following in the olympic theme....

Check out this photo spread from the New York Times Magazine. All costumes are knitwear by the Rodarte sisters (everyone in Theatre 305 knows how obsessed I am with them...)

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/olympics/2010/highfliers/index.html

Practical? Maybe. Beautiful? Definitely

accompanying interview can be read here (as well of a slide show of the individual pieces off the athletes):

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/warm-and-fuzzy-dept-rodartes-flying-colors/?scp=1&sq=rodarte%20olympics&st=Search