SThey are the most desired dancers of the moment, sold out everywhere, and this is a truth. But be careful if you think that they are also new, because you would think badly. In reality, the transparent ballerinas – or «mesh»to put it with the technicalities of fashion – They’ve been around for a while nowexactly since the sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen, respectively CEO and creative director of their fashion house The Rowthey brought them on the catwalk with the Spring-Summer 2020 fashion show (and even on their feet).
But why the boom in success is only arriving nowclose – among other things – to the cold and autumn fashion?
Iconic item of the men’s and women’s wardrobe, declined in infinite ways, playing with colours, textures and volumes. But have you ever thought about going out with a raincoat and nothing more? Once considered the “uniform” of disreputable figures, now the trench coat worn as a dress is a decidedly cool alternative. Let’s see why
Second Lista leading online shopping platform, Alaïa’s fishnet ballet flats – sold out everywhere – are in seventh place among the ten hottest products and most sought after in the second quarter of 2023. The features (although these are also available in the crystal-studded version, therefore in clear opposition to the sacred and essential minimalism of The Row), are more or less the same: transparency, exposed toes and the obligation of a properly done pedicure.
Alaïa’s fishnet ballet flats sold out everywhere.
They are dancers so thin, so impalpable, that It feels like wearing socks with soles (it doesn’t matter if they cost 650, or 850 euros in the version with crystals which is also sold out). Or rather gloves, yes: on the feet, though. And they fit so tight and impeccably that they don’t even betray the silhouette of the foot: they fit everything on displayincluding bones and muscles.
Another feature that makes the hearts of those who already adore them beat or even those who have always said no to ballerinas – all ballerinas – shudder. A legitimate reaction, after all, even the famous American blogger Leandra Medine Cohen – who wears them anyway, in the photo below – defined them in her newsletter The Cereal Aisle: «Ankle-cut tights, or something similar to those water shoes you wear for snorkeling or scuba diving».
Leandra Medine Cohen wears The Row mesh ballet flats.
Christian Vierig/Getty ImagesThe Row mesh ballet flats.
It is certainly strange that, from that Spring-Summer 2020 collection by The Row, the world has only now noticed the ballerinas mesh: could it be that the return to social life after the pandemic lockdowns has directly shifted attention to all the heels that we hadn’t been able to wear at home? Maybe.
A street style shot with Alaïa fishnet ballerinas.
Edward Berthelot/Getty ImagesIsn’t the truth that, perhaps, they are only good for them? In recent days Beckham and Chalamet have made everyone agree: the pairing of sandals and socks seemed really cool. However, we are talking about two deities of style. Because outside the fashionable Paradise, here on Earth, the combination for everyone else remains perhaps not prohibitive, but certainly to be handled with caution
The fact is that today ballerinas in transparent tulle or mesh fabric have made it, resisting – together with the Olsen sisters, who should be recognized for their primacy – the test of time, however short it may be. The Row continues to produce them, and it seems they are successful. Alaïa placed in the slipstream, winning seventh place on List and sold out everywhere. Many other fashion houses, as well as low-cost brands, have also decided to test the market – and our pedicure – with their own version of mesh ballerinas: Miu Miu, Cecilie Bahsen, Bottega Veneta, Arket, Dear Frances.
But are we sure that these half-fetish, half-snorkeling “tights cut at the ankle” have really convinced us?
Source: Vanity Fair

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