and an onyx pinkie ring.
The green Gabriela Hearst suit celebrated her jersey retirement from the Seattle Storm. Obviously, we wanted to wear green to honor the team. But because it was her day, we said, “Let’s make it neon.” It was important for Sue to wear a suit because it felt classic and timeless, finished and appropriate, for this celebration that was heartfelt, sentimental, and fun, but was also serious and history-making. I think we achieved that.
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