What is ballet core fashion trend 2023?

Balletcore, a trendy style inspired by ballet, has become as popular as mainstream culture. This happened after Miu Miu reintroduced it on the runway in 2022.

Props to Miu Miu for catapulting Balletcore back into the limelight on the runway in 2022, turning it into a social media sensation with over 9.5 million TikTok views overnight. The popularity of this style has also brought the movie "Black Swan" released in 2010 back into the audience's attention.

Fashion magazine "VOGUE" said: "Balletcore not only represents people's fashion fantasies but also conveys more practical daily wearing needs."

Styles such as Gorpcore and Blokecore have become popular in recent months. This naming method with "-core" as the root originates from the Hardcore movement of Punk music in the last century. It represents the core of the prefixed noun and demonstrates a group's loyalty to the culture they believe in. "Core" is not a single aesthetic style, but a symbol of a subcultural group with the same hobbies and ideas.

Ballet aesthetics is penetrating daily life with a new 'approachable' look.

Balletcore fans can wear it both on stage and daily, inspired by dancers' performances and rehearsal outfits. It embodies the elegance and sophistication of ultra-femininity with its innate sense of relaxation.

And ballet itself also shows the soft power of embracing the deepest part of the heart. Dance shows beauty across races, backgrounds, shapes, and sizes, and fashion blends with dancers, dance, and costumes to create a unified overall effect.

The relationship between ballet and fashion can be traced back to the early 2000S century. As early as that era, ballet gradually became a source of inspiration for fashion masters. Whether it is men's clothing, women's clothing, or unisex, it can be cleverly integrated.

In past fashion shows, many designers also used typical ballet core elements in their clothing, such as tulle skirts, ballet shoes, tights, bow hair accessories, ribbons, lace, ballet socks...

Here we share with you some typical looks from the show.

In line with the popularity of the ballet core style, ballet shoes, and socks, which are the easiest to match, have become hot items recently. Many fashion influencers also show the diverse styles of balletcore through different combinations.

How do you wear Balletcore?

City Walk

Keywords: work attire/exquisite commuting/ballet shoes

Fashion bloggers on Instagram are good at matching ballet shoes with various work attires, making ballet shoes more suitable for daily commuting occasions, and also making the originally neutral and capable workplace look to show off soft and delicate femininity.

Millennium College

Keywords: Comfortable and exquisite/ballet shoes/socks

Miu Miu, which has always followed a sophisticated, white, and rich style, combined ballet shoes with academic-style work clothes and low-waist, mini-style skirts in the 2022-23 autumn and winter series conference to create multiple sets of highly recognizable styles. Y2K and urban college-style Belletcore outfits.

The Millennium College craze has become popular among fashion groups. Miu Miu Millennium Style has covered all major media for a while, and star bloggers have been wearing it. During the 2023 Spring and Summer Paris Fashion Week, ballet shoes and college style styles swept the streets of Paris.

Bella Hadid, who has been named the "retro millennium outfit model", has also appeared in multiple Balletcore style looks in her recent private photos. She combines ballet flats, wrap tops and functional leggings with everyday casual clothing, representing the comfortable and refined feel of Balletcore.

Sophisticated social

Keywords: jewelry embellishment/party/ballet shoes

Fashion bloggers will also match ballet shoes with very feminine satin, sequins, jewelry and three-dimensional flower-decorated skirts to present an exquisite look suitable for social and party occasions, creating a unique and lazy look.

Balletcore Beauty

Keywords: girly/exquisite Barbie/ballet shoes

The image that is most integrated with the ballet temperament is the image of a sweet girl. Instagram blogger Hannah Ruth Zander is very good at matching retro pastoral shirts, mini culottes and ballet shoes, completely capturing the coquettish and delicate essence of Balletcore.

As a fashion icon, Jennie, a member of South Korea's top girl group, also responded to balletcore during her global tour. Her stage outfit uses a slim fit top instead of a classic wrap top, paired with piles of socks, ballet shoes and minis. The tulle dance skirt adds to the sweet atmosphere, and multiple sets of exquisite and sweet girls can copy the outfit templates.

Balletcore has always been a retro style

We call it a craze. Suitable for people's current mood, ideas and aesthetic pursuits. Ballet is a symbol of art itself, as well as a symbol of elegance and beauty of the times. The aesthetic trend it represents is a beautiful vision of women's self-image.

"Compatibility" is the core of Balletcore aesthetics.

What we should know is that the core of Ballecore is a fashion attitude influenced by ballet culture. That is to say, you can’t just pile ballet-style items on your body. You must also understand what kind of people it is more suitable for and what kind of ballet-style items will look better on you. Only when ballet-style items and people can interact with each other.

An elegant woman will have her own unique "ballet style" no matter what kind of items she wears. The core of fashion lies not in following trends but in how to express yourself. Finding a style that truly suits you is pursuing fashion. We must adapt to this continuous aesthetic craze, look at it with an open attitude, and at the same time find our own style and aesthetics.