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Byline: Jane Herman
Rose Repetto made the very first pair of Repetto pointe shoes for her son, a dancer, in 1947, and a lot has happened since: Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and countless more performers, male and female, have worn them. Brigitte Bardot requested that a pair be fashioned with a hard sole so that she could mambo in Roger Vadim's 1956 film . . . And God Created Woman. It was then that the street ballerina slipper we see now on Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, and Sofia Coppola was born; the style has since been made in patent leather, pony hair, and suede, and in nearly every color imaginable. Comme des Garcons' Rei Kawakubo put studs on some that she designed. Earnest Sewn, which installed a temporary Repetto shop in the back of their New York flagship, has collaborated with the French company on versions in organic cotton, which are now at Barneys. Most recently, a long list of big-name artists-Helmut Lang, ...