In Lyst's sales list for the third quarter of 2022, Miu Miu's ballet shoes undoubtedly occupied the first position of the year, which also indicates that Balletcore in the spring and summer of 2023 will surely become a booking hot style.
What is Balletcore? It is a fashion item derived from the professional clothing in ballet training clothing, such as strappy wrap tops, leg covers, ballet shoes, etc. But how did these seemingly unusual clothes fit into fashion items, and how did they become a new style sought after by women?
In fact, fashion designers have long begun to explore and innovate ballet style, and the collision of ballet elements and various brand styles is arbitrary and bold. Because of her love for ballet, Ms. Chanel funded the performance of the ballet "The Rite of Spring" in the last century, Karl Lagerfeld designed ballet costumes for ballet many times during his time, and Virginie Vital designed costumes for the Paris Opera Ballet Gala Gala, and ballet art has been integrated into Chanel's brand DNA.
Ralph Lauren's old-fashioned elegance is inseparable from the social activities of watching ballet; Comme des Garçons uses tutu skirts to show the beauty of ballet rigidity and softness; John Galliano created the Bohemian Ballet Girl inspired by Swan Lake.
Left: Moncler Gamme Rouge Spring/Summer 2018 collection
Right: Ralph Lauren 2014 Resort Collection
Left: Chloe Spring/Summer 2011 collection
Right: Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2005 collection
John Galliano Spring/Summer 1996 collection
Among them, Miu Miu, who created two popular pieces because of the ballet style, set the tone for Balletcore's style. In the first attempt of the spring/summer 2016 collection, the addition of leather buckles gave the ballet shoes an elegant backbone, and in 2022, the ballet shoes returned again, Miuccia incorporated the garments of ballet dancers' training into the ballet shoes.
Miu Miu's female figure is dynamic, with ballet shoes paired with a tennis skirt, oversized jackets and streamers shaping bossy's office suit. For Miu Miu, Balletcore should be imbued with a sense of athletic power and a non-binary fluid temperament.
The girl stretched her limbs gracefully, put on ballet shoes, and stood on tiptoe. Ballet seems to have a filter, and wearing ballet clothes can create a magic moment, so that ordinary people who can't dance can have a wonderful fantasy.
Balletcore, exposed by social media screens, can't help but make us think about how to find a better aesthetic direction from real ballet style.
With cloudy blonde hair and well-proportioned and fleshy legs, Brigitte Bardot portrayed a free-spirited female figure in the movie "God Created Women". In the movie, BB's Juliet likes to come and go barefoot wherever she is - when she comes out of the church and her wedding dress is not removed, she is barefoot on the road, and the mambo dance that is dancing barefoot is even sexier and uninhibited. And when she puts on her shoes, ballet shoes are the closest to the ground, the most relaxed, the most comfortable, wearing ballet shoes can go anywhere.
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The black swan created by Natalie Portman in "Black Swan" is not sweet and deceptive, and can even be said to be a female image full of ambition, desire, and madness. Behind the elegance is the dancer's pursuit of the extreme.
In the new version of "Cinderella", Cinderella wears ballet shoes and rides a horse to meet the prince, and she can also have her own happiness without crystal shoes, which can't help but make us start to imagine a story of Cinderella wearing flat shoes to escape the family and wander alone.
Balletcore's ballet craze should not be led to be as thin as ballerinas, we should see the muscle lines of their legs supporting the elegance of every jump, straightening their posture to stretch every movement, and training day after day just to let the spotlight shine on themselves.
This is the "rigidity" and "softness" that Balletcore should have.
How exactly ballet style should be interpreted, we can find our own answer in trying.
The sock cover is fat, then it is better to give it up, and it looks equally good with various socks; Flat shoes are easy to appear poorly proportioned, then wear high-waisted pants to imitate Hepburn's classic look; If you think ballet shoes are too elegant, then pair them with leather pants or a motorcycle jacket, which just fits the ballet dancer's gritty character.
Balletcore isn't just for women, either, Bode and MM6 Maison Margiela have explored more possibilities for ballet style from a male perspective.
Left: Bode Spring/Summer 2020 collection
Right: MM6 Maison Margiela Spring/Summer 2023 collection
When Balletcore no longer puts on the "beauty stereotype", the style derivation is more different.
Let's look at Balletcore differently, using ballet as an extension of the sporty style, and we can borrow many of the collocations in Athleisure. Both sportswear and denim fabrics can be mixed and matched with ballet styles, and Bella Hadid is great for wearing elegant feminine pieces with ease.
Korean brands Pehrt and The Open Product put ballet girls in parachute pants as if they had just emerged from a training room. The combination of functional style and elegant ballet immediately opened up Balletcore's dressing ideas.
It turns out that ballerinas do love this relaxed style of movement, and ballet dancer and blogger Hannah often shares outfits after training on social media.
Jeans and ballet shoes can be a combination of weekday OOTD, and with different color socks is a new look.
Anouk Yve, a blogger who specializes in commuting style, integrates ballet shoes into daily life, and the simple matching highlights the texture of ballet shoes, and deepening a single style is also another idea.
Among today's urban fashionable girls, there is a legend that the flatter the bottom, the more stable the woman's path. The road for a single urban woman is not easy to walk, so you need a pair of flats that fit to run faster.