GB London 2012 Kit

schweiz

Does anyone like it?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... nched.html

I don't! It doesn't really shout Great Britain to me.

rick_chasey

Happy?

Pross

Nope - it's complete s***e as I've said on pro race

I'm thinking of joining Stella McCartney on twitter just to tell her how bad it is!

LeicesterLad

Im pretty sure this has been discussed elsewhere, maybe we should try and avoid duplication in future.

Kits sh*t though.

GiantMike

Stella MyDadsFamous wrote:

The first place to start on a project like this is to look at the Union flag. For me it’s one of the most beautiful flags in the world and it was important for me to stay true to that iconic design but also to modernise it and present it in a contemporary way. So I changed the colour to remove the red bit i.e. the bit that actually represents the host city. Clever innit? Now, where's my free champers? Dad, dad, do me a favour and help me get another contract because you were once the second best Beatle*.

* I added something to the quote

Crapaud

They all look like Spice Girls (except for Chris Hoy of course).

Pross

Crapaud wrote:

They all look like Spice Girls (except for Chris Hoy of course).

No they don't - at least Geri took the trouble of checking what colours were in our national flag before having her wardrobe designed unlike Ms McCartney!

t.m.h.n.e.t

That is horiffic but Ms Ennis would please me in anything

Pross

T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:

That is horiffic but Ms Ennis would please me in anything

or nothing!

t.m.h.n.e.t

Pross wrote:

T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:

That is horiffic but Ms Ennis would please me in anything

or nothing!

:twisted:

Yossie

Sorry - not one for the Yosster - where has the red gone? Its just dull and will blend into the background. An updated version of the kit the cycle team wear (ie basically a big Geri Haliwell dress thing) would have been the way I would have gone.

And isn't this a crock of badly written hyperbolic shyyyyte:

Verdict: Luke Leitch, deputy fashion editor:

It is slick, patriotic - and at times extremely tight-fitting. The unmistakable angles of the Union Flag are the decorative seam that runs through this enormous collection, that encompasses everything from "Techfit" skin-hugging swimwear to bulky BMX helmets. McCartney's Olympic contribution certainly looked like extremely stylish sportswear. The red has been removed from the red white and blue of the Union flag, and used instead to provide an emphatic trim to necklines or as a striking block of colour in shinpads and shoes. The identifying flag emblem on the chest of the athletics kit is rendered in two shades of blue, with a subtle pixellating grid running across it. Purely aesthetic touches included a loose belt at the waist of women's off-duty, Olympic Kit jackets to give the usually lumpen lines of a tracksuit top a flattering silhouette.


Anyway, as always it'll great (if a bit smelly) on the bedroom floor when Victoria gets home ……

daviesee

The kit is pish!

That is all I have to say on the subject.

jordan_217

Looks a bag of 5hi7.

Am I the only one nervous about the opening ceremony? Can anyone remember Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood presenting the Brit Awards? - I'm thinking along those lines for the cringeometer.......

Pross

Yossie wrote:

And isn't this a crock of badly written hyperbolic shyyyyte:

Verdict: Luke Leitch, deputy fashion editor:

This kit looks absolutely s***e but we don't want to upset someone who might advertise in our publication so I'm going to say a load of BS praise instead

There, fixed!

GiantMike

I'm loving that new 'Emperor' jacket and shorts combo.

mr_goo

SHEEITE!. Where is the RED, WHITE & BLUE. I believe those are the colours of the Union Jack last time I looked. This abomination looks like a poor monochrome version of the old British Airways tail logo.

Aggieboy

Well, I like it. A bit of a twist to just copying the Union Jack and the red is still there in the detailing. Better than rolling out the UJ per se. Quite a few of them will get theirs enhanced by a nice bit of gold anyway. :P

mr_goo

According to the British Olympic Association's official press release the kit design "focused on the British flag, breaking down the iconic design and reconstructing it, creating a modern and contemporary twist."

Translated into English = "we commissioned at great expense the design of the most important British Olympic Kit in modern times for our home games and they ballsed it up, and now we're stuck with it."

napoleond

They've updated it following today's feedback -

shouldbeinbed

remember that greyish cack Man Utd kit that blended into the spectators. I think this will be the same

Crapaud

Yossie wrote:

... Verdict: Luke Leitch, deputy fashion editor:

It is slick, patriotic - and at times extremely tight-fitting. The unmistakable angles of the Union Flag are the decorative seam that runs through this enormous collection, that encompasses everything from "Techfit" skin-hugging swimwear to bulky BMX helmets. McCartney's Olympic contribution certainly looked like extremely stylish sportswear. The red has been removed from the red white and blue of the Union flag, and used instead to provide an emphatic trim to necklines or as a striking block of colour in shinpads and shoes. The identifying flag emblem on the chest of the athletics kit is rendered in two shades of blue, with a subtle pixellating grid running across it. Purely aesthetic touches included a loose belt at the waist of women's off-duty, Olympic Kit jackets to give the usually lumpen lines of a tracksuit top a flattering silhouette.…

Crapaud

NapoleonD wrote:

They've updated it following today's feedback -

It's London 2012 - need moar jellied eels, IMO.

:twisted:

Ron Stuart

Follows on from the God Awful Olympic Logo at stupid expense.
For a country that is supposedly broke there seems to a bottomless pit in some areas for wasting money. :shock:

itboffin

WTF is that crap! and what i'm i gonna do now with my old team GB kit ...?

guess i'll wear it on the commute then :roll:

RDW

It's a shame they didn't incorporate this memorable alternative logo somewhere, maybe on the shorts:

Frank the tank

It's a pile of sh1t, Stella M ought to be charged with treason for that offering.

sunburnt

I love the design, understated, cool and sleek. But it looks like the ink ran out of poor Stella's printer and we;ve been left with this monochrome mess.

kurako

I think the kit makes Jessica Ennis look fantastic. That's mainly because the tininess of the shorts and top detracts from the crapness of the design!

manglier

I think it may be an attempt at camouflage so that the Brit competitors can steal a march on the opposition. Sort of a ghost lead-out train for Cav.

se-po

RDW wrote:

It's a shame they didn't incorporate this memorable alternative logo somewhere, maybe on the shorts:

Lol, it reminds me something...

Team4Luke

very rubbish, the lack of red is a disgrace, looks like Team Scotland, would like to know if Cav has tweeted about it, go on Cav tell us what we want to hear !