TORONTO - Lululemon’s Olympic Winter Games collection leans heavy on darker reds and maroons, glacier-inspired blue-greens and some giant maples leaves.

It’s all meant to inspire patriotic cheer at the Milan Cortina Games when athletes attend the opening and closing ceremonies, ascend the medal podium or wander the athletes’ village – without sliding into kitsch, design director Catherine Lebrun said ahead of a press event Tuesday.

The opening ceremony look goes all-in on the iconic red leaf, but the symbol is reimagined in an oversized, stretched-out version that spans nearly the entire length of a maroon-coloured quilted vest, which is layered over a knee-length maroon jacket.

The leaf is not just big, it’s “the biggest scale probably we've ever done and will ever do of the leaf,” Leb

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