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Feb 16, 2018 · Quebec-based fashion designer Mathieu Caron is the artist behind this skating couture moment and many other show-stopping designs. Caron knows just how effective a costume can be in concert...
Jan 31, 2018 · The 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang are just a week away, which means that those bedazzled and bejeweled spandex confectioneries known as ice skating costumes are right around the corner.
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- Nancy Kerrigan
- Michelle Kwan
- Evan Lysacek
Wang had been designing bridal for several years when she was approached by Nancy Kerrigan’s coach, with whom she’d skated, to make the figure skater’s costumes. “At first I really didn’t want to do it … She said, ‘I want you to do Nancy’s dresses for the Olympics’ and I said, ‘What are you talking about?'” the designer told us. Ultimately, she dec...
Wang calls Michelle Kwan, whom she costumed for the 1998 and 2002 Olympics, “an actress on the ice,” with an athleticism that meant her outfits “had to give her a feeling of freedom. She needed to feel she was almost in a bathing suit.” Kwan’s other requests? “She did not want anything near her neck. She had to feel that her neck was free. And she ...
After all of the other costumes Wang had created, there was only one moment when she wanted to quit: the 2010 Olympics, which was also her first time dressing a male figure skater. “With Evan [Lysacek], I tried to back out in July. I woke up one night with hot flashes and a rash. The technology of designing for him worried me,” she said. The proces...
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Feb 15, 2022 · But when Vera Wang was asked by Nancy Kerrigan’s coach, with whom she had skated, to design the costumes for the Olympic Games in Albertville, she agreed – not an easy task, she admitted in an interview with People magazine in 2018: “It’s not for the faint of heart. If one strap were to break, or if the beading on the sleeve gets caught ...
Feb 14, 2018 · To answer these questions and more, the Cut consulted with famed skating designers Jan Longmire and Lisa McKinnon. Here are a few things we learned. A figure-skating costume is often inspired by the routines.
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Feb 8, 2018 · Marc Bain. Published February 8, 2018. In frigid, mountainous Pyeongchang, South Korea, most of the athletes in the 2018 winter Olympics will be wearing warm (or even self-heating) uniforms....
Feb 8, 2018 · According to People, for more than 20 years Vera Wang — yes, the Vera Wang behind some of the most stunning red carpet and wedding gowns you'll ever see — has designed many of the figure...
