Today is the first day of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. I am not particularly thrilled about these games, but there is nothing I can do now but try and have some fun. New York fashion week also started yesterday, and I will be doing my Love and Loathe for some of the catwalk shows, the ones I think are important. Despite being busy with Olympics, and visitors from Sweden, and all of the fashion shows, I still fully intend on posting some regular blog content.

If you’d like to read a bit about the Olympics fashion, you can check out my VERY generic coverage of Olympic style on Examiner. I also did an article about some very cool athlete and consumer gear for the latest issue of View2. If you’d like to know my thoughts on the rather disgusting sponsorship deals, read this interesting article on Business of Fashion, and check out my long-winded comment on the bottom. I also contributed to this Urban Junkies Vancouver Guide, sponsored by Oakley.

In the meantime, here are some fun Olympics images.

These images of Team USA wearing special edition Rodarte knitwear, shot by Ryan McGinley for The New York Times Magazine are pretty cool.

Jeret (Speedy) Peterson, Freestyle Skier (Aerials)

Johnny Weir, Figure Skater

Rachael Flatt, Figure Skater

Emily Cook, Freestyle Skier (Aerials)

Some creative anti-Olympics images…

Image source.

Image source.

And here is a genius logo from the anti-Olympics camp. Is it a middle finger? Or is it a phallic symbol? (Thanks to Jocelyn and Andrew for that!)

I went into the new Oakley store on Robson street last week (this was not out of choice, it was part of a project I am doing) and was very impressed with their custom eyewear line. I wouldn’t normally set foot into an Oakley store unless I was in the market for snowboarding goggles, although they do other stuff too, like ski apparel and watches.

The new store on Robson street has this line of custom eyewear, where you can choose the frames and the lens colour and they’ll have them ready for you same day. (Bad news, if you want prescription lenses, they can’t do that same day…)

At first I though the only person who can get away with these is the Australian guy with perma tan, bleached blond hair, and who wears board shorts year round, no matter what the weather. But then I tried a pair on, and thought these could be very fun with slicked hair and a worn with lots of black.

Maybe I am getting a bit obsessive over eyewear at the moment, but I am still really loving these crazy things.