Serena Williams is being honored as 'fashion icon' at fashion's big awards night

Serena Williams will be honored at Monday’s Council of Fashion Designers of America awards for her career and contributions to American fashion

. Williams, who retired from tennis last year, is the first athlete to win the CFDA's Fashion Icon award. In addition to her groundbreaking tennis career, she is being honored for her work as a designer herself, as an entrepreneur and as a philanthropist. The fashion industry’s equivalent of the Oscars will be held at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan and hosted by Anne Hathaway.

In a statement before the event, designer and current CFDA chairman Thom Browne called Williams “one of the most inspiring people in the world ... representing greatness on the highest level.' She has been, Browne said, “the ultimate example of individuality in everything she does” and “a true fashion icon.” In her own remarks, Williams said that ever since she was a little girl, “I’ve used fashion as an outlet to express myself.

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