Bags Quote by Edgar Degas

To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special.

— Isabel Toledo

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

— Ninette de Valois

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for…

— Natalie Portman

Celebration has many different outfits but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

I've always felt like a different kind of ballerina.

— Wendy Whelan

Classical dance is so pure and beautiful you don't need to add anything to its authenticity or beauty.

— Shakti Mohan

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

— Coco Chanel

Designing and creating dance clothes has taken my love for dancewear to a whole other level, melding the creative process with my daily fashion…

— Mary Helen Bowers

“Even feminists who never wore a skirt or make-up went crazy about Kickers, or wore beautifully hand-painted boots in rainbow colors; they adorned themselves…

— Juliet Schor

I grew up watching old musicals and seeing Ginger Rogers wearing a beautiful fitted bodice that had ostrich feathers. I love how it moved…

— Gina Torres

I think most people think of ballerinas as kind of either as a fairytale, far-away thing that's really not attainable, something they can't grasp,…

— Misty Copeland

There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's…

— Zooey Deschanel