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- Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski. All images via Getty.
- Maé-Bérénice Meité (Women’s Free Skate)
- 10th place finisher for the women, Maé-Bérénice Meité of France wowed the judges with her incredible jumps and savvy dance, but also gets bonus points in our book for her killer sense of style. While other contenders strutted onto the ice in flowy,
- Carolina Kostner (Women’s Short Program)
- Kostner earned the first-ever individual figure skating medal for Italy when she claimed the bronze, but she also gets the prize for being the most elegantly-dressed skater of the games. Costner skated to “Ave Maria” during her short program and wo
- Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy (Pairs Short Program)
- Go big or go home: The Olympics is the time to go all out and we can’t help but love German pairs skater Aliona Savchenko’s over-the-top Pink Panther-themed unitard. Not only did the neon catsuit help the German team get the attention of the
- Kaetlyn Osmond (Women’s Free skate)
- Canadian Katelyn Osmond, a relative newcomer on the international skating scene, may have helped Canada win the team silver in the inaugural figure skating team event, but it was the chandelier-esq back of her exceptionally elegant free skat
- And now, for a few who missed this year's figure skating fashion podium. First up, Misha Ge (Free Skate).
- Misha Ge of Uzbekistan successfully matched his hair to his free skate costume. And that was just about the only successful part of this busy getup.
- Viktoria Helgesson (Short Program)
- The garish makeup, the combination of baby pink and black, the choppy hair—Viktoria Helgesson, you're better than this. Sweden's better than this.
- Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise
- Italians are heralded for their fashion expertise, but Italy’s representatives in pairs skating, Della Monica and Guarise, look like extras who wandered off the Game of Thrones set.