Spanish Designers Attack Equipment Design For Olympic Footwear

For location European debt crisis For struggling countries, getting free Olympic equipment from Russian suppliers seems to be a good idea. However, the cost saving action has caused the Spanish Olympic Committee to encounter fierce criticism from local designers. They claim that athletes wearing cheap and vulgar uniforms show a country's vulgar image.

The Spanish Olympic and Paralympic athletes will be wearing one thousand sets of red gold colored sportswear, suits and skirts. The suit is made by Bosco sports company in Russia. The IOC said the move saved millions of euros for the Spanish taxpayers.

Alejandro Blanco, chairman of the Spanish Olympic Committee, said: "the contract saved at least 8 million euros for the country, so I do not understand where the dispute is."

Spain's design industry said that the Olympic equipment with gold design could make Spain face an international laughing stock, and the clothes of other Olympic delegations were designed by Ralph Lauren, Armani, Prada or Stella Macartney.

　　 Spain Acme, the apparel industry association, said: "this design is very regrettable. Spain will show itself to the world in such a great show like the Olympics." "It can not be compared with the level of creativity or quality provided by Spanish designers," the spokesman added. He believes Spain has missed an opportunity to upgrade its fashion industry.

However, the Spanish Olympic Committee believes that Bosco not only made the equipment of the West Olympic delegation free, but also an official sponsor. "No Spanish designer or manufacturer gave a proposal to the Olympic Committee, and Bosco offered an excellent offer." A spokesman for the Olympic Committee said. He added that it was not the first time Spain had ordered Olympic uniforms from abroad. The Spanish delegation in 2008 wore what China's Li Ning Co had provided. clothing 。 At that time, only one Spanish Company had voted for the contract.

Blanco said: "everyone in the sports community knows that Bosco is a high quality brand. It has been a sponsor since 2009. " He said the uniform was approved by a committee of more than a dozen Spanish officials. "Tastes are different. We can't expect everyone to like it." He added.

In the past 10 years, Bosco has been making uniform for the Russian Olympic team. He claims that he has "a sense of pride based on this country and a new way of opening up to the whole world".