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Costumes of 2016-17 season

narcissa

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I am curious about who and where they have called the purple version as Purple Banana?
It's so funny and I have seem this nick name from different country's Yuzu fan group, I am curious about it.

I think Purple Banana is actually from the lyrics of LGC :laugh:
 

narcissa

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Apr 1, 2014
Sometimes it's surprising what colours look good on people. I thought the white suited Hanyu well and didn't blend with the ice that much. It's like Max's Matador. Never in a million years would I have considered royal blue for him, but man, does he ever look good in it.

The purple one makes him skintone look really...olive? It's weird. Even when he's covered up in a black practice jacket his skintone still looks a little off.
 

brens78

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Looking forward to seeing blues from a few next season as it's often a lucky colour in the Olympics :D
 

brens78

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These are my thoughts, only in the opposite direction: OMG those pants. Why am I staring. Nice 4Lo. Stop spinning, I'm seeing everything, goddammit. Don't pop the 4S! Those pants are giving me life. I don't even care about the color. Whoa that 3A! Butt. Legs. Pants. :laugh2:


Can't helped having a few giggles looking at a few guys bulges from the pants they're wearing lol:eeking:
 

karne

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Looking forward to seeing blues from a few next season as it's often a lucky colour in the Olympics :D

So I hope Max keeps his matador costume, because lucky blue.
 

sallycinnamon

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Feb 20, 2014
My favourites this season:

Men:

Yuzuru Hanyu LP: I love the colours together, the costume reflects the music and the program, and it suits Yuzu a lot. It is also well tailored. It looks like a piece of art itself.
Misha Ge SP (the lavender one): it's beautifully tailored, I love the colour, the details on the chest are gorgeous. I love the belt-like waist, and the fluffy sleeves too. I like the black pants too. I usually like Misha's pants.
Kevin Reynolds LP: it's unique and it suits him well. Very well tailored
Mikhail Kolyada: ok it's an unpopular opinion, but see above as Reynolds. Unique, suits him and the program, and well tailored
Denis Ten SP (both the first and the new ones): both look modern and classic at the same time which make them look unusual and unique. The costumes go very well together with the music.
Shoma Uno FP: lovely details and colours.

Ladies:

Evgenia Medvedeva SP: beautiful colour. I like the white-blue skirt when she spins
Mao Asada FS: I love everything about her appearance: bostume, hair, make-up :love:
Kaetlyn Osmond FP: Love the details, the V-neck and the scarf. It goes together with the music perfectly
Satoko Miyahara FP: I am not a fan of white but this costume is pure perfection from head to toe! :luv17:
Zijun Li FP: red is her colour. So elegant.
Elizabet Tursynbaeva FP. my favourite colour. And the details are great.
Dabin Choi SP: green is unusual but this shade is even more unusual. It suits her a lot!
Michaela-Lucie Hanzlikova FP: it looks modern and classic at the same time (the tailoring is conservative, the details are modern). Great match. And I love the deep blue colour.

Pairs:

James/Cipres FP: Because Vanessa looks perfect in the catsuit
Tarasova/Morozov FP: They look like as if they invented the time machine and came back from the 1970s. I know it's unpopular choice but this costumes look so retro and goes together with the song so well. I am also a fan of assymetric tailoring.

Ice Dance:

Papadakis/Cizeron SP and FP: looks so elegant and well tailoed. But I dislike Cizeron's sleeveless shirt in FP.
Weaver/Poje FP (both the older and new version): both of them are so elegant

I agree with Patrick Chan that fs is 'not a fashion show', but still, the costume reflects the music and the program to some extent (of course, not always). Because of this, sometimes it does count what the skater wears. This is why I don't get why Patrick was so annoyed by the journalist's question about his new FP costume. It's not the skater who designs the costume but I think they should have some opinion about what they'd like to wear (at least the colours, maybe the details).
 

Crossover

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As many have spoken about catsuits, I want to summarize this season's best catsuit dressers :rock:

Vanessa James - she would be the very best of the bests this season. :)
Isabella Tobias - Isabella is like a hollywood film star
Tessa Virtue - Prince would love the costume!
Julia Lipnitskaya - the one without sleeve that she wore for her SP at Skate Open
 

NoNameFace

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costumes which turned my head this season/fit extraordinary within program or music/are just exquisitely made (for some all 3 are applicable):

- Kaitlyn Weaver newest FD Aranjuez dress - http://wpmedia.ottawacitizen.com/20...-the-senior-dance-f.jpeg?quality=55&strip=all, when she stepped at warm-up at Canadian Nats I dropped my coffee cup, literally, being dazzled on spot. Not only the dress is beyond gorgeous, but it is styled perfectly, with just right amount of glamour and bling. The bodice is so greatly made, at first I did not realize that an illusion fabric is even there! The skirt works perfectly in motion, whole dress is giving just enough Spanish vibe, without being too Flamenco/Paso Doble/literally Spanish. It embodies that lyrical, melancholic yet a bit seductive vibe of the music. And what an amazing contrast with Kaitlyn's porcelain complexion and fair hair! Love, just love that costume:love:

- Ashley Wagner's both FS dresses - https://twizzletalk.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/ashley-wagner.jpg?w=611, https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LHJznfBe...jnRaOaACLcB/s640/Ashley_Wagner_newcostume.jpg, both silvery and darker one (from Nationals) are just amazing to look at, and Ashley looks smoking hot in both! She has a beauty being able to look fantastic in probably any colour/shade. Both dresses are amazingly detailed, with just right amount of sparkle in them. Darker dress goes great with her hair and a bit more dramatic make-up, in silvery grey her skin seems glowing!

- Piper Gilles dresses this season - SD: https://cdnolympic.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/20170120-ice-dance-sp-gk0022.jpg?quality=75&w=800 and FD: http://media.gettyimages.com/photos...ete-during-ice-dance-free-picture-id622844936, so stylish and going well with music/program! I'd add even more sequin bling to her SD dress, but it is fun and sassy with that 70s tassels, colourful hair extensions and deep shade of red/orange. FD dress is so unobvious for Tango, very delicate and airy-looking and yet it embodies drama, seduction and Latin vibe in it, a bit of contrary to Paul's sharp dark suit. And this purple flower in her hair, not typical red, and this purple matches the shade of her lipstick, the whole costume, styling is so cohesive, well-thought and detailed regarding Piper and Paul in general. It seems like an integral part of the program, music, not only 'an accessory'.

- Aliona Savchenko costumes this season - SP: http://www.goldenskate.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Aliona-Savchenko-and-Bruno-Massot.jpg (this move yass :love:) and FS: http://media.gettyimages.com/photos...-compete-during-the-pairs-picture-id632777506, again, there's just right amount of bling in those costumes, they are going so well with the music: SP dress is so sassy, flirty, I'd choose more bold shade maybe, but this nude is pretty too, FS dress is just dreamy, this ombre work is extraordinary in motion. And she looks so regal and commanding in both costumes, very sophisticated.

- in general I want to point out that regarding female costumes, it is a season of catsuits, so many great examples:

Tessa Virtue - SD https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DFhe2PF4...40/Tessa+Virtue+of+Canada+and+Scott+Moir2.jpg (Scott's expression is :points:), I did not even like it at first, but then it gelled in me, after all this is Prince, with all his signature ruffles, boldness and risks and the catsuit illustrates it all perfectly. Love the way those side embroidery/cutouts works and that the top highlights Tessa's killer arms;

Isabella Tobias - SD http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xr/63...97C059C2F3EE80B2C6DCB48C5DEFFA55A1E4F32AD3138, when I saw it for the first time I was like WOW - bold, risky choice to wear catsuit, especially sparkled one, but boy, it matched so well the music and showed off her amazing body!

Vanessa James - my queen of catsuits:love:, FS http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/czech-republic-figure-s_21.jpg?w=620, she sure knows her way around those risky catsuits...Looks amazing, sophisticated, modern, showing off her lines and toned body

Maia Shibutani - SD https://ytimg.googleusercontent.com/vi/lw2eAITwDjw/mqdefault.jpg, love me some catsuit on Maia this season! She looks fresh, hip, modern, so well with this blues/hip-hop mash-up, right amount of illusion and sparkle

Kavita Lorenz - SD http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/e91d3c8f1...onships-2017-ice-dance-short-dance-hk9rrp.jpg, thanks to wonderful tulosai who pointed my attention to this one, another great example to work costume well with music, just enough of glitz and glamour!

- Gabrielle Daleman SP dress - http://www.artonice.it/files/images/daleman4 SP_0.jpg, I mean, this is a stoppage dress and accessorized with this dramatic make-up, simple hair you just have to look at her...The embroidery is everything in that dress - it is so perfect, detailed, standing out, one of the best dresses ever for me, hands down!

more eventually to follow, but there are few skaters which I considered ALWAYS greatly dressed, no matter of season and they still turn my head or drop my jaw: Zijun Li, Laurine Lecavelier, Tessa Virtue, Satoko Miyahara, Mirai Nagasu, Kaetlyn Osmond, Mao Asada, Aussie ladies: Brooklee and Kailani:love:
 

Seren

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My favorite costumes of the season are Ashley's LP (nationals version), Satoko's LP, the Shibs SD, and Mirai's SP.

I also actually really love Yuzuru's SP costume- purple pants and all. I think it's because I love the program so much. If you had told me last year that my favorite program of the season was going to be Yuzuru skating to prince in lavender pants I wouldn't have believed you... Yuzuru is the only person in the world who can pull that off without looking ridiculous.
 

Ares

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Feb 22, 2016
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Poland
Did anyone notice that Mao Asada's SP costume is very similar to Michelle Kwan's from the 2001-2002 GPF?

Mao: http://www.insideskating.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Mao-Asada-SP-2016-Finlandia-Trophy-1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2tcM0xiP-U

Michelle: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/lakersgirl712/mk16-1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrCReLTx4ZA

Anyone know if it's an homage to Michelle? Or something to do with Lori Nichol's influence?



Striking resemblance. :eek:
 

Ares

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Because I really want to talk about it.
This season, which one do you guys like the most? Which one do you think "OMG it matches the program so well", and which one makes you feel confused?
Please share you favorite!

I like the one in Yuzuru Hanyu’s FS(It looks like a poem writing on the ice!).
And Jason Brown's in FS. That's so handsome!

However…I cannot understand Patrick‘s FS costume at all.
To be honest, it’s more like potassium permanganate than a journey…Even Patrick is always good looking but THIS FS costume is still too much for me.


''Potassium permanganate''. You cracked me up. :laugh:

Yuzuru costumes are beautiful this season but at the same time I have a hard time imagining myself wearing those :laugh:
 
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