Later tonight, much of the world will no doubt gather round to enjoy the open­ing fes­tiv­i­ties of the 2010 Win­ter Olympics in Vancouver.

And while I could prob­a­bly write an entire post about the glo­ries of the beau­ti­ful city of Van­cou­ver (the art! the cof­fee! the food! and on and on) instead I’ll share my favorite 2010 Olympics-related promo to get you in the mood for tonight’s open­ing ceremonies:

I just love this piece STUDIO AKA pro­duced as a BBC promo.

The pass­ing and loss of (Lee) Alexan­der McQueen today is beyond descrip­tion. There is noth­ing I can say that has not already been said, I did not know him but I loved his work. Here are a few of the write-ups in the papers and some of his work that has inspired me over the years:

BBC News
CNN
Daily Mail
Finan­cial Times
NYTimes
The Times
2001 Times arti­cle
Vogue
The Wall Street Jour­nal
The Wash­ing­ton Post
Wikipedia

“Peo­ple don’t want to see clothes. They want to see some­thing that fuels the imag­i­na­tion.”

Images: Style.com