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As the Winter Olympics are being broadcast, people's attention has begun to focus on sports and art above the ice and snow. Among them, the figure skating arena is attractive not only for the beauties, but also for the stunning “Costume” jerseys, which specifically refers to the attire of figure skaters.
Yuzuru Hanyu made his debut at the Winter Olympics. Costen, wearing white and blue renderings with golden rhinestones, was like an elf on the ice, light and ethereal.
As a sport that is both artistic and technical, Costen is in the flower Played a very big role in slipping. It helps athletes get into character and show the emotion of the story.
The International Skating Union (ISU) requires Kosten to be "low-key, tasteful, and suitable for competition."
In order to fit the figure skater's figure to the maximum extent, each piece of Costen is customized by the designer for the skater, and all are sewn by hand.
At the same time, in order to ensure that players can successfully complete various jumping movements on the field, the weight of Costen must be very light. The weight of Costen for male players is generally within 800g, and the weight of Costen for female players is generally within 350g. .
This kind of light fabric is very expensive, and the weaving process of Costen is also extremely complicated. Thousands of rhinestones are often used on one Costen, so its price is also very high. It is said that the price of a Costen for top players is hundreds of thousands of yuan.
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Every year, International Skating Union will conduct the selection of the best clothing award to select the best-looking set of Costen that year.
ISU 2019-2020 Season Best Costume Award Nomination
In the 2019-2020 season, the ice dance combination from the United States won this award with the Egyptian snake dance theme of Costen. Female player Madison Chock (Madison Chock) Costen's production took more than 80 hours and used more than 14,500 rhinestones to recreate the scales of the snake's skin.
In figure skating competitions, male skaters must wear long pants, while female skaters have gone from early knee-length skirts to miniskirts, and now can wear trousers. There have been many changes, and they are inseparable from the fashion industry. Many jerseys It is also blessed by big-name designers. To a certain extent, the evolution of Costen is a history of the evolution of sportswear.
Today, let’s take a look at those breathtakingly beautiful Kostens.
The 1930s: The era of short skirts begins
In the early days, figure skating uniforms were black, solemn and formal, and female athletes usually wore long skirts.
Henie was the first to come up with the idea of short skirts as figure skating dresses. Female figure skaters wore satin figure skating dresses with fur trim and nylon stockings.
Olympic gold medalist Sonja Henie
The 1940s: Classic skate skirts got shorter and shorter
In the 1940s, skate skirts became shorter and shorter due to fabric shortages caused by World War II . Classic skating skirts became popular at the time.
1948 women's Olympic figure skating champion Barbara Ann Scott makes a signature jump showing off the classic skating skirt
0s and 60s: Colorful tight dresses
American figure skating athletes and Olympic gold medals Winner's portrait of Carol Heiss Jenkins sitting on an ice rink in the 1960s
Starting in the 1950s, skaters began to favor bright colors and flared skirts. By the late 1960s, the idea of wearing a dress as a separate skating outfit became popular.Ice dance suits at this time used some elastic materials, but due to the heavy fabric, it was inconvenient for skaters to slide.
0s: Low necklines became fashionable
American figure skater Dorothy Hamill
When Dorothy won the 1976 Olympic title, she wore a V-neck dress made of lightweight fabric with some crystal embellishments around the neckline. She also debuted her famous "wedge hairstyle" to the world, sparking a frenzy of imitations across the United States.
80s: sequins, chiffon debut
At this time, skating clothes have become lighter, and fashion elements such as chiffon, sequins, and beads began to appear.
In 1988, Katarina Witt, the ice queen of the Democratic Republic of Germany, appeared at the Calgary Winter Olympics in Canada in a blue feather dress and eventually won the championship.
In the 1990s: sleeves disappeared
In the 20th century In the 1990s, comfortable materials such as Lycra and polycrystalline embellishments became the standard for figure skating fashion. Ice dance costumes no longer required sleeves, and sleeveless became popular.
Tara Lipinski (Tara Lipinski) wore a stunning sleeveless blue dress at the 998 Nagano Winter Olympics, reversing the legendary athlete Michelle Kwan and becoming the youngest in the history of the Winter Olympics. The gold medal winner, she was only 15 years old at the time. She announced her retirement after winning the championship and left the professional arena permanently.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Chinese player Chen Lu stunned the arena with her song "Butterfly Lovers", which is an international figure skating arena. For the first time, Chinese music sounded, and Chen Lu, who competed with Lipinski, finally won the bronze medal. This is China's only Olympic medal for women's single skating so far.
experienced injuries and recovery, and his performance once hit the bottom, but then slowly climbed back to the top. At the Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan, amid the melodious melody of "Butterfly Lovers", Chen Lu fluttered in purple clothes, like a transformed "butterfly on the ice." At the end of the song, she knelt on the ice rink, buried her head deeply in her hands, and burst into tears, feeling all kinds of emotions
The famous wedding dress designer Vera Wang (王伟伟) was also a figure skater in her youth. Later, he designed Costen for many well-known American figure skaters such as Nancy Kerrigan ( Nancy Kerrigan ) and Michelle Kwan (Kwan Yingshan).
The 21st century: fighting for beauty, style is the most important
Entering the 21st century, the production of ice dance costumes has become more and more sophisticated, full of all kinds of creativity. Contestants will determine their competition clothes based on the theme, style and personal characteristics, and they will have distinctive national characteristics.
The 2006 Olympic figure skating champion Shizuka Arakawa wore a Japanese kimono-style ice dance suit
At the 2018 Winter Olympics , Yuzuru Hanyu wore a performance suit whose silhouette imitated the kimono "kari" of the Heian period. The back is embroidered with Onmyoji's "Pentagram", which is highly consistent with the selected "Onmyoji" theme song.
It is also essential to borrow ideas and designs from big brands.
Among the three little flowers in the current Russian women's singles, Shcherbakova (Shcherbakova) adopts a high-class classical style. Each of her Costen sets are exquisitely designed. According to designer Olga Rynbeako, more than 3,400 set diamonds are often used on one Costen piece.
And her most famous Costen is ice cross-dressing.In this program called " firebird ", midway through the performance, Qianjin suddenly started to spin and change her costume, and her costume instantly changed from blue to fiery red, perfectly echoing the "Firebird" "This theme.
Trusova, who opened a new era of women's singles quadruple jump, is doing it in a cool and handsome style. Black, leather, and navel nails, these rare elements all appear on her body.
There is also a Wonder Woman style that keeps pace with the times -
Do you think she is the same as this little fairy?
Chinese style is of course also a beautiful scenery.
China Xiaohua's Costen is basically produced by Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology , and most of the styles are fairy-like.
Chen Hongyi This peacock-themed Kosten has a typical cheongsam neckline design. The whole body is composed of silk, spandex, yarn and other fabrics, and silk is a typical fabric used by Chinese players.
Chen Hongyi is wearing a modified cheongsam, the buttons at the slanted neckline have turned into flowers, which has a special charm of an oriental beauty.
Zhu Yi, a naturalized player who represented China at the Beijing Winter Olympics, as a player with both Chinese and American backgrounds, her Costen combines the style characteristics of the East and the West. The Chinese red not only represents China, but also Represents Western passion and sensuality.
Wang Shiyue Liu Xinyu made a stunning appearance at this Winter Olympics wearing "Chinese Landscape Painting". The boy is a mountain, dressed in dark green, tall and tall, and the girl is water, clear and crystal clear, with soft ripples. Presenting the cascading pictures of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers on the ice not only expresses the softness and elegance of the Chinese style, but also reminds people of the cultural connotation of "green mountains and green waters" on the ice.
Chen Kaiwen , who represented the United States in this Winter Olympics, the blue sleeves of "House of Flying Daggers" by Costen also stunned the audience.
At this Winter Olympics, Korean athletes took up the women's team style. All kinds of sequin skirts are blinding.
also has very rare midriff-baring outfits and semi-see-through outfits.
Handsome guys and beautiful girls, gorgeous clothes, light and elegant, in a word, figure skating is so beautiful!
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