October 30, 2015 |
Costume-based news for a costume-based weekend. The wonderful people at Prada are adding another string to their bow by designing a costume for David Hallberg, the principal dancer for the Bolshoi Ballet and American Ballet Theatre (which means he’s very good, by the way). The occasion? A performance of Fortuna Desperata by Francesco Vezzoli in New York this Sunday. Vezzoli says – “the costume which Prada has made for David Hallberg is the perfect metaphor for his Fortuna Desperata performance. Its pseudo-renaissance style is philological, yet the materials are ultra-modernist. Like the dance steps that Hallberg will perform, his costume will seem like a futuristic version of a painting by Beato Angelico”. Wow – we’re not entirely sure what this means (it’s late on a Friday afternoon – forgive us!) – but it certainly sounds fancy. We just wish that we had taken ballet lessons as I child because 1) we’d have a better body than we do now 2) we’d love to slip into something more uncomfortable for the weekend…
UPDATE: See the costume in all its glory above…
Photographs by Ale Chad Watterson
