Karl Lagerfeld Creates Chanel Tutu
01 June 2009
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Karl Lagerfeld has created an exclusive Chanel tutu for ballet sensation Elena Glurdjidze.
The fashion legend used over 2,500 feathers to make the beautiful one-off piece which is to be worn by Elena in the 'The Dying Swan' as part of the National English Ballet's season of Ballets Russes later this month.
A costume is "50 percent of how you are going to dance", said Glurdjidze, a principle dancer with the English National Ballet, "It is very important to have a beautiful costume."
The tutu was created at Chanel’s Lemarié atelier and took three seamstresses more than 100 hours to complete.
Elena was clearly delighted with the finished piece and thanked Karl with an impromptu performance in the middle of the Chanel store in Paris.
Check out Karl's own video of the perfromance below:
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by Mirror 21 April 2010
Cmon. The costume is not 50% of how I dance. A good costume is nice and it can inspire, but if you credit (or blame) 50% of your effort or performance to some cloth, then you are not a dancer, in my estimation.