Olympic Games every four years in a fashion show
Admission to the Australian team dress just happens to coincide with the 07 winter’s Prada
Australian Aboriginal patterns, French white newspaper CHILDREN CAP, the United States, “Gatsby-style” navy blue jacket, the traditional Chinese color … … the Olympic Games is perhaps the world’s largest fashion show, and they deserve an eye. But also because it paid attention to their body is no longer “natural” body.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games the most relaxed elegance, and secretly show the close relationship between sports and fashion, is Australia’s admission dress. Blue and white dominated the tone of the Sport, from dark blue slippers upward gradient, to silver-white baseball cap for the end of the texture gradient and space-induced fluorescence effect, coincided with the autumn and winter 2007 Milan Fashion Week in the Prada did not do the together. Of course, a wide belt this spring, is also popular in France saw the female athletes. If only the opening ceremony as a fashion show at the simple conclusion can be drawn, like “The New York Times” fashion commentator of the tasting: “Canada’s team of young people wearing short-sleeved jacket of coarse , carrying a satchel stuffed, like a group of salesmen “;” The Russian team’s shirt so that they like to spend a gorgeous cowboy team, but the stand also lost focus “;” African countries, athletes are the dyeing and color master ” ; “in Latin America were more adept at the use of hats in this element” … … but when the model is to demonstrate the interpretation of clothing the beauty of the body of athletes, their clothes more than just colors and styles that simple.
Francois Sura Day is the University of Paris VIII, and the National Institute of art history professor at the opening ceremony the day before the French Cultural Center, he conducted a seminar entitled “campaign of physical and media-oriented body” speech. The subject of this magical by the French speaking out, even more abstruse. Says, we can learn from economic, political, and moral point of view to analyze the Olympics, but very little intelligence from the intellectual level of discussion of the Olympic Games. We are always thinking of sport passive, always staring blankly at the television screen, unlike in the Rembrandt painting, as to think hard before. Professor result of thinking: from ancient Greece as a starting player was between between God and mortals “heroes” in their efforts to reach the limit, trying to break through the body’s tragic, but also faces competition with others, but when the third one body – the audience appeared, the body movement will no longer be a pure “natural” body. Athletes who haunted keen eye, they become superior “superior body”, you can reap the benefits of “physical gold” and as if an everlasting “image of the body”, which attached to the body of the imagination, it is by the the media and the fashion brand made waves.
Lucy Liu featuring the U.S. version of “Harper’s Bazaar” 8 issue of the Olympic Games large
Occasionally can be seen today, fashion and the body to completely fragmented situation. The U.S. version of “Harper’s Bazaar” 8 monthly with a group of “Olympic large” ethnic Chinese actress Lucy Liu as a model, she was wearing a Dior dress standing custom boxing ring, waving Chanel 2.55 bag as a discus, foot Giuseppe Zanotti shoes play balance beam, to snatch position picked up two rivet-studded Gucci bag … … the balance of sports and fashion in the Lucy Liu, who distorted the body have been totally aggressive big cover up. This set of very large retro, as if it is the 20th century, 80 years Foucault object of criticism: “a person’s own body control and self-consciousness, can only be put into effect the operation of the power of the body to get: gymnastics, sports, muscle exercise nudist … … take off your clothes bar, to slender, good-looking, bronze tan is best! ”
England V & A Museum and the Olympic Games opened at the same of the “Sport vs Fashion” Exhibition
More fashion workers recognize that merely talking about the expense of clothing the body is not enough for scratching, and just like in the museum to watch the show clothes when the discomfort, the kind of gray-scarred hanging quiet and silent, to rigid posture create a kind of mausoleum effect, half-sly metaphor showing some depressing things, such as the body languish abhorrent, life is fear of passing.
England V & A museum is trying to eliminate the sense of panic, with the opening of the Olympic Games period “Sport vs Fashion” exhibition, specifically settings “link in the sense of smell,” the movement to collect human sweat, in a special venue in the emission of odor into the background in order to achieve between the clothing and watching “health, gender, age, emotional and even offensive,” exchanges. The exhibition is more sporadic fragments pierce the fashion and sports to each other separated by a short history of integration into each other. Some originated in the 20th century, 20 years of Chanel, the woman learned from “that side of the sea” – England’s inspiration, introduced tweed (unique British-style men’s cloth), sailor collar blouses, of pattern sweaters, berets and navy blue and white mix, this time sports and casual fashion, probably for the woman’s personal hobby, she announced: “I invented the Women’s Sportswear, not because of movement in Ms. popular, but because I love sports. “60 years after the 20th century, the inventor of miniskirt Andre suspected to promote the movement could be Regis-style clothing and” Frankenstein shoes, “the emergence of this species. The heels of the 20th century, late 80’s to the 90’s fitness craze with the invention of Lycra, so sports shoes and sports bra to become a popular single product, or even be seen as a sign of women’s emancipation. In 1996, the number of women to buy sports shoes for the first time more than men, 14.85 million pairs of more than 11.67 million pairs. Today, a blend of fashion and sports season is no longer a whim, in the fashion element to add a little bit of movement, but to really enter the field of professional sports, so there Yohji Yamamoto and Stella McCartney and Adidas Ramesh co-operation, Alexander Ma Kuien with transformation Puma, Paul Smith, Reebok logo will be simplified, Rei Kawakubo for Speedo swimsuit painted fluorescent light strips … …