Was the French Olympic team wearing knit ties?

[babygreenspots]

They went by too fast so I wasn't able to be sure, but the bottom appeared to be square. I noticed there is a rumor that they were Hermes ties.

Did you notice the red lapel button-hole?

Does anyone know who designed it?

 

[sartort]

i noticed it too. i'm pretty sure they were knits, but not because i could see a texture, but because the ends were squared.

by the way, i was pretty much blown away by the theatrics preceding the parade of athletes. hats off to the host nation for putting on a spectacular show.

 

[babygreenspots]

It was fabulous. I'm just kicking myself for not buying a ticket, expense be damned, although it was nice to watch it from a living room while drinking ginger margaritas and vanilla martinis.

All of my searches have not yielded any information on who created those outfits. French designers are clearly not as eager to market themselves as Ralph Lauren is.

 

[dshin]

The opening ceremony was incredible.....Those guys running around the floating globe was amazing.
But the best opening ceremony moment for me has to be the Barcelona games in 92 when the archer shot a flaming arrow probably a good 500 ft into the air to light the olympic flame. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

 

[Joffrey]

I was at a bar when a replay of the opening ceremony was on. It annoyed me but I couldn't change the channel.

 

[Baron]

Originally Posted by dshin

The opening ceremony was incredible.....Those guys running around the floating globe was amazing.
But the best opening ceremony moment for me has to be the Barcelona games in 92 when the archer shot a flaming arrow probably a good 500 ft into the air to light the olympic flame. I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

Muhammad Ali lighting the torch in Atlanta was pretty sweet, too.

 

[meister]

Originally Posted by Baron

Muhammad Ali lighting the torch in Atlanta was pretty sweet, too.

The Beijing opening was as boring as batshit. All cultural Communist cultural boasting. Compare this to one hundred Drizaboned riders at the Sydney Olympics and then the Tap Dogs... and that's entertainment....I notice that there was not one normal looking Chinese woman in the whole gig...they only picked the most beautiful women in China...that was nice....but a little unreal.

What amazed me was that after 5000 years of the demonstrably predominant culture in Asia they have had to spend the last 20 years catching up to the West like the Japanese did in the Meiji Period ...turbocharged with a little help from capitalist greed, spies and Bill Clinton....

 

[vitaminc]

Originally Posted by meister

The Beijing opening was as boring as batshit. All cultural Communist cultural boasting. Compare this to one hundred Drizaboned riders at the Sydney Olympics and then the Tap Dogs... and that's entertainment....I notice that there was not one normal looking Chinese woman in the whole gig...they only picked the most beautiful women in China...that was nice....but a little unreal.

What amazed me was that after 5000 years of the demonstrably predominant culture in Asia they have had to spend the last 20 years catching up to the West like the Japanese did in the Meiji Period ...turbocharged with a little help from capitalist greed, spies and Bill Clinton....

Some of those girls are nice looking trophy materials but you could find ones like those on metro areas pretty frequently. What amazed me was the synchronized and coordinated movement of the performances. Truely phenomenal.

But Barcelona's torch lighting still beats the one in Beijing by far.

 

[GTR]

Originally Posted by meister

The Beijing opening was as boring as batshit. All cultural Communist cultural boasting. Compare this to one hundred Drizaboned riders at the Sydney Olympics and then the Tap Dogs... and that's entertainment....

If by entertaining you mean lacklustre national history.

 

[dshin]

Found the video of the Barcelona olympic flame lighting. I thought the arrow passed through the top of the torch...I didnt know that the arrow actually landed it in.

 

[embowafa]

Originally Posted by dshin

Found the video of the Barcelona olympic flame lighting. I thought the arrow passed through the top of the torch...I didnt know that the arrow actually landed it in.



welllllllll, it didn't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fca-M...eature=related

but that doesn't mean it wasn't flippin sweet!

That is still the most original torch lighting I've ever seen.

 

[merkur]

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[dshin]

Originally Posted by embowafa

welllllllll, it didn't http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fca-M...eature=related

but that doesn't mean it wasn't flippin sweet!

That is still the most original torch lighting I've ever seen.

Wow....did it really fly out of the stadium? Someone could have gotten shot!
Still sweet nonetheless.

 

[loiclac]

Originally Posted by babygreenspots

They went by too fast so I wasn't able to be sure, but the bottom appeared to be square. I noticed there is a rumor that they were Hermes ties.

Did you notice the red lapel button-hole?

Does anyone know who designed it?

here is an article presenting the french outfit to the french press (or I should say a resulting article):
http://jopekin2008.aujourdhuilachine...&Commentaires=
it is in french but you have the picture.

is says for men : blazer jacket with olympic sign and french team sign customization "mille-raies" meaning thousands stripes, short sleeve white shirt, dark blue tie, pant and trainers (women have white trainers). the mix with the girls outfit follows french flag colors.

it says the manufacturer is elis http://www.elis.com/eng_GB/ which produces for professional only (how strange) doing the outfit since 1992 (as told in the article). no fashion house there. don't expect cashmere etc.

 

[babygreenspots]

Originally Posted by loiclac

here is an article presenting the french outfit to the french press (or I should say a resulting article):
http://jopekin2008.aujourdhuilachine...&Commentaires=
it is in french but you have the picture.

is says for men : blazer jacket with olympic sign and french team sign customization "mille-raies" meaning thousands stripes, short sleeve white shirt, dark blue tie, pant and trainers (women have white trainers). the mix with the girls outfit follows french flag colors.

it says the manufacturer is elis http://www.elis.com/eng_GB/ which produces for professional only (how strange) doing the outfit since 1992 (as told in the article). no fashion house there. don't expect cashmere etc.

Thanks a lot, but the article doesnt't seem to list the designer.