Dance dance dance...

One of Queen Michelle’s pet peeves is when brands use ballet in campaigns.

There have been some horror stories over the years. Don’t get her started on grubby pointe shoes, bad feet and poses that are just wrong wrong wrong.

Finally someone has got it right.

Stars of the Royal Ballet were the focus of designer Michael Halpern’s latest collection at London Fashion Week . Halpern, who last year featured frontline workers in his fashion week presentation, celebrated the arts in his spring-summer 2022 collection in a way that even QM will approve.

He debuted a film shot in the Royal Opera House featuring Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers including Fumi Kaneko, Sumina Sasaki, Marianna Tsembenhoi, Leticia Dias, Katharina Nikelski, Céline Gittens, Sae Maeda and Marcelino Sambé.

Halpern said he devoted the collection to a technical study of movement brought to life by the dancers, with the dresses and tailoring showcasing types of movement seen in dance.

I do not have the words to express how much I love that last dress. It gives me true joy to see the colour and the movement. It is like a big basket of embroidery thread come to life…

Just glorious.

Queen Marie

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