By Louise Eccles
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When dreaming up outfits for the Olympic medal bearers, they could have boldly gone where no fashion designer had gone before.
Instead, it appears, they have opted for a 1960s sci-fi look. To be more precise, the inspiration seems to have come directly from Star Trek.
For the purple suit with unusual white collar wouldn’t look out of place on the bridge of the starship Enterprise.
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Fashion parade: RCA graduates Thomas Crisp, Trine Hav Christensen, and Zara Gorman designed the ceremonial outfits for the Olympic Games
And while Captain Kirk and his crew could rely on Mr Scott to beam them up in sticky situations, there will no escape from sartorial critics when the chaps in garish garb stride out with the medals and flowers in Stratford this summer.
As the Olympics ceremony outfits were unveiled yesterday â€" with purple also dominating the women’s designs â€" it was announced that the colour scheme is being extended beyond the uniforms.
All volunteers playing a role in the 805 victory ceremonies during the Games must wear a prescribed gold and purple make-up ‘look’, designed by Olympics sponsors Max Factor, or go bare-faced.
Do the new Olympics costumes bear more than a passing resemblance to those worn by the characters of Star Trek?
Olympic volunteers give their new outfits a trial run in front of the podium
The ceremonial costumes worn by mannequins for a studio photocall
This edict, apparently, applies to both male and female volunteers. Breaking with tradition, the bouquet and medal bearers will be exclusively male. At previous Games, this role usually went to women.
Instead, the female volunteers will escort the athletes and medal presenters on and off the field. The presenter escorts will wear a purple dress with a red sash and a hat, while the athlete escorts will be hat-less and sashless.
The uniforms were designed by Royal College of Art fashion students Thomas Crisp and Trine Hav Christensen, who were ‘inspired by Greek mythology as well as British heritage’.
The hat was created by milliner Zara Gorman, who said the shape was a nod to the lines of Olympic buildings such as the velodrome.
Other Olympic outfits have been controversial. Stella McCartney’s design for the athletes’ kit, supposedly based on the Union flag, was criticised for being too blue. The pink and purple unif orms for the Mayor of London’s Olympic ambassadors, who will guide tourists around the capital, also received poor reviews.
presenter escort, athlete escort and medal and flower bearer showcase the new costumes
On trend? Zips are a major feature of the new ceremonial costumes
Two London 2012 gold medals on display at the British Museum
Flower power: Each medal winner at the London Olympics will be presented with a bouquet
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Good Grief I would hate to see the designs that did not get the nod , Seriously fancy getting students to design outfits cheap rubbish
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£11bn of our money squandered, abused and stolen, just to make Britain a laughing stock. Incredible!
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"HA HA - real shame - it looks like they climbed out of a certain box of chocolates, all dressed up in the wrappers. Let "The Laughing Games" begin!!! - Here I am again, Middle hole of the country, 1/6/2012 21:26"LOL! Gets reminded of the ad with the singing chcocolate bar! Yeah the girls look like her!
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These would have to be the least flattering dresses ever made. They make the wearers look pregnant and ungainly. I hope those who have to wear them are paid well. Fancy having to appear in public dressed like that. The only thing worse would have been a twin of the skimpy knickers and crop top the UK volleyball team wear.
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It would seem that the United Kingdom is bereft of imagination. Shop assistants in China look smarter than this lot. Fashion? More like Faux pas! Plums with b..s springs to mind.
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Hideous - purple is not a colour that is easy to wear and frankly they look like Crimplene dresses that you'd find on a cheap market stall. They are not stylish and they certainly haven't much design though - zips as a decoration, oh how original? Futuristic - it's bizarre disaster. So far the Olympics have proven to be a lesson in how not to.
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Well having listened to what the designer (?) said I cannot see any Greek influences and no British influences either. Just rather badly made boring dresses and a silly suit. And I thought Stella had done a bad job!!!!
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The red scarf looks like blood pouring from an opening on their bodies. Vile.
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These costumes look awful, and what is the purple colour scheme all about? As for the guys giving out the medals and the girls the flowers, how pathetic is that? simple solution would have been men giving medals to female athletes females giving them to male athletes, it would have had nice symmetry.
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So I guess Pepto-Bismol is a sponsor.
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