{"id":693820,"date":"2025-11-14T18:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=693820"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:32:24","slug":"ice-dancers-madison-chock-and-evan-bates-already-know-what-theyll-be-wearing-at-milanto-cortina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=693820","title":{"rendered":"Ice Dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates Already Know What They\u2019ll Be Wearing at Milanto-Cortina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ice Dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates Already Know What They\u2019ll Be Wearing at Milanto-Cortina<\/h1>\n
By <\/span>Nick Remsen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

November 14, 2025<\/p>\n

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    Before the Team USA Olympics summit in New York City last month, the decorated ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates landed at JFK airport around midnight. Their call time at Manhattan\u2019s Javits Center was seven hours later.<\/p>\n

    But it wasn\u2019t as though they\u2019d just hopped south from their house in Montreal, nor over from Bates\u2019s hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, or Chock\u2019s native California. They were inbound from much further afield: Chongqing, China, where they had just won the top prize at a prestigious regional competition. The trip to New York took over 24 hours but, somehow, they were awake, chipper, and refreshed in the gray convention hall. The only clue that they might be slightly fatigued came in the afternoon, when Bates said to me, \u201cI just sat down for a second, closed my eyes, and said, \u2018No, no, keep going. You can sleep later.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

    In figure skating circles, Chock, 33, and Bates, 36, are in-demand and at the apex of their careers. That sort of globetrotting is, according to one of their agents I spoke with later, \u201cjust what they do.\u201d They won gold at the 2022 Beijing Games in the team ice dancing event and have also taken multiple world and US championships as a pair. (This coming weekend finds them in Lake Placid, New York, for 2025 Saatva Skate America.)<\/p>\n

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    Chock and Bates performing during the figure skating gala event of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

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    Yet in the universe of sports, the skating world is relatively small\u2014and so is its fanbase. With their charisma and presence, Chock and Bates stand to broaden their profiles in Milano-Cortina\u2013especially at a Winter Games that will be running at full capacity and (hopefully) free of COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThis will be our fourth Olympics together,\u201d said Bates\u2014though their first as husband and wife. (They married in June 2024.) \u201cI think, although the goals are really, really lofty for us, that we\u2019ve stayed grounded in appreciation for the opportunity to compete for as long as we have. Cherishing each chance, as it comes, has been our MO. I think it\u2019s a good mindset for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Chock nodded, adding: \u201cI really do feel like we are the most mentally settled and confident that we\u2019ve ever been going into a Games. Our best attribute is our strength together as a couple\u2014and how that complements the way we work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

    When she\u2019s not out on the rink, Chock has a burgeoning business: In 2023, she founded her eponymous costume design label after concepting, and producing, a majority of her own competitive outfits over the past two decades. She creates not only her and Bates\u2019s uniforms, but those for other skaters\u2014from Team USA and beyond\u2014as well. This very much includes looks for Milano-Cortina, which is now just a few months away.<\/p>\n

    \u201cI\u2019ve designed the costumes for the Spanish Ice Dance team and the Georgian Ice Dance team,\u201d said Chock, \u201cand I have [myself and Evan\u2019s] rhythm and free dance costumes prepared already.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    \u201cFor our rhythm dance, our music is Lenny Kravitz, and the theme of the rhythm dance this year is the \u201990s,\u201d says Chock.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cFor our rhythm dance, our music is Lenny Kravitz, and the theme of the rhythm dance this year is the \u201990s,\u201d continued Chock. \u201cI wanted to incorporate the nostalgia of that decade with some animal prints, and some chains inspired by Chanel\u2019s runway shows at the time. And there\u2019s also a bit of Lenny\u2019s style, too. He\u2019s a fashion icon. I studied his stage looks, his streetwear, and pulled together something for Evan that was inspired really by one particular outfit that Lenny himself wore. My look, too, has some Lenny also, especially with mesh\u2013he wore a lot of mesh.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cFor our free dance, we have a flamenco<\/em>-inspired program, so for the costumes we worked with a specialist who is a choreographer and director of the Spanish National Ballet,\u201d said Chock. \u201cI am playing the female matador, and Evan is the beast, or the bull. We do a lot of choreography in which his arms represent the horns, so I incorporated that into the design.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    \u201cThe shoulder details curve, like a bull\u2019s horns,\u201d Bates says of his free dance costume. \u201cAnd the chest is sort of reminiscent of a bull\u2019s head. I absolutely love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    The couple performing during the ice dance free dance at the Cup of China ISU Grand Prix in October.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cThe shoulder details curve, like a bull\u2019s horns,\u201d added Bates. \u201cAnd the chest is sort of reminiscent of a bull\u2019s head. I absolutely love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

    He went on: \u201cOur costumes really put us into a mindset where we become the characters. That\u2019s really important in figure skating. I think where Madi really excels is in her ability to combine her athletic artistry and her design artistry. And more and more people keep asking. I think there are going to be 10, 12, even more of her costume designs in Milano-Cortina.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cI would love to collaborate with other brands, just to bring more high fashion into sport,\u201d Chock also said, referencing her love of Ralph Lauren in particular (the label is one of her and Bates\u2019s sponsors). \u201cThe overlap has been really popular lately. You see it a lot in tennis. I think golf is going to get more of it. And figure skating, by nature, has these beautiful outfits and costumes\u2026 so I think it\u2019d be an easy fit.\u201d<\/p>\n

    As far as their preparation for Italy goes, Chock and Bates are staying the course. \u201cI think you\u2019re going to see a similar lineup of elements from us,\u201d said Chock. \u201cBut as always, we love pushing out creativity. So you\u2019ll also see some fun, interesting lifts from us, and of course, creative costuming.\u201d<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s been a challening year in figure skating: in January, American Airlines flight 5342 crashed when it collided with a helicopter on the way to Washington\u2019s Reagan Airport. Twenty-eight members of the sport\u2019s community, returning to the East Coast from Wichita, Kansas, which had just hosted the US figure skating championships, were killed.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThat was an incredibly difficult time for the skating community,\u201d said Chock. \u201cBut I think we banded together really well to support each other. And we found the family bond that is so prevalent within us. We always say it\u2019s like a family, but that experience\u2026 it showed us that figure skating truly<\/em> is. It was an unspeakable tragedy, and it still lives heavily on our hearts. So there is this even deeper honor to represent US figure skating, every day, while remembering not to take a single moment of it for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

    Source URL: http:\/\/vogue.com\/article\/madison-chock-and-evan-bates-ice-dancers-interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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