Repetto
Sign in to saveRepetto is a French ballet shoe company founded in 1947 by Rose Repetto, after her son, choreographer Roland Petit, would come home from classes complaining of sore feet. Repetto provides ballet shoes for the Opéra National de Paris and many other well-known French ballet companies. , the company had 60 million euros in revenues and employed 340 people.
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- Country
- France
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Industry
- ballet shoe
- Employees
- 350
- Official website
- www.repetto.com
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- Repetto
- inception
- 1947-00-00
- product or material produced
- ballet shoe
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Repetto is a French ballet shoe company founded in 1947 by Rose Repetto, after her son, choreographer Roland Petit, would come home from classes complaining of sore feet. Repetto provides ballet shoes for the Opéra National de Paris and many other well-known French ballet companies. , the company had 60 million euros in revenues and employed 340 people.
==History== Rose Repetto 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 Brigitte Bardot'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 to this day.
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