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Tutu beautiful! We spoke with designer Gilles Mendel about his gorgeous, delicate creations for the New York City Ballet.

“It’s not about the moment of fashion. It’s not a model walking on the runway. It’s someone who’s going to make an explosion of beautiful dance and movement,” he explained. “It’s more exhilarating for me to do ballet clothes, but it is extremely difficult.”

“Draping and pleating and all of these things are not automatically the language of ballet. We need to really make clothes that we can use again,” Mendel said of costuming. “But I like to make clothes that can fade away like a flower.”

Photos by Taylor Jewell for The Daily

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