The Surprising History of Ballet Flats

Описание: You know how ballet flats are those shoes that keep coming back? One year they’re boring, the next they’re suddenly the most fashionable thing again. That’s been their story since the very beginning.
It all started with Josephine, Napoleon’s wife, in the early 1800s. She loved simple satin shoes without heels, tied with ribbons around the ankles. They looked elegant but lasted maybe a day. Soon, French high society started wearing them too — mostly for balls or at home.
The flats we know today appeared much later. In the 1940s, Diana Vreeland — the fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar — started wearing real ballet slippers outside the studio. Designer Claire McCardell picked up the idea and asked shoemaker Salvatore Capezio to make city-friendly ballet flats. People loved them, and they even made it to the cover of Vogue.
Around the same time in Paris, Rose Repetto made a pair for her ballet dancer son and later created one for Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman. That movie made ballet flats a French fashion icon.
After that came Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face, Jackie Kennedy, Princess Diana — everyone wore them at some point. Then in the 2000s, Lanvin brought them back, and suddenly every celebrity had a pair.
And now? Thanks to Miu Miu and the whole “balletcore” thing, they’re trending again.So maybe ballet flats never really went out of style — they just take a break every few years.

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