Dancing is silent poetry (Simonides)
samedi 12 avril 2014
When I was a little girl, one of my dreams was, how original, to become a ballerina, or rather a "danseuse étoile". I was not really conscious of how much work and dedication was behind these two words, I just liked the way they sounded as in my childish mind, it meant that I would someday be able to dance among the stars, I mean litteraly, in the middle of the night sky.
Fashion editorial by ELLE Sweden featuring dancers from the Swedish Royal Ballet
I practiced ballet for a very long time but I'm not a very good dancer, ballet was just the sport I enjoyed the most. What remain from that part of my child and teenage years is a taste for ballet-inspired photos or fashion editorials, a love for tutus, tulle and soft pink and a strange and probably very unhealthy fascination for the instrument of torure called "pointe shoes".
Ballet editorial for Vogue Girl Korea
Luckily for me, I'm not the only one who seems to find ballet-inspired fashion appealing. I suppose you probably heard of the brand Repetto. I remember when my mother first took me to the Repetto shop rue de la Paix in Paris. Back then the shop employees were all wearing dance attire. Today, Repetto still does dance wear but it's mostly known for being a high-street (but pretty expensive) fashion brand.
Some ballet-inspired accessories are sometimes used by well-known stylists. Such as the pointe shoes worn by the models for Junko Shimada's spring 2009 collection (see below). The seem to be pretty unconfortable and must be overpriced though.
Fortunately for me/us, melissa the famous Brasilian brand released ballet flats which actually look like pointe shoes. And they're pretty affordable (found them going for about £60 on several webstores). They even made a
high-heel version which looks like Junko Shimada's shoes.
Ballet also is a mostif often used in lolita.
Metamorphose,
Bssb, Angelic Pretty (
Ballerina print +
Etoile twins) all made Swan Lake inspired prints and Juliette et Justine released a "
Copelia" dress, a "
Ballerine" and their latest release also is strongly ballerina inspired and named "
robe de ballerine fascinante", even if it's a bit too much of a tutu / "ballerina costume" to be worn as lolita dress in my opinion.
Many lolita shoes are also reminiscent of ballet shoes. Angelic Pretty's tea party shoes for instance or Bssb's "Odette toe shoes" or Alice and the Pirates "Prima shoes" and so on. Not to mention Angelic Pretty's famous ballerina socks.
So, what do you think about ballet-inspired coordinations either in lolita or in other fashion styles? And what's your opinion about the shoes? Would you wear them or is it a "no"?
Libellés : fashion, lolita, music and ballet
Je viens de me rendre compte que mon commentaire n'est jamais passé ! Greuh !
Je disais donc que le milieu de la danse est une excellente inspiration pour le Lolita, car de même que les contes, et c'est surtout sa part d'ombre qui me séduit. Non pas une tournure de conte de fée alla Black Swan, mais tout simplement le douloureux effort physique, la saleté des chaussons usés etc… Par contre le côté rose bonbon paillette que certaines y infusent me laisse de marbre, je l'avoue.
Testé et approuvé récemment : le justaucorps avec des jupes lolita. J'aime beaucoup ! Si j'avais des RHS, ça serait parfait. Ou des babies repetto. J'ai récemment acquis une pièce MmM m'évoquant pas mal un tutu, mais étant du MmM c'est dans la coupe et les matières et non dans de l'illustration qu'on y retrouve l'esprit.
@ Messalyn : Le milieu de la danse est impitoyable à tous niveaux. Le ballet s'approche parfois de la torture physique et souvent psychologique à cause de la pression et de l'incessante compétition qui règnent dans le domaine. Le ballet, c'est avant tout de la sueur, beaucoup d'efforts, de la douleur et de la discipline.
L'ensemble est assez malsain quand il est pratiqué à haut niveau et même au niveau amateur, malgré mes longues années de pratique de la discipline, j'ai toujours été un peu dérangée par le côté très/trop attaché à "l'image" : on danse continuellement face à un miroir où l'on se scrute en permanence et où on se compare aux autres.
J'adore regarder un ballet, mais en pratique, je préfère quand même la danse moderne qui est plus adaptée à ma morphologie et à mes capacités physiques.
Les imprimés "ballet" des marques lolitas me paraissent souvent un peu "cul-cul". Comme tu le dis, on peut très bien faire une tenue "inspirée" du ballet sans pour autant avoir un imprimé ad-hoc.
Dancing is silent poetry (Simonides)
When I was a little girl, one of my dreams was, how original, to become a ballerina, or rather a "danseuse étoile". I was not really conscious of how much work and dedication was behind these two words, I just liked the way they sounded as in my childish mind, it meant that I would someday be able to dance among the stars, I mean litteraly, in the middle of the night sky.
Fashion editorial by ELLE Sweden featuring dancers from the Swedish Royal Ballet
I practiced ballet for a very long time but I'm not a very good dancer, ballet was just the sport I enjoyed the most. What remain from that part of my child and teenage years is a taste for ballet-inspired photos or fashion editorials, a love for tutus, tulle and soft pink and a strange and probably very unhealthy fascination for the instrument of torure called "pointe shoes".
Ballet editorial for Vogue Girl Korea
Luckily for me, I'm not the only one who seems to find ballet-inspired fashion appealing. I suppose you probably heard of the brand Repetto. I remember when my mother first took me to the Repetto shop rue de la Paix in Paris. Back then the shop employees were all wearing dance attire. Today, Repetto still does dance wear but it's mostly known for being a high-street (but pretty expensive) fashion brand.
Some ballet-inspired accessories are sometimes used by well-known stylists. Such as the pointe shoes worn by the models for Junko Shimada's spring 2009 collection (see below). The seem to be pretty unconfortable and must be overpriced though.
Fortunately for me/us, melissa the famous Brasilian brand released ballet flats which actually look like pointe shoes. And they're pretty affordable (found them going for about £60 on several webstores). They even made a
high-heel version which looks like Junko Shimada's shoes.
Ballet also is a mostif often used in lolita.
Metamorphose,
Bssb, Angelic Pretty (
Ballerina print +
Etoile twins) all made Swan Lake inspired prints and Juliette et Justine released a "
Copelia" dress, a "
Ballerine" and their latest release also is strongly ballerina inspired and named "
robe de ballerine fascinante", even if it's a bit too much of a tutu / "ballerina costume" to be worn as lolita dress in my opinion.
Many lolita shoes are also reminiscent of ballet shoes. Angelic Pretty's tea party shoes for instance or Bssb's "Odette toe shoes" or Alice and the Pirates "Prima shoes" and so on. Not to mention Angelic Pretty's famous ballerina socks.
So, what do you think about ballet-inspired coordinations either in lolita or in other fashion styles? And what's your opinion about the shoes? Would you wear them or is it a "no"?
Libellés : fashion, lolita, music and ballet
The legend of Briar Rose
"The fateful slumber floats and flows
About the tangle of the rose."
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Child of the 80's born in Seoul (South Korea) - Living and working in Paris (France) - Languages spoken: French / English (surprise surprise, despite my place of birth I don't speak or understand a word of Korean!) - Languages studied but not practiced enough to speak them fluently: Spanish / Japanese / Latin (not spoken anymore anyway) / Ancient Greek - Studied: History / specialised in French Medival History -
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