{"id":768,"date":"2020-07-01T15:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=174437"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:44:50","slug":"fab-five-the-modern-ballet-flat","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/fab-five-the-modern-ballet-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Fab Five: The Modern Ballet Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ballet flat has long been a wardrobe staple. A go-to slipper for many, it ticks all the boxes of a great shoe: comfortable, stylish, agreeable and versatile. Its innate elegance makes the style easy to dress up and down, while its ground-hugging sensibility and flat-ish sole makes it utterly functional – a joy, even. Some iterations are so pleasant they even feel like a second skin, which circles back to its origins. In the 1600s, ballerinas danced with heels (considering how hard it is to even walk in heels, it’s a feat to be applauded). But to better articulate their feet in jumps and promote a sense of lightness, they removed the heels from their dancing shoes in the 1700s et voil\u00e0: the pointe shoe was born, or what is now known as the “ballet slipper.” Maria Taglioni was recorded as the first ballerina to dance a full-length ballet en pointe (in La Sylphide<\/em> in 1832), a shoe which was then simply a flat satin slipper with little support, aside from around the toe.<\/p>\n

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Of course, pointes – and fashion’s appropriation of them – have since evolved in terms of support and construction, but modern articulations continue to resonate in terms of shape and feel, albeit with a modern twist.<\/p>\n

The ballet flat made its debut in the fashion scene in the 1950s thanks to Repetto; the brand commandeering the shoe from dance to high fashion via Hollywood siren (and trained ballerina) Brigitte Bardot, who asked Rose Repetto to design her a pair of flats that were as flexible as a ballet slipper but softer and more comfortable – and Repetto’s cult Cendrillon was born.<\/p>\n

Now, the ballet slipper takes on exciting new form. For historical houses like Loewe and Bottega Veneta, gone are the style’s soft, spherical curves, replaced with a sharper, more angular toe, while Gucci is hard-nosed in its approach; elongated and pointed. Others have tricks up their sleeve (or sole), jazzed up with trinkets and hardware like chains and embellished appliqu\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

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The catalyst for this week’s Fab Five,<\/a> however, is Khaite’s<\/a> Ashland Ballet Flat, perhaps the most purposeful, yet utterly beautiful, homage to the ballerina shoe. Pure in its intentions, Cate Holstein<\/a> recalls the pointes of old with a stretchy top, sturdy base and quaint tied bow on top. While Loewe also makes a strong case for the modern ballet flat, proffering many a style from classically tied slippers to this jazzed-up pair as part of Jonathan Anderson’s quirky capsule with ceramicist William De Morgan, squared off at the toe and topped with a gilt dodo. And of course, where would fashion’s modern ballet be without Chanel’s Ballerina shoe? A firm favorite on every fashionistas foot, this pair come in tactile two-tone tweed; an update on a classic.<\/p>\n

Shop our edit of new-era ballet flats below.<\/p>\n

1. Khaite
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\n<\/span>the ashland ballet flat, $1005.<\/span> shop now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2. Loewe
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\n<\/span>Embellished leather ballet flats, $1410<\/span>. shop now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

3. Zara
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\n<\/span>SOFT LEATHER BALLERINAS, $50<\/span>. shop now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4. Chanel
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\n<\/span>Flats in Tweed, Ecru and Black, $1140<\/span>. shop now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

5. La Gar\u00e7onne
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\nFLAT APARTMENT Curved Front Sling Backs, $201<\/span>. shop now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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