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Ballet News | What to wear to the ballet ? So, you’re excited – you’ve got tickets to a wonderful ballet and a spare afternoon leading up to it – how do you spend it and what do you wear ?  Never fear – Ballet News is here! I’ve trampled the pavements so you don’t have to. One of [...]

Spring is here and it’s time to embrace ballerina style !  I love this dress from tba for Urban Outfitters because of the colour but also the ballerina pattern. It’s 100% silk, and is a lightweight sleeveless dress featuring printed panelling and mesh inserts; finished with smocked waist and concealed zip closure at the side. It’s £150 and [...]

Recently I highlighted a new exhibition of designer Paul Smith’s portraits of Royal Ballet Principal dancers. Here are all of the images in the collection – enjoy ! So, do you have a favourite ? Do you like the way that the dancers are portrayed here or do you like to see dance poses ? [...]

Royal Ballet Portraits by Paul Smith Tomorrow, leading menswear designer Paul Smith opens his exhibition entitled ”Royal Ballet Portraits,“  a collection of 17 photographs featuring The Royal Ballet’s Principal dancers, to be shown at 9 Albemarle Street. Smith met Royal Ballet Principal Steven McRae at his studio last year (he has great taste in clothes!) and the two got [...]

Ballet News | Style Pointes If you’ve visited Ballet NEWS before, chances are you’ll be aware that one of my aims is to highlight the versatility of ballet dancers in mainstream channels. Who remembers Darcey Bussell’s shoot for Caroline Baker at The Sunday Times with leading photographer Anthony Crickmay, or the leather, Avengers-style catsuit she [...]

Ballet NEWS WORLD EXCLUSIVE Which ballerina is dressed in A/W 10 Chanel ? More Ballet NEWS exclusive footage  is just around the corner…

One presenter, two film crew, four models, five wig and make-up technicians, five costume changes and one fantasy body art. Claudia Stolze Claudia Stolze has been Head of Wigs and Make-Up for 9 years now, and combined with her previous experience at Madame Tussauds, The Royal Shakespeare Company and on tour with The Pet Shop [...]

Apollo, Ballets Russes Thomas Edur and Agnes Oaks wear Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel in performance. Photo by Annabel Moeller. Since I couldn’t be in two places at once last night, I have linked to Sarah Frater’s review of English National Ballet’s Ballet Russes programme, in today’s Evening Standard. Dying swan The Dying Swan, Ballets Russes [...]

Regular readers will know that Karl Lagerfeld, Chanel‘s creative director, has been busy designing costumes for English National Ballet’s performances at Sadler’s Wells theatre, which mark the centenary of the Ballets Russes. Here is a video clip showing Agnes Oaks and Thomas Edur at their final fitting.

I would just like to highlight this article about a Chanel couture tutu which has been made for Elena Glurdjidze,for her performances of The Dying Swan, in today’s Guardian magazine. Elena is a senior principal dancer with English National Ballet. Performance details are listed at the end of the article by Jess Cartner-Morley.