Kate Middleton has been all over London supporting her country’s athletes at the Olympics, but earlier this week she broke ranks with Team GB and, in a moment of pure SEO gold, stopped off to meet the ladies of the Team USA gymnastics team. Apparently, it was a total mutual style love fest.
Oscar de la Renta is switching it up in his latest ad campaign – after featuring Karlie Kloss for four consecutive seasons, Candice Swanepoel and Katryn Kruger take center stage this fall. {WWD} The September Issue? That’s so 2009. The editors at W are unveiling their very own behind-the-scenes docu web series, which takes you Read more →
The Olympics start this Friday, and one of the best parts of any Olympics (besides ogling the male divers–admit that you do this) is getting to know the athletes and learning their stories as they progress through the games. We already met the women’s gymnastics team (and their makeup), now it’s on to all the Read more →
The Olympics Opening Ceremony is mere weeks away, and we finally got a glimpse of how our US athletes will look when they take that lap around the Olympic stadium. We already saw the slick Nike kits for the team’s track and field athletes, and today the team unveiled the formal parade outfits. Ralph Lauren, Read more →
The Olympics don’t officially start for a few weeks, but this weekend gymnasts competed in the US Olympics Trials, hoping to score a spot on Team USA. It was a mesmerizing few nights of theater (like poor Nastia Liukin’s face plant–awful). But after all the drama, we have five new Olympians (and three alternates) who Read more →
On June 14 in the West Village, despite the fact the entire neighborhood was on lockdown due to Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour’s Obama fundraiser nearby, Nike unveiled their new track and field uniforms for Team USA with the help of some marquis names of their own: Olympic legends Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner Kersee and Michael Johnson (he of the golden shoes).
The new uniforms are red, a departure from the traditional blue, a color that says power, according to Kersee. “Whatever lane we’re in we’re going to pop, we’re going to power off those blocks and hey, here we come team USA,” she said. Lewis added that the color will pop on TV, especially in high definition.
There are lots of new changes to the uniform in addition to the shift to red.
