About the Repetto.

Repetto started in a Paris kitchen in 1947. Rose Repetto's son, the dancer Roland Petit, kept coming home with sore
feet. She was a seamstress, so she made him a better shoe: the sole was stitched on inside out, then the whole thing was turned the right way round by hand.
The method is called cousu-retourné, and it gave dancers more give underfoot than anything available at the time. Repetto shoes are still made that way.Her workshop was a few streets from the Paris Opera.
Béjart, Nureyev and Baryshnikov all wore her shoes.
In 1956, Brigitte Bardot asked for a pair she could wear
in the street rather than on stage. Rose made the Cendrillon and dedicated it to her, and Bardot wore the red pair in Et Dieu créa la femme. The boutique she opened at 22
rue de la Paix in 1959 is still trading.BIRKENSTOCK has spent 250 years on a shoe built around the shape of the foot. Repetto has spent nearly 80 on one built around how a foot moves. Both start with anatomy.Repetto started in a Paris kitchen in 1947. Rose Repetto's son, the dancer Roland Petit, kept coming home with sore
feet. She was a seamstress, so she made him a better shoe: the sole was stitched on inside out, then the whole thing was turned the right way round by hand.
The method is called cousu-retourné, and it gave dancers more give underfoot than anything available at the time. Repetto shoes are still made that way.Her workshop was a few streets from the Paris Opera.
Béjart, Nureyev and Baryshnikov all wore her shoes. In 1956, Brigitte Bardot asked for a pair she could wear in the street rather than on stage.
Rose made the Cendrillon and dedicated it to her, and Bardot wore the red pair in Et Dieu créa la femme. The boutique she opened at 22 rue de la Paix in 1959 is still trading.BIRKENSTOCK has spent 250 years on a shoe built around the shape of the foot. Repetto has spent nearly 80 on one built around how a foot moves. Both start with anatomy.