Rose Repetto

Rose Repetto (1907 – 1984) was an Italian-born French business owner and shoe designer. In 1947, she established the Repetto ballet shoe company.[1]

Rose Repetto
Born1907 Milan
Died1984 Paris
NationalityItalian
Occupationbusinesswoman

Life and Works

Repetto was born around 1907 in Milan. In the early 1920s, she moved to Paris where she met and dated restaurant owner Edmond Petit. In 1924, their son, future dancer and choreographer Roland Petit was born. In 1947, Repetto started designing ballet shoes after her son would come home from classes complaining of sore feet. She developed ballet flats for Brigitte Bardot in 1956 for the film And God Created Woman. They were known as "Cendrillon", from the French version of Cinderella, and became popular as fashion shoes as well. In 1959, she opened a boutique in 22 rue de la Paix in Paris.[2] Her customers included Maurice Béjart, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carolyn Carlson, the Kirov Ballet and the Folies Bergère.[3][4]

Repetto died in Paris in 1984.[5] Her son subsequently sold the company bearing her name.[6]

References
  1. "Repetto". Monnier Frères.
  2. "Comment Repetto a réveillé la ballerine". Les Echos (in French). 2010-10-22. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  3. "Repetto, the original ballerina flat". Nuvo. July 9, 2014.
  4. Design Museum Enterprise Limited (2009). Fifty Shoes That Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty. p. 31. ISBN 978-1840915891.
  5. "Rose Repetto". mondepotvente.com (in French).
  6. "Le triomphe de la ballerine, Cendrillon de la mode". FashionNetwork.com (in French). 31 October 2007. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
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