New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- From tunnel walk to prime time: how Angel Reese is turning a VS runway slot and a Juicy capsule into the next play for women's sports

New York - In a year when women's basketball has set ratings records and rewritten the playbook for athlete branding, Angel Reese is attempting a crossover that pushes even those boundaries: from the paint to the catwalk, from the WNBA's Chicago Sky to the runway of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and-on retail racks-into her own co-designed line with Juicy Couture. The 23-year-old forward is positioning herself not merely as a star who endorses fashion, but as a figure who makes it, a storyline that rhymes with the staging instincts we tracked in Milan's farewell.

On Oct. 15, Ree...