Designer Costumes for Performing Arts
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New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala 2014
Carolina Herrera for Morgen:
Alexander McQueen (Sarah Burton) for Funérailles:
Mary Katrantzou for Belles Lettres:
Thom Browne for Clearing Dawn:
Dance Tabs/NYC Ballet/Vogue/Elle
Carolina Herrera for Morgen:
Alexander McQueen (Sarah Burton) for Funérailles:
Mary Katrantzou for Belles Lettres:
Thom Browne for Clearing Dawn:
Dance Tabs/NYC Ballet/Vogue/Elle
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Brilliant thread, Benn 
. Every time I come across fashion designers participating in dance/opera, I want to come here and share it, only to remember there's no space for that. My thoughts on this have changed so much over the years and kind of go back and forth.. I remember the first time I ended up in a room full of Don Quixote costumes, my reaction was very.. and it remained like that for a long time. I would sometimes look at what Lacroix does for the Paris Opera and think 'why can't everyone just balance it like that?'. Now when I look at some stuff, especially what they do at NYCB, it's like boy.. one collaboration gone wrong after the other, it's stage, not a fashion show.
I saw that leotard by Balmain some time ago, I don't quite remember the context but I fell completely in love and was like 'who did this!'.. only to realise it was this Kardashian dude haha. That may actually be his call, what we know as gaudy here is actually pretty mild in ballet (another reason why Lacroix has probably remained there haha).
That said, I've become far more appreciative of strictly traditional, fashion-free costumes.. La Réveil de Flore, Giselle.. in particularly these more obscure old ballets (such as Flora).. it's so amazing that there are few people (just in Russia I think) that know exactly how they should be made and look like, when you look at them and touch them, it's like traveling in time..
The most important of these intersections, beginning and end sort of thing for me, has been Pina and Yohji, nothing compares to her and to him in terms of meaning in their respective fields.
(anyonegirl.com)
(side note: poor Hallberg gets the worst costumes...).
. Every time I come across fashion designers participating in dance/opera, I want to come here and share it, only to remember there's no space for that. My thoughts on this have changed so much over the years and kind of go back and forth.. I remember the first time I ended up in a room full of Don Quixote costumes, my reaction was very.. and it remained like that for a long time. I would sometimes look at what Lacroix does for the Paris Opera and think 'why can't everyone just balance it like that?'. Now when I look at some stuff, especially what they do at NYCB, it's like boy.. one collaboration gone wrong after the other, it's stage, not a fashion show. I saw that leotard by Balmain some time ago, I don't quite remember the context but I fell completely in love and was like 'who did this!'.. only to realise it was this Kardashian dude haha. That may actually be his call, what we know as gaudy here is actually pretty mild in ballet (another reason why Lacroix has probably remained there haha).
That said, I've become far more appreciative of strictly traditional, fashion-free costumes.. La Réveil de Flore, Giselle.. in particularly these more obscure old ballets (such as Flora).. it's so amazing that there are few people (just in Russia I think) that know exactly how they should be made and look like, when you look at them and touch them, it's like traveling in time..
The most important of these intersections, beginning and end sort of thing for me, has been Pina and Yohji, nothing compares to her and to him in terms of meaning in their respective fields.
(anyonegirl.com)
(side note: poor Hallberg gets the worst costumes...).
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