Repetto is a French

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

shoe company. It was founded in 1947 by Rose Repetto, after her son, choreographer

Roland Petit Roland Petit (13 January 192410 July 2011) was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ballets. Life and work The son of shoe designer Ros ...

, would come home from classes complaining of sore feet. Repetto provides ballet shoes for the

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and many other well-known French ballet companies. , the company had 60 million euros in revenues and employed 340 people.

History

Rose Repetto Rose Repetto (1907 – 1984) was an Italian-born French business owner. She established the Repetto ballet shoe company. She was born in Milan. Repetto designed a ballet shoe for her son, the dancer Roland Petit, at her workshop in Paris in ...

created her first ballet shoes for her son in 1947 and soon thereafter opened up her first workshop near the National Opera of Paris. The company gained fame from creating the "Cendrillon" ballerina flat for French ballet dancer and actress

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's 1956 film '' Et Dieu… créa la femme''. In 1959, Repetto opened up a store at 22 rue de la Paix in Paris near the National Opera that remains open today. The brand fell out of the limelight after Repetto's death in 1984, but French entrepreneur Jean-Marc Gaucher helped turn around the company when he took over as CEO in 1999. Since then, Repetto has expanded internationally and tried to define itself as a luxury lifestyle brand. It has branched out into a footwear collection for women, men and children, ready-to-wear, small leather goods and fragrances. The company opened its first store in America in the New York City neighborhood of

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in the fall of 2015.

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Shoe companies of France Pointe shoe manufacturers Dancewear companies {{France-company-stub