Rose Repetto
Rose Repetto (10 August 1907 – 11 March 1982) was an Italian-born French business owner and shoe designer. In 1947, she established the Repetto ballet shoe company.
Rose Repetto
- Name
- Rose Repetto
- Born
- 10 August 1907
- Birthplace
- Milan, Italy
- Died
- 11 March 1982
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- businesswoman
- Full name
- Rose Victoria Repetto.
- Nationality
- France
- Languages
- French
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• Name — Rose Repetto • Born — 10 August 1907 • Birthplace — Milan, Italy • Died — 11 March 1982 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — businesswoman
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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. Her customers included Maurice Béjart, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carolyn Carlson, the Kirov Ballet and the Folies Bergère. Repetto died in Paris in 1982. Her son subsequently sold the company bearing her name.
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- 1.Monnier Frères. Repetto.
- 2.Comment Repetto a réveillé la ballerine. Les Echos. 2010-10-22.
- 3.Repetto, the original ballerina flat. Nuvo. July 9, 2014.
- 4.Design Museum Enterprise Limited. Fifty Shoes That Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty. Octopus. 31. 2009. 978-1840915891.
- 5.1982 , décès , 14. Archives de Paris dead. January 2026.
- 6.Le triomphe de la ballerine, Cendrillon de la mode. FashionNetwork.com. 31 October 2007.
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