Ballerinas for men, at the head of daring

on dramatic flights dance of knights taken Romeo and Juliet (1935) by Prokofiev, young models step forward with closed faces. This January afternoon, for the Dior Men Fall-Winter 2024-2025 show, they wore striped double-breasted jackets, wool mini-shorts with a long zip-up fly, elaborate turbans, brocade capes or tuale de jou… ballerina flats, leather or quilted satin, front With or without criss-cross elastic on the side. “We reworked these dance shoes into a more masculine tome, in honor of Rudolf Nureyev, which intersected with my personal history because my uncle, Colin Jones, who was also a dancer, was a friend of his and photographed them. says Kim Jones, artistic director of menswear at the French house.

Men in ballerina flats? It is the new fashion of certain fashion brands, from Balenciaga to Thom Browne, from MM6 Maison Margiela to Dries Van Noten or Bode, that has made it a signature. In France, Lemaire, which offered a black nappa leather model with a buckle strap for Spring/Summer 2023, has seen fit to resume its production for Spring/Summer 2024.

High-heeled shoes, derived from ancient-mode ball shoes, appeared in the West at the beginning of the 19th century.^e century, first at the dancers’ feet, allowing them to elevate their bodies to extremes. Technic “Historically associated with Marie Taglion’s performance at the Paris Opera Sylph in 1832″, restores the explorer Melody Le Ley’s catalog “Walk and come near. “History of Shoes”, the exhibition was organized in the Museum of Decorative Arts in 2019.

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But in the middle of the 20th century^e In the century, this stage slippers come to the city, apartment. While in the United States the manufacturer Capezio created a sophisticated pair for stylist Claire McCardley, in France Rose Repetto opened a workshop in October 1947 that supplied the Paris Opera. The legend was perhaps best remembered for Ballerina Cinderella, imagined and seen for Brigitte Bardot in 1953. And God created woman (1956), Roger Vadim, “The first Repetto dance shoes were created for a man, the son of the founder, star dancer Roland Petit. We look back within the brand. He developed an extremely flexible slipper for her that would follow the movement of her painful feet using a stitch-and-turn technique. A stitch made on the wrong side before being placed on the right side.