#London2012

For those who have been at Mars for the past year, the Olympics are practically here (more specifically- tomorrow)! Being the TV junkie I am, I'm extremely stoked for an occasion that only occurs once every 4 years. Especially, when it comes to the Opening Ceremony! Many of you are probably thinking "Of course! You're not into this for the sports!", but you're incredibly mistaken. The sports are 50% of my excitement. The other 50% : the fashion! Fashion at the Olympics? You read correct! World known designers have been collaborating outfits for many countries, and since there are so many countries being represented, I'm going to list here just a few of my favorites:

For the USA, who better than the classy and sophisticated Ralph Lauren?

Here are the opening ceremony outfits




 and the closing ceremony outfits.
 


We also got the amazing Stella McCartney for the Great Britain! This is called the "Olympic Kit" ( aka - when they design the clothes they'll be wearing to compete. ) You're probably wondering if it's possible to get one of these fancy shmancy outfits for the gym, but thus is not so. This is actually a collaboration that McCartney did with Adidas.

Stella with her athletes in her designs.






Cedella Marley has designed the ceremonial outfits and Kit for Jamaica. Did anyone catch the coincidence? If you guessed that it's only predictable that Cedella would design for her father's, Bob Marley, home country, you guessed right!







Also thrown into the bunch is a sketch of a jacket for the equestrian team for France by the great Hermés.


Then we have Armani for Italy!



Prada has designed the kit for the Italian national sailing team



One of my favorites is Salvatore Ferragamo for the Republic of San Remo.
 
 
 


The Australian's outfits have already been unveiled, and I just have one question: where did that green come from?


And last and for certain not least, one of my other favorites, is the Netherlands. Love the bright orange!


Is the fashionsta in you still not satisfied? Check out this blogger who has posted every country which has revealed their outfits already!

And for the designers who aren't making clothes for the Olympians themselves, they instead make their own Olympic collection. Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel has come up with an Olympic - themed collection to be unveiled the night before the Olympics. To see a preview of the collection, head on over to Vogue.
The name of the collection? Team Karl.



Photos courtesy of  vogue.com and google search.