Snow White hits the red carpet

Gone are the puff-sleeved dress with the buttercream skirt and the red-ribbon headband: clearly, this is not Disney’s Snow White.

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Gone are the puff-sleeved dress with the buttercream skirt and the red-ribbon headband: clearly, this is not Disney’s Snow White.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s 2023/24 season opens later this month with the Canadian première of French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj’s Snow White — a dark, mature take on the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale that features striking costumes by French fashion icon Jean Paul Gaultier.

Several company dancers modelled the edgy looks at a sneak-peek event at Lennard Taylor Design Studios last week. It’s Snow White and the Queen like you’ve never seen them.

Snow White runs Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 at the Centennial Concert Hall.

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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ENT - Snow White fashion Local designer, Lennard and Taylor Tara Birtwhistle, Associate Artistic Director · Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet host unique RWB fashion show at Lennard Taylor Studios Thursday. Photo feature: The RWB hosts a fashion-show preview of the costumes — designed by French fashion icon Jean Paul Gauthier — that will be featured in Snow White, which makes its Canadian premiere later this month. Snow White – Fashion Feature Lennard Taylor Design Studios Castng Taisi Tollasepp Snow White Logan Savard The Prince Jaimi Deleau The Queen Ka>e Bonnell The Mother Alanna McAdie Cat-Gargoiles Julianna Generoux Cat-Gargoiles Joshua Hidson The King Sept 7th, 2023

RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ENT - Snow White fashion Local designer, Lennard and Taylor Tara Birtwhistle, Associate Artistic Director · Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet host unique RWB fashion show at Lennard Taylor Studios Thursday. Photo feature: The RWB hosts a fashion-show preview of the costumes — designed by French fashion icon Jean Paul Gauthier — that will be featured in Snow White, which makes its Canadian premiere later this month. Snow White – Fashion Feature Lennard Taylor Design Studios Castng Taisi Tollasepp Snow White Logan Savard The Prince Jaimi Deleau The Queen Ka>e Bonnell The Mother Alanna McAdie Cat-Gargoiles Julianna Generoux Cat-Gargoiles Joshua Hidson The King Sept 7th, 2023

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