Stella McCartney rises to Olympian challenge

Last year, it was announced that British fashion designer Stella McCartney had been chosen by her home country to design uniforms for both the British Olympic and Paralympic teams for the 2012 Olympic Games, reports Female First.

McCartney had been working on an activewear line with Adidas since 2004, so her collaboration with the company for Olympic uniforms was an extension of their ongoing partnership.

"As a British fashion designer it is an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be creative director of Team GB as the hosting nation of the London 2012 Olympic Games," McCartney told the Telegraph.

However, the designer admits it was quite a challenge to design a uniform that combined performance and style.

In an interview with British Vogue, McCartney recently revealed she found the process of designing the performance wear incredibly challenging.

"I mean you’re working with athletes. The main thing I want to do is not in any way get involved with making their performance not its best. So for me I want to make them the best they can be.

"I’m obviously working with incredibly technical fabrics and dealing with silhouettes that I wouldn’t normally perhaps work with.

"So there are challenges – I have a million challenges. I have to make it look good on TV, I have to make it feel good for the athletes, I have to make it work – technically it has to do its job. But I think they’re all good challenges – I like a challenge."