Design A Figure Skating Dress Game
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The athleticism of figure skating can't be denied, but let's face it: the intricate beaded, bedazzled, and embroidered costumes often steal the show. Take a look back at some of the best outfits to ever grace Olympic ice — including the totally over the top accouterment of the '80s.
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1948: Gretchen Merrill
The six-time U.S. national champion competed in St. Moritz, Switzerland, wearing a belted skirt with sharp pleats. Without modern ice resurfacing, Merrill had to compete on ice chopped up from the hockey games the night before, and in pools of water created by a thaw.
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1968: Peggy Fleming
According to the Atlantic, Fleming's mother chose this unusual color "after learning that monks in the Grenoble region of France made Chartreuse liqueur." She believe the hue would remind the audience of the herbal alcohol, and subconsciously encourage them to cheer her on.
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1972: Beatrix Schuba
The Austrian who went by "Trixi" won gold in Sapporo, Japan, thanks to her dominant performance in the compulsory skating section, a former part of international competition. She took the medal stand in a sequined costume that almost looked like a short blazer.
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1976: Dorothy Hamill
Long before the days of $5,000 costumes, the figure skating legend turned to her mother's friend to make her simple but elegant outfits for Montreal Olympics. The bill cost a mere $120.
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1984: Rosalynn Sumners
While this white and turquoise look has withstood the test of time, the American wasn't immune to other trends of the era. She also wore an bejeweled "argyle cardigan" for another portion of the games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
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1984: Katarina Witt
The East German skater beat out Sumners by a mere tenth of a point to secure gold. Her sparkly outfit (tiara included) definitely lived up to the title of ice princess.
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1988: Midori Ito
Nicknamed the "jumping flea" for her small size and powerful jump, Ito became the first woman to land seven triples in a free skate during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. The Japanese skater chose black and gold — a color scheme replicated in 1992 by Kristi Yamaguchi — for her performance, but only placed fifth.
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1988: Debi Thomas
The development of bodysuits for male figure skaters in the '70s soon saw crossover in the women's competition. Thomas chose a sequined jumpsuit for her short program in Calgary, on her way to becoming the first African-American athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.
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1988: Jill Trenary
A three-time U.S. champion, Trenary fell short of Thomas's bronze that year but dazzled in a bright pink dress. One of her go-to designers, Lauren MacDonald Sheehan, used dental floss to sew on beads, so that they didn't fall onto the ice and endanger the skater.
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1988: Katarina Witt
Although it looks relatively tame today, this was the look heard around the figure skating world. "We're here to skate in a dress, not a G-string," a rival coach reportedly remarked upon seeing the skirtless costume. The International Skating Union would later implement the "Katarina rule" that requiring skaters to wear skirts, but Witt would ultimately pave the way for the bold, glitzy costumes the sport is known for.
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1992: Kristi Yamaguchi
Even though this open-shoulder number looks rather elaborate, Yamaguchi insists that the first thought for all of her costumes was aerodynamics. "When you are trying two to three quads in a program, you want as little distraction as possible," the gold medal winner told theBoston Globe. "You don't want anything weighing you down, distracting you, or getting in the way."
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1992: Surya Bonaly
Bonaly asked designer Christian Lacroix to outfit her for the 1992 Olympics in their native France. Spanish bullfighting inspiredthe couture outfit she wore during the freestyle program, the New York Times reported at the time.
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1992: Kristi Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi secured the gold in Albertville wearing (of course) gold. She later loaned the iconic costume to the U.S. Figure Skating Museum, along with her medal.
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1994: Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Kerrigan also relied on a designer for her costumes, tapping Vera Wang for both the 1992 and 1994 Olympics. In Lillehammer, Wang created a white spandex dress with sheer black sleeves based on a cocktail dress in her ready-to-wear collection for Barneys.
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1994: Tonya Harding
It wasn't so much the maroon dress that caught the attention of the judges that day, but Harding's skates. She would complain to the refs of a broken lace, earning a controversial do-over — not to mention her troubles off the ice. Margot Robbie would go on to reenact the incident in a perfect replica of the costume, right down to every rhinestone, inI, Tonya.
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1994: Nancy Kerrigan
It was Kerrigan that would ultimately skate to the medal stand wearing a stunning Vera Wang creation. The designer heat-pressed a whopping 11,500 rhinestones onto the fabric, as using stitching or metal back would have made the outfit too heavy for jumps.
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1998: Michelle Kwan
Vera Wang created another stunning dress for Michelle Kwan's trip to Nagano Japan. The two became so close that the designer would later create a custom wedding gown for the skater's 2013 nuptials.
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1998: Tara Lipinski
It was the 15-year-old phenom that walked away with gold that year, wearing a flashy cobalt dress with a matching scrunchie. She's since appeared at the 2014, 2016, and now the 2018 Olympics as a cultural commentator alongside figure skater Johnny Weir.
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1998: Surya Bonaly
Unlike other competitors, Surya Bonaly rarely wore skating tights with her Christian Lacroix costumes, reportedly because they did not come in her skin tone at the time. As if the fringed armbands weren't enough, the skater made history this year by becoming the only personever to land a backflip (her signature move) in the Olympics, despite judges declaring it illegal due to the inherent danger.
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2002: Sasha Cohen
According to Vera Wang, Cohen was intimately involved with the creation of this stunning ombre look, as she was for all of her outfits. "You never know what Sasha is up to," Wang told CBS. "One minute she's Carmen, the next minute she's Gisele."
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2002: Michelle Kwan
Kwan called this purple Vera Wang creation one of her all-time favorite looks in an interview with Racked, along with metallic dress she wore for her "Fields of Gold" exhibition piece.
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2002: Sarah Hughes
After viewers critiqued the teen's costumes at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Hughes enlisted the help of Jef Billings, an Emmy award-winning costume designer, for the Salt Lake City Olympics. The result? This gorgeous lavender number Hughes wore on her way to gold.
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2006: Irina Slutskaya
Not long after Debi Thomas's appearance in a daring jumpsuit, ISU soon would ban bodysuits for women, a rule that stood until 2006. Russian skater Irina Slutskaya embraced the change by wearing a fireworks-bedazzled costume in Turin.
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2006: Sasha Cohen
Sasha Cohen made a return to the Olympics that year as well, wearing a feminine outfit she dubbed her "Romeo and Juliet" dress. "I loved the whooshing of the skirt," she told Racked . "It had the delicate beadwork of high fashion, but it was still a skating dress."
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2006: Shizuka Arakawa
It was the costumes that initially attracted the Japanese skater to the sport in the first place, and she didn't shy away from the glamour when her own turn came. Vera Wang told CBS that the ultimate gold medal winner likely chose the asymmetric look to show judges she was a risk taker – and it worked.
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2006: Johnny Weir
While the male figure skater didn't skimp on rhinestones on the outside of his costume, he would also include a few on the inside as a good luck charm, he told Cosmo. Weir also frequently wore gloves with his costume since he practiced with them and wanted to replicate everything in his routine.
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2010: Mirai Nagasu
Pat Pearsall, who designs many of the Nagasu's costumes, told NBC she will listen to the American skater's chosen piece of music 20 to 30 times before designing the corresponding dress. To do the stonework like on this costume, she'll draw the design freehand before putting the fabric on a flat board and adding the rhinestones one by one.
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2010: Yuna Kim
"Queen Yuna" looked like an actual Bond girl in a sparkly dress worn during a movie music medley. The jumbled squares of metallic beads look like they belong in one of the films' opening sequences.
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2014: Yuna Kim
The South Korean, who opened this year's games, finished out her technically perfect careerin Sochi wearing a citron-colored dress with delicate sleeves. The tights that extend over her boots help create the illusion of longer legs.
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2014: Gracie Gold
Gracie Gold will compete in PyeongChang this year, but her dip-dyed look in Sochi still reigns supreme. Designer Brad Griffies — who also dresses Grace Kelly's granddaughter — channeled some of the actress's Old Hollywood vibe for this "simple" costume with only 1,400 beads.
Design A Figure Skating Dress Game
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