Turin organizers on Thursday expressed great expectation for Friday's opening ceremony of the 20th Winter Olympic Games, and vowed to display their Italian style and design to some 35,000 spectators and 2 billion TV viewers throughout the world.

"For years we have been working on this ceremony, it will be one of the most important turning points of the Games," Valentino Castellani, president of the Turin Olympic Organization Committee (TOROC) said at a press conference on the opening ceremony.

Marco Balich, art director of the ceremony, explained that " style and design are also main issues for Italians, we want to show that the capital of style and design is Turin."

TOROC's image and events director Andrea Varnier hoped the ceremony represent the centrality of the human being, a key concept of the Renaissance, and designed a ceremony with maximum public participation.

For the ceremony, to be held at the renewed Torino Olympic Stadium, the organizers have invited some international fames to form a top-notch creative team, including Gabriella Pescucci, the costume designer for the opening ceremony.

Pescucci, a current Oscar nominee for the costumes of Tim Burton's "Chocolate Factory", won the Oscar award of the category in 1994 for "The Age of Innocence" by Martin Scorsese.

Giorgio Armani, one of the most famous Italian fashion designers, will particularly sew up for the flagman of the Italian colors, one of the most inspiring moments of the Games' opening ceremony.

Fashion house Moschino, another great name of Italian haute couture, has been chosen to adorn the athletes' parade with its unmistakable style.

TOROC said that passion, dynamism, Italian flair are themes that inspired the concept and production of the ceremony, these and many other ingredients will bring to life an unconventional Italian event.

Source: Xinhua