Has anyone been watching the Olympics? They’re really quite enjoyable and pretty much fills up my entire TV watching schedule for the two plus weeks it’s on.  Unsurprisingly figure skating is one of my favorite sports to watch because it’s the one sport that allows the athlete to not only be technical but also artistic and fashionable.

Since the females haven’t skated yet it’s hard for me to comment on their outfits but the men certainly had some “interesting” costume choices. Like all artists really, I think it’s so important for the costume to add to the performance and not distract from it and frankly some of the outfits were so awful it was  hard to look beyond the sequins and appliques. That being said, I think that a simple basic costume is best and ornate or costumey outfits should only be worn to compliment the skaters artistic vision- that the music, facial expressions and outfit all lend into one cohesive theme.

That being said I think that Johnny Weir is in a league of his own. Weir  is fabulous simply because he doesn’t care what others think of him, and because of that he can get away with wearing a pink ribbon corset with black patent leather accents and a random tassel on his shoulder. This sort of  license for fashion lunacy  is something earned not given and has to come from within and Weir oozes this which allows us, the audience, to not look at him as an idiot with poor taste, but as someone who dares to explode with true artistry and do it on ice no less.

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