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Vivienne Westwood collaborates with English National Ballet

British designer Vivienne Westwood is teaming up with the English National Ballet in a creative brand campaign for 2013 to help with the rebrand of the dance company. As well as a fresh logo and colour palette, a brand new website and new production imagery, the English National Ballet has announced that as part of its rebrand that it aims to...

Design

Kinder Aggugini designs for English ballet

London fashion week designer Kinder Aggugini is teaming up with the English National Ballet to redesign the costumes for the late, legendary choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's version of The Rite of Spring, which includes a graphic striped black bodysuit. The production, which takes place as part of the Beyond Ballets Russes season, which will be...

Fashion

Chanel to dress National Ballet dancers

The English National Ballet's principal dancers will don Chanel haute couture for a special production to celebrate the centenary of the influential troupe Ballet Russes. According to the Daily Telegraph, the dance company, which was founded in France in 1909, brought together some of the 20th century's leading creatives, including Coco Chanel,...