Ballet, theatrical dance in which a formal academic dance technique—the danse d’ecole—is combined with other artistic elements such as music, costume, and stage scenery. The academic technique itself is also known as ballet. Learn more about the history of ballet in this article.
Women's Wear Daily: EXCLUSIVE: Solange Knowles-Scored Ballet to Feature Costumes Set With 800,000 Swarovski Crystals
Women's Wear Daily: Dior’s Kim Jones Designed Costumes for Ballet That Premiered at the Charleston Festival
Ballet is a highly stylized dance form that developed into a popular courtly entertainment during the Italian Renaissance, a serious dramatic art in seventeenth century France, and a world-renowned fine art in twentieth century Russia and America.
EXCLUSIVE: Solange Knowles-Scored Ballet to Feature Costumes Set With 800,000 Swarovski Crystals
The Boston Globe: Boston Ballet’s costume director ensures a good look and a good fit — over and over again
“We made a set of rubies,” said Howard Merlin, Boston Ballet’s director of costumes. “But diamonds and emeralds we’re renting from National Ballet of Canada.” In late October, Merlin and his staff of ...
Boston Ballet’s costume director ensures a good look and a good fit — over and over again
Harper's Bazaar: Designer Erdem collaborates with The Royal Ballet on new, "sensual" costumes
This underground studio has been the domain of Wardrobe Mistress Diana Vandergriff-Adams since the Cincinnati Ballet moved into a former brewery in the late 1990s (and she’s been sewing costumes for ...
Houston Ballet’s costume shop, in late November, bursts at the seams with costumes for the The Nutcracker. When I visited the week before Thanksgiving, the show’s 1,750 opulent costumes bulged from ...
Women's Wear Daily: Kim Jones Designs Costume for ‘The Afternoon of a Faun’ at Charleston Festival
FASHION IN MOVEMENT: Dior Men’s artistic director Kim Jones has designed the costume for a new dance commission premiering at the Charleston Festival on May 21. The performance, which brings together ...
Dior’s Kim Jones Designed Costumes for Ballet That Premiered at the Charleston Festival
Performances in N.Y.C. Collaborating with the choreographer Jamar Roberts for the New York City Ballet fashion gala, Iris van Herpen created costumes that merged fantasy and form. Collaborating with ...