https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:47:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097805 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:23:54 +0000 nuancedream 2097805@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I work part time as an usher for McCaw Hall. Through 2/9, Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle is currently performing Cinderella and the opening scene of Act 2 is breathtaking with the women dressed in red ballgowns. The PNB costume and scene shop is truly amazing and its staff are unsung heroes. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097783 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:01:02 +0000 Angie 2097783@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the ballet! How beautiful. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097774 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:06:31 +0000 rachylou 2097774@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Back to say I really love ballet costuming. It’s magical. Maybe it’s the dancing that makes it so. People go on about opera but there, honestly, it’s only the music I care about. What an opera audience wears is more interesting than what’s on stage... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097752 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:52:18 +0000 Murph11 2097752@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love this! Perfectly timed article, KARI, as we’re going to Cinderella Sunday (a neighbor is dancing), and I haven’t been to a ballet in years. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097748 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:30:55 +0000 Anonymous 2097748@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Love it- though not enough to brave NYC *curls up in nice quiet place in the woods*.<br /> Definitely see, and enjoy, the ballet influence with all the tulle skirts around now! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097736 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:05:54 +0000 nemosmom 2097736@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oooooh how I would LOVE to see this in person...&nbsp; Thank you for sharing, Kari! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097732 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 11:55:20 +0000 April 2097732@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So beautiful!&nbsp; </p> <p>Kari, I didn't know you were a balletomane.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097721 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 08:02:17 +0000 rachylou 2097721@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok. This show needs to go on the road! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ballerina-fashion%e2%80%99s-modern-muse-at-mfit#post-2097705 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:19:38 +0000 Kari 2097705@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ballet geekery, fashion related: “ Chanel evening gowns, Karinska costumes, Margot Fonteyn's personal wardrobe and more!” (via Pointe Magazine)</p> <p>“A new exhibition titled "Ballerina: Fashion's Modern Muse," running at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City from February 11–April 18, ties together a few of our favorite things: fashion, dance history and, of course, ballet.</p> <p>“ Organized by MFIT deputy director Patricia Mears, the exhibition features approximately 90 objects—tutu-inspired haute couture, ready-to-wear designs based on leotards and practice clothes, and a selection of ballet costumes—many of which are on display in the U.S. for the first time. The exhibition is primarily comprised of items from 1930-1980. Before the mid-twentieth century, ballet was largely marginalized and its dancers frequently exploited. But, the exhibition argues, after the Ballets Russes' 1909 triumph in Paris, and the following success of Anna Pavlova throughout the West, balletomania began in earnest. And ballet's profound impact on fashion followed.”</p> <p>The exhibit (in person, and will have an online exhibition as well as programs on YouTube) will include “ gowns by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Christian Dior, Pierre Balmain and Charles James; costumes worn by Anna Pavlova and Margot Fonteyn; and designs by Christian Bérard for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, Barbara Karinska and Marc Happel for New York City Ballet, and Geoffrey Holder for Dance Theatre of Harlem. Ready-to-wear items, designed by Bonnie August of Danskin among others, reflect the popularity of leotards and tights into mainstream mid-century fashion—a trend in part inspired by George Balanchine's black-and-white ballets. Also on display are garments from Fonteyn's private wardrobe.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.pointemagazine.com/ballerina-fashion-exhibit-fit-2645054813.html?share_id=5268395" rel="nofollow">https://www.pointemagazine.com.....id=5268395</a></p> <p>Lamenting that I’m on the wrong coast for many of MFIT’s amazing exhibits that I’d love to see - though in this case, locally Pacific Northwest Ballet’s costume department produces true works of art (see their costumes made a couple years ago for Jewels with Jerome Kaplan‘s designs, or A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Balanchine’s choreography with PNB-specific costume and sets designed by Martin Pakledinaz.) </p>