Dancer Inspired Styles

[Kimkhuu]

I don't like skaters' outftits in general, very Beyonce-ish, not my taste at all.

 

[Spike413]

Found this picture browsing through bwgreyscale's editorial archives...I loved the movement it captured, the fabric looks so beautiful suspended like that.

sorry it's so big....

 

[sohoxchic]

^beautiful!

 

[emily90210]

Sweetees makes quite a few dresses and skirts that look very dance-wear inspired. They aren't expensive, either.

 

[Venús As A Boy]

I'm a bit of a contempory dancer actually

I'm gonna design some stuff for my dances

 

[Hana_N]

Beautiful pictures everyone!
I just remembered John Galliano's spectacular dance-couture for Dior.

Here are some pictures, and the website, with a slideshow. http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/F2003CTR/review/CDIOR

Flamenco

 

[Hana_N]

Ballet...

Ragga...

Tango...

Can can...

 

[SanDiego]

I like the dancer inspired styles on the runway, lets just hope the public gets it right and doesnt do the whole Lara Flynn Boyle thing

 

[jennifer~]

Shots from Italian Vogue:

 

[Cammy]

i want to be a ballerina, but im past my use by date

 

[utopia]

those italian vogue pics are amazing, jennifer they are so reflective of the look I'm going for this year.

I'm also liking the flamenco inspired skirts. h&m has quite a lot of these this season, with tiered ruffled...very cute. I can see them being really pretty with just a simple wraparound ballet sweater and ballet flats or flat mary janes. now I'm really wishing I'd bought one of those skirts when I saw them.

 

[Estella*]

those pictures are wonderful jennifer, thanks for sharing!

i love ballet pictures with an atmosphere of rehearsal...there was a wonderful spread in i-D magazine once, i wish i could get my hands on it!

just found this by max waldman:
natalia makarova & mikhail baryshnikov, in 1974

 

[thatsbullshoot]

I am a ballet dancer. I think its so cool that people are starting to pick up that kind of style. It was always targeted as a boring slow, annoying to watch 'sport", and its cool that people are now appreciating that it is an art and are incorporating it into high fashion!! Have any of you heard of Irina Dvorovenko, shes is so gorgeous and is so stylish, shes with ABT.

Irina

 

[_Katrina]

I love this style in general, it's so beautiful. Anyone know where one can purchase nice leg-warmers and the like?

 

[Spacemiu]

Martha Graham is a godess

Comme des Garcons S/S 2005
&
Tim Van Steenberge S/S 2004

 

[utopia]

I love this style in general, it's so beautiful. Anyone know where one can purchase nice leg-warmers and the like?

there are lots of tips regarding legwarmers in this thread: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2678&highlight=legwarmers

 

[CharlotteC]

I love the pics with the models on pointe shoes. I wonder if they're really dancers... I think the thing most influenced by ballet is ballerina flats (obviously). They're everywhere these days. My favorite dancer-inspired style is wrap-around sweaters...but there are way too many prom dresses with tulle skirts.

 

[czilla]

Have any of you heard of Irina Dvorovenko, shes is so gorgeous and is so stylish, shes with ABT.

yeah, her spread in the Shape Issue of Vogue was the only one I really enjoyed.. the factoid about her sweating off, what, 7 lbs during a performance? daaaaang. <g>

 

[thatsbullshoot]

ya she is so amazing. Julie Kent, another abt dancer also had a baby last summer(??) i think and of course maybe one or two months after it she was back to her super tiny self. Julie is another really fashionable one. I actually got to meet her at a masters tea at yale this fall. Ya, she's amazing

 

[czilla]

OT, sorry --- Yeah, athletes that get pregnant and manage to stick to their routine seem to have incredible turnaround rates... Marathon runners have the same ability to bounce back to their former selves, and there's some rule for how long they can keep pounding the pavement while pregnant --it's pretty far into the pregnancy, i believe...

Regardless, Julie Kent looks great in those pictures. Again, love the ballerina body.. Small but strong!