BALLETS RUSSES
2009-05-25Karl Lagerfeld, Creative Director of CHANEL, has designed an exclusive costume for the ‘The Dying Swan’ as part of English National Ballet’s Ballets Russes season at Sadler’s Wells in June 2009. This year marks the centenary of the first performance by Serge Diaghilev’s ballet at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Karl Lagerfeld has always had a personal interest in ballet and admires the creativity of English National Ballet. He comments that “…as a child I was already impressed by old images of Anna Pavlova dancing the ballet” adding that “…the Ballet Russes were an influence for me”. The costume has been created for English National Ballet’s Senior Principal dancer, Elena Glurdjidze, who will wear the design for her performance of ‘The Dying Swan’. She says “we always say that the look is 50% of how you are going to dance, so it is very important to have a beautiful costume”. During her final fitting, she danced ‘The Dying Swan’ for Karl, who filmed the performance himself.