魅惑のパリジェンヌを想起？　五輪ロゴにネットで冷笑

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】今週発表された2024年パリ五輪のロゴは、同国の歴史を呼び起こすデザインのはずだったが、ネット上では、型にはまったパリジェンヌのイメージを想起させると冷笑する声が相次いでいる。（写真はフランス・パリでの2024年パリ五輪ロゴ公表式典の会場内の様子）
　２１日に発表されたロゴは、前回パリで五輪が開催された１９２４年に流行していたアールデコ調のデザインで、金メダルの中に五輪の聖火が描かれている。また１７８９年のフランス革命以降、自由とフランス共和国を擬人化した象徴となっているマリアンヌの唇と輪郭も使われている。
　しかしこのマリアンヌのモチーフに対しては、ロゴに不必要な色気をもたせるものだと嘲笑する声も上がった。ツイッターのあるユーザーは「芸術家のミューズ（女神）、詩人の夢、そして、お母さんがあの子には気をつけなさいと言った女の子。彼女はどこに行くにもあえて遅刻する。あなたの夫とパーティーでいちゃついた末に、あなたが怒ったことを不思議に思うような女だ」と書き込んだ。
　また、聖火のモチーフが出会い系アプリ「ティンダー」のロゴと似ているといった声や、マリアンヌのシルエットが米ドラマ「フレンズ」で一世を風靡（ふうび）した女優ジェニファー・アニストンさんの懐かしい髪形を思い起こすとの声も出ている。
　五輪のロゴをめぐっては、来年の東京五輪でも２０１５年に発表された当初のデザインに盗作疑惑が浮上し撤回される騒動が起きていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/10/24-08:50）

The new 2024 Olympics logo is supposed to evoke French history but has instead earned ridicule online for its apparent resemblance to a stereotypical Parisian woman.
Unveiled on Monday, the design incorporates the art deco style in vogue the last time Paris hosted the Games in 1924, depicting an Olympic flame within a gold medal.
It also incorporates the lips and outline of Marianne, the personification of liberty and the French Republic since the revolution of 1789 -- an addition that some mocked for adding an unnecessarily seductive character to the motif.
The French Olympic logo tumbles out of bed on a Parisian morning, wrote Paris-based journalist Megan Clement on Twitter.
She tousles her messy bob, dons breton stripes and ballet flats and whisks down the stairs from her fifth-floor apartment to grab a baguette before enigmatically texting two men who are pursuing her romantically.
(She) has an expresso and a cigarette for lunch. She hops on a vintage bicycle and pedals past the Eiffel Tower on her way to a cafe where she will sit and read Baudelaire with her fluffy white dog at her feet.
Others compared the flame motif to the logo of dating app Tinder and suggested the silhouette of Marianne brought to mind the retro hairstyle made popular by Jennifer Aniston in the American sitcom Friends.
The artist's muse, the poet's dream, and the girl your mother warned you about. She's fashionably late for everything. She'll make out with your husband at a party and then wonder why you're mad, said one Twitter user.
I want to follow the French Olympic logo on Instagram, wrote another.
Parisians got their first glimpse of the new logo when it was unveiled at the French capital's famous Grand Rex cinema on Monday.
Olympic Games' logos have endured a rocky and sometimes controversial history.
The design for the 2012 Games in London, which featured shapes inlaid with the year and the Olympic rings, cost in the region of ��400,000 ($650,000).
- 'Compromising position' in 2012 -
Other critics said that the four segments suggested a couple in a compromising position.
Iran, meanwhile, objected as they claimed it was possible to see the word 'Zion' in the shapes and took their complaints to the International Olympic Committee, claiming it was racist.
Rio in 2016 drew criticism when designers were accused of plagiarism.
The dancing and linked arms of three characters, in blue, green and yellow, looked remarkably similar to the logo used by US philanthropic organisation, Telluride.
Fred Gelli, the creative director of the Tatil agency that won the design competition for Rio, admitted on the Terra Magazine website that there were similar elements with the symbol of the American foundation but also with Henri Matisse's painting, Dance.
It's a coincidence, he said. Human figures dancing in a circle was a universal symbol.
Organisers of next year's Games in Tokyo also faced charges of plagiarism leading to its original logo design being abandoned in 2015.
The point of contention was the stylised letter 'T' which formed the centrepiece of the logo.
A Belgian graphic designer, who created the logo of the Theatre de Liege, filed a complaint against the IOC, insisting the Japanese designer had lifted his ideas.
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