Olympics 2018: A ranking of all of Johnny Weir’s looks, from worst to best
10. The Chanel
Most of the top comments on this look have to do with his hair. Most of these Olympics looks have gone high in terms of hairstyles, so this is practically normal hair in the context of this discussion. The style has a very retro feel to it — it reminds us of an exaggerated take on ’30s hairstyles — and that’s fitting considering the long history of the label for his blazer.
Chanel was actually, per the label’s own take on its history and that of Coco Chanel herself, experiencing the “height of her fame” in the ’30s, so it’s extra fitting.
Looking at the neckwear, since it really defies the term necklace, you can see that it picks up the circles of the blazer and renders them in spheres. Nice work, Mr. Weir. We would expect no less.
9. The ripped knees look
There are a lot of statements going on here: the jacket, the aforementioned ripped knees and then the collar piece. That last is the statement here, and it’s a bit Cersei Lannister-ish without looking particularly evil.
But despite the amount of things going on here, it’s not necessarily incoherent or anything like that — and that’s due to the color palette. Because it’s all in different shades of blue and black, it works together. Additionally, only one item here is providing a significant amount of the visual texture: the blazer. (The ripped knees have their own visual emphasis, as does the high collar piece.)