{"id":363834,"date":"2026-10-03T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363834\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:24:14","slug":"at-the-new-york-city-ballet-fall-fashion-gala-stevie-nicks-and-sarah-jessica-parker-brought-down-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/363834\/","title":{"rendered":"At the New York City Ballet Fall Fashion Gala, Stevie Nicks and Sarah Jessica Parker Brought Down the House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday night\u2019s \u201cextraordinary\u201d affair raised $3.45 million for the company and began even before the curtain rose on a trio of world premieres: honorary gala chair Stevie Nicks made a rare red carpet appearance (her first since the Met Gala) alongside Parker. After effectively shutting down the step-and-repeat\u2014Parker in a balletic, hand-painted custom tulle and ribbon gown<\/a> by Simone Rocha, and Nicks in a mauve Morgane Le Fay frock and flower crown\u2014the duo joined Matthew Broderick, Nicole Ari Parker, Julia Fox, and Olivia Rodrigo for the night\u2019s performances in David H. Koch Theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opening remarks from New York City Ballet Board Chair Diana Taylor gave way to the world premiere of Alysa Pires\u2019 Auspicy: a regal ensemble performance whose climax\u2014an arresting solo performed by principal dancer Unity Phelan\u2014evoked a phoenix rising. It was a \u201cromantic\u201d image, to hear Dutch fashion designer Rolf Snoeren tell it, one reinforced by Phelan\u2019s elaborately gilded coat and the ensemble\u2019s metallic catsuits from Snoeren and Viktor Horsting\u2019s label Viktor&Rolf.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For all its sheen, the Fall Fashion Gala commission is a deceptively challenging one. Designers accustomed to outfitting the body for the motions of the everyday (even one as spectacular as this) must, with the help of the New York City Ballet costume shop and its director Marc Happel, adapt their thinking and execution to the needs of the company\u2019s elite artist-athletes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rocha, who created Parker\u2019s look for the occasion and the costumes for Justin Peck\u2019s Mirror\/Sky, met the twin challenge with aplomb. \u201cThe physicality of the dancers was so important to me,\u201d the Irish designer told Vogue of her approach to costuming Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia for their pas de deux. \u201cThey were so intertwined, they almost moved as one.\u201d<\/p>\n

After walking the red carpet together, the principal dancers and married couple<\/a> swapped black tie for backstage. Avid followers of Justin Peck may have come to expect ebullient, high-octane works from the ballet company\u2019s Tony Award-winning Resident Choreographer, but Mirror\/Sky represented a change of pace. Their performance, set to an adaptation of Nicks\u2019 Landslide by Gabriel Kahane and Haley Heynderickx, settled the night\u2019s energy with the gentle soulfulness of Tiler Peck and Mejia\u2019s every break and embrace, their characters\u2019 courtship embodied by the ruffles, rosebuds, and blooms of Rocha\u2019s costuming. \u201cIt was the first time I was able to really trust the craft, not only of what I\u2019ve built over the past fifteen-plus years, but also of Tiler and Roman and their performance as dancers,\u201d the choreographer told Vogue. \u201cIt has qualities of what\u2019s fleeting in life, so I think it speaks to ballet in this beautiful way.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday night\u2019s \u201cextraordinary\u201d affair raised $3.45 million for the company and began even before the curtain rose on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,2901],"class_list":["post-363834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-vogue-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363834","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=363834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}