Whether you’re a professional ballerina or just dancing ballet for fun, you need a proper ballet shoe to protect your feet. Also called ballet slippers, classic ballet shoes are flexible and feature ...

Faith Salie show us what goes into pointe shoes besides some very talented feet: In the world of ballet, Christmas means one thing: "The Nutcracker"! Stages across the country fill with twirling ...

Pointe ballet shoes in colours that match Asian and black skin tones are being made for the first time in the UK. For women of colour, practising ballet used to mean having to paint pointe shoes to ...

Anna is a freelance dance critic and arts journalist. Making ballerinas’ footwear is a mix of physical labour and nuanced expertise. Anna Winter speaks to shoe experts and principals about the lengths ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Of all the circles of women I’ve been lucky to join over the years, perhaps the ...

There is something undeniably enduring about the best ballet flats for women. In a fashion landscape that swings between slinky kitten heels and chunky dad sneakers, the lasting appeal of this slender ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For most of my late teens and early twenties, ballet flats were my go-to shoes. I wore them to class, to the ...