“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.” BodyPastPurposeStepsClassFashionTrainingConsciousBoundsTraditionalBalletTiedExpertiseOld DaysAppreciativeRepetitiveElitistExecuting Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.” FashionTraditionBallet Author:Carine Roitfeld
“I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.” ShowsFiveWeekFashionOne DayBalletFashion Show Author:Elle Fanning
“Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school graduate, for whom it would have taken five years to see the difference between a ballet shoe and a book, he asked me to revive the label. It's a bit like Balenciaga. Brands like Vivier are pillars - they are monuments of fashion; they are names we don't forget. But the general public doesn't necessarily know that and therefore we had to get the name re-known.” BookSchoolForgetTakenCrazyFashionBalletGraduatesMonument Author:Ines de La Fressange