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Jon Olsson "21st century man"
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from a J lindeburg press release as 2005 winter collection is launched at Harrods in London:
“Skiing is as much a natural extension of the J. Lindeberg lifestyle as is golf” says Johan Lindeberg, who lived and skied in the French Alps during his youth. “I want to achieve the same thing with ski as with golf, using the values of classic sports while adding a new modern dimension. Jon is amazing. He has great taste, he is a true 21st Century pioneer, and this is why we like him. He is the perfect role model to co-create a new modern movement in ski apparel. Jon has been very involved in the collection from the start, ensuring that the design and the technical features reflect the needs of the modern skier”.
"The J.Lindeberg Future Sports Ski collection features high performance ski wear in innovative designs and bold colors. Icon pieces of the collection are white leather ski jackets and turquoise rabbit fur and nappa ski jackets, but it also includes amazing technical parkas, ski pants and down jackets."
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i think jon is doing nothing differently than anyone else in the ski industry. look at tanner, or tj schiller, they always have outfits that might not strike us as outrageous, but are always at the front line of whats out now, fashion wise. jon is making a statement just as much as tanner is.
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no offence, but that is so much sucking-up-to-jon-jibberish. I hate it when everytime there's a thread about something there's allways a mr. angel trying to say "maybe he doesn't care" or "shut up if your not as good as him". not to be the bashing kind of guy here, but I really can't help it. Isn't it pretty fundamental that jon don't care? like, why even write that? and as far as the whole word-shitting with "expressing himself" and "being creative" - just lay it of mr. fab-five.
Just see it for what it is. You should be the one that respect other people for having oppinions about his apparel.
and lastly, what is wearing oakley-stuff has to do with creativeness? is a person unable to do a blindside switch-up with the wrong clothing wereas with a j.lindeberg outfit it's just like a whip with the wand and you're suddenly able to to every trick in the book?
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^ and to add: I love jon, he's my favorite skier, but I don't like his apparel. and wether you think it or not, the size of the clothes DOES change the way someone looks in the air.
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^First of all, I'm not sucking up to him because I can almost positively say he won't be reading this. It's my opinion, and I admire him for doing what he does. Sucking up has nothing to do wiht it. I've never met him, probably never will meet him, so why the hell would I purposely suck up to somebody? It's one thing to suck up to somebody, but something completely different to admire somebody
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^ synonyms. now you're just marking words. just get th point.
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We dissagree on the point, i was just pointing out the words. But on the point, I think that jon is doing something different with the sport and I think it is healthy for the sport. I personally don't want one style to completely innundate the sport, which is whats been happening in the past couple years with t hall and that crew. Look at the last X games for example. I don't remember exactly, but I'm almost positive every skier on teh podium for superpipe had a fur lined hood. Thats kind of lame. Why should everybody be the same? Nobody is the same person, so why should they dress the same?
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jon olsson in my opinion is the best and most stylie skier on this planet. every segment he throws together is the best segment in the film its in and makes any film better than it was before. what he is doing with j. lindeberg is proving that you dont need core sponsors to be big and that you should have individual style rather than the core stuff. i applaud jon on being so dope and i hope he helps take skiing in a whole new direction. ps...his pink suit with yellow belt was fuckin steezy!
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^Yea I agree. I think what's going to be REALLY funny is when you see a bunch of kids in the park this winter wearing J. Lindenberg suits. Becasue they will only be wearing it becasue somebody cool wore it.
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thats true...but at least jon is trying to be individual instead of copying other pro's
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well, in slopestyle charles gagnier and jon were both super-tight. But to find an explaination to the one-way fashion - I think it's one simple answer: baggy clothes looks better in the air. this is not just a from-the-top-of-my-head-thought, but i've actually thought about it alot. I don't like to look at jon as much as I did before just because of the tight clother (and maybe bacause he uses the "not quite at the nose"-cricical like all the time in fakie cork 5's). His segment in not another ski movie was so better than the ones this year.
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i dont kno i think that its pretty sweet..some of the clothes are pretty goofy but jon is the man so it doesnt matter i think its cool he has his own individual style
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^^true it might look a little smoother in the air, but what I think would be the ultimate if somebody could look that smooth while wearing properly fitting clothes. That would be impressive.
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well, then that person could allways raise the bar and wear XXL, haha... Seriously, that might take a couple of years in my world for me to like that kind of style.
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