{"id":363332,"date":"2026-10-03T00:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363332\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:40:32","slug":"sarah-jessica-parker-gets-ready-for-the-new-york-city-ballet-fall-fashion-gala-in-custom-simone-rocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363332\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Jessica Parker Gets Ready for the New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala in Custom Simone Rocha"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few people more closely entwined with the New York City Ballet<\/a>\u2019s annual Fall Fashion Gala than Sarah Jessica Parker. She conceived the event in 2012 as a meeting point between two creative disciplines\u2014inviting fashion designers to work directly with choreographers on costumes\u2014and, 14 years later, remains its founding chair. This year\u2019s program brought three new works to the David H. Koch Theater, including a pas de deux by NYCB resident choreographer Justin Peck<\/a>, dressed by Simone Rocha<\/a> and set to Gabriel Kahane\u2019s mirror\/sky (landslide), an original composition inspired by Stevie Nicks\u2019s \u201cLandslide.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Parker, the enduring thrill is in what these imaginative collaborations might bring to the ballet. \u201cThe possibility that tonight there will be new audiences there for a variety of reasons,\u201d she tells Vogue. \u201cBecause someone reached out to them and invited them for the first time. Because of Stevie Nicks. Because of Justin Peck.\u201d Over the years, she says, fashion and ballet have come to \u201cfit together so beautifully,\u201d drawing more eyes toward the company in the process.<\/p>\n

For the October 1 gala, Parker naturally turned to Simone Rocha herself. \u201cI always try to wear one of the designers,\u201d she says of her approach to dressing for the evening. \u201cMy goal is to wear something that the designer is excited about and that sometimes reflects the artistry that they\u2019ve put into conversations with the choreographer.\u201d Her verdict on the finished look was characteristically succinct: \u201cIt\u2019s Simone Rocha. Classic. Magical.\u201d (Across 14 years of Fall Fashion Galas, Parker has dressed the part opulently: capes, tutu-like silhouettes, monumental bows, and, last year, Iris van Herpen wings.)<\/p>\n

Rocha developed Parker\u2019s dress from an existing show piece, reworking its hand-laced, unraveling ribbons in a pale ballet pink intended as a nod to pointe shoes. The resulting gown was almost balletic in its own right: a sheer, delicately embroidered floor-length dress threaded with long satin ribbons that spilled vertically down the body. Against it, Parker\u2019s hair\u2014by Serge Normant\u2014was pulled into an intricate, ribbon-woven braid<\/a>, continuing that sense of movement from neckline to hem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are few people more closely entwined with the New York City Ballet\u2019s annual Fall Fashion Gala than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1117,9,11,10,6339,134911],"class_list":["post-363332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-dance","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sarah-jessica-parker","tag-simone-rocha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}