Olympics, Fashion and Russian Politics: Sochi Olympics One Week Away!

GLAMOUR: Olympics Fashion

Hollywood Reporter

• Team USA : Ralph Lauren - 2014 Olympics in Sochi
• Team USA : Burton - Olympics in Sochi
• Team Germany : Willy Bogner - 2014 Olympics in Sochi
• Team USA : Ralph Lauren -  2012 Olympics in London
• Team Italy : Giorgio Armani -  2012 Olympics in London
• Team Germany : Adidas -  2012 Olympics in London
• Team U.K. : Stella McCartney - 2012 Olympics in London
• Team Canada : Hudson Bay -  2012 Olympics in London
• Team USA : Roots - 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City
• Team USA : Levi Strauss -  1980 Olympics in Lake Placid
• Team Japan :White Suits - 1960 Olympics in Rome

Interesting Bit: 

BILERICO: Germany's rainbow uniforms--"Officials insist that the rainbow-colored uniforms do not represent any kind of a protest against Russia's draconian anti-LGBT laws, but many people are interpreting them as exactly that."

Bilerico

Germany, Adidas, ShrewdTennis

ECONOMIST: The triumph of Vladimir Putin: IN 2008, soon after winning the competition to stage the 2014 winter Olympics, Vladimir Putin, the country’s president, announced that “at last Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state—a country that others heed and that can stand up for itself.”  

Next weekend sees the opening of Russia’s first Olympiad since the summer games in Moscow in 1980. At the president’s behest, the games are being held at Sochi, an unsuitable subtropical resort, and the government has spent $50 billion—four times the cost of the jamboree in London in 2012—on staging the event. 

Big posters proclaim “Russia—Great, New, Open!” State-owned Sberbank offers the faintly menacing motto, “Today Sochi, tomorrow the world.”