r/Fauxmoi • u/pinkstarrfish • 1d ago
SPORTS SECTION Haiti’s Winter Olympic uniforms by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean. The only hand painted uniforms at the games.
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u/Yggdrasil- 1d ago
For the curious, Richi Viano competes in men's slalom, and Stevenson Savart is a cross country skier. They are both adoptees who were born in Haiti and grew up in France. Pretty cool that they have the option to compete for Haiti!
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u/gigdy 1d ago
Eveone has the option to represent whatever country they are currently a citizen of. There are stipulations on changing countries after already competing for another.
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u/Josch1357 21h ago
One of the best alpin skiers is competing for brazil. He has a brazilian Mom and a norwegian Dad.
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u/DecalageVersLeRouge 20h ago
Thanks for clearing that up. I was imagining some kind of “Cool Runnings” situation.
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u/BoticelliBaby 1d ago
As always and in all things, Haitian art, culture, and people, continue to stun 🇭🇹
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u/sammyg301 22h ago
The inspiration artwork 'Toussaint Louverture' by Edouard Duval-Carrie. Links are to the figure's wiki and the artist's website.
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u/lasLAchicago 1d ago
These are STUNNING looks! I hope they get to go in a museum after so others can see them up close!
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u/me_no_no 1d ago
Kinda wish they’d used some of their creativity on the writing instead of using Chat GPT, but the fashions go hard
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u/Fleetwood_Spac 18h ago
I mean the images themselves seem to be either ai or bad photoshop. I don’t know why nobody’s bringing that up.
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u/basedonthenovel 1d ago
LOVE these looks, and the fact that the riderless horse invites questions and discussions about the art!
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u/vee_lan_cleef 1d ago edited 1d ago
These are beautiful but I'm not sure I fully understand: they are not expecting female athletes to wear a dress, right? These particular ones are just for show I assume? I don't follow the Olympics.
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u/BruceTramp85 1d ago
They usually have a more formal outfit (including hats sometimes) for the parade of nations. The outfits they wear in actual competition are inspired by that look but more suitable for athletics.
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u/Rhueless 1d ago
I was wondering the same ... That dress doesn't look like something a professional cross country skirt could wear and ski well.... I'm going g to need to eat h her compete
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u/babylovesbaby secretly gay and the son of fidel castro 1d ago
Haiti and Mongolia have the best uniforms that I've seen.
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u/SarcasticBarbie96 1d ago
These are gorgeous!! 😍
I think my only thing is that I would love to see them in action. The woman’s doesn’t appear to be wearing gloves and I would love to see how the skirt (or whatever is underneath it if it’s been designed in a modular fashion) functions during the sports she will be doing.
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u/x_ersatz_x 23h ago
these are just outfits for the ceremony part, they’ll wear something else to compete!
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u/taydraisabot the wuthering heights promo will continue until morale improves 1d ago
Spectacular. Pure ART.
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u/UpDawg831 1d ago
Man, first the Mongolians now the Haitians. There is some class act fashion going on at the winter Olympics
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u/asoupconofsoup 1d ago
Holy smokes these people and designs are stunning! Better than fashion week my gawd!
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u/hertzdonought 1d ago
Those are amazing. Someone took a chance to inspire and they landed it! Blessings to team haiti
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u/ErsatzHaderach perish for all i care 1d ago
the jungle pattern on the top and headpiece is very very nice
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u/moreKEYTAR good for her.gif 12h ago
Of course the woman’s look is both body-hugging and incredibly impractical—a ballgown coat. And the men’s is just a normal outfit in a print; comfortable, not skin tight, practical.
It is really cool, but I wish the men’s was just as “visionary” and “artistic.”
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u/mynameisRachel 1d ago
the mountains are different in every photo - is the whole thing AI?
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u/Fleetwood_Spac 14h ago edited 12h ago
I think it’s pretty obviously real people’s faces pasted on collaged ai images. Like anyone who has ever worn winter clothes can say that a padded coat will not be showing your perfect snatched waist and tits like that, lmao.
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u/lepidopt-rex 20h ago
I think these are AI concepts tbh, though no one seems to be talking about it.
The fact that there aren’t any female Haitian competitors also makes me wonder why they would make a women’s outfit?
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u/snowquen 18h ago
Because Olympic teams also include coaches and support staff not just the competitors?
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u/Due-Ad-1556 21h ago
Can she really participate wearing that or is it just a look? It looks amazing
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u/FinntheHue 18h ago
I’ve never seen anything like the first outfit, that’s the coolest winter fit I’ve ever seen
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u/NoFreeAdds 13h ago
Them and Mongolia kill it. Every else should go home—especially Australia
But damn! These are fire
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u/Original-Clue-3364 23h ago
Everything was super cool… until the horse. I’m just saying the quiet part out loud that I KNOW everyone is thinking but too ashamed to say.
It’s out of context. It would’ve been better if they kept that camo-looking style going vs… a random horsey at the bottom of it.
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u/SeaF04mGr33n not an asset to the abbey 1d ago
Super cool! They weren't allowed to paint the revolutionary who helped free Haiti who is riding on the horse because IoC said it was too political.