She took a break from her busy schedule to show us how she customizes her pointe shoes for performances. Following is a transcript of the video. Olivia Boisson: Hi, I'm Olivia Boisson. I'm a corps ...

Like most ballet dancers, I vividly remember getting my first pair of pointe shoes. They were by Gamba — a legendary Covent Garden maker that now belongs to the French house Repetto. Always ...

Dancers at the New York City Ballet go through about 7,000 pairs of pointe shoes each year. That's because traditional pointe shoes break down after only a few wears. All of them come from Freed ...

Affordable ballet sneakers are somewhat of a swerve in Bella Hadid's recent New York City street style. Her two days back in ...

Making pointe shoes for ballet dancers is a skill held by very few across the UK – and there is only one producer left in London. Freed of London, based in Hackney, has been making pointe shoes ...

Kelly Ripa overcame her nerves to balance en pointe for one minute with principle ... moment and shared a photo of herself in her pointe shoes last month along with the caption, “Practice ...

Then, the 2010s brought us the flimsy shoes that gave our American Apparel skater skirts an indie sleaze edge. In the 2020s the many ballet flat iterations we’ve seen have toed (ahem) the line between ...