Prada to kit out team Italy

10/04/2012
Italian luxury brand Prada has announced it will sponsor the Italian National Sailing Team for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, along with fellow Italian designer Giorgio Armani who will design for other competitive category uniforms.

Prada is using the opportunity to encourage interest the Olympic sport, as the luxury brand’s CEO Patrizio Bertelli told Vogue UK: “Olympic classes are an irreplaceable step to allow a sailor’s talent to bloom. However, the high potential – in terms of communication as well – of Olympic sailing is too often neglected, or underestimated. For a brand like Prada, which is so closely connected to the top level of the sport, it thus comes naturally to encourage and support those sailors who may play a key role in other challenges in the future”.