Tag: costumes

The more sequins and sparkle, the better! January 2015 Fashion is all about costumes that echo the night sky.

Celestial sequins and stellar sparkles collide in ballroom costumes that echo the night sky.

From the dressing room to the wings, our backstage pass gives you access to the trendiest costumes of the season.

If tutus could talk, they’d tell some pretty amazing stories. According to Jason Hadley, New York City Ballet’s costume shop manager, tutus often “live” for several decades, lending their transformative powers to multiple generations of ballerinas. Sometimes that history can even act as a good luck charm. What young dancer wouldn’t want to perform in […]

Dancers dominate on Halloween. I mean, we’re used to dressing up: Practically half of our life is spent putting on tights, leotards and more just to get ready for class—and the other half is spent onstage, working it in the craziest of get-ups. Of course, some dancers do Halloween in the best way possible. We’ve […]

Few places seem more glamorous—at least from the outside—than the ballet costume shop. World-class seamstresses lovingly handcrafting the gorgeous tutus that sparkle on our favorite ballerinas? It sounds like some kind of magical fairyland. In reality, though, a lot of difficult, painstaking work goes into constructing ballet costumes. When the costume shop is recreating well-known […]