Misty Copeland opens up about increasing diversity in the world of ballet and the “why” behind her ballet slipper emoji campaign. Misty Copeland remembers the first time she saw a brown ballet slipper ...

In March of 2019, Unicode, the organization responsible for standardizing the representation of text and emojis in modern software products for brands like Apple, released a set of emojis designed to ...

Finding the most sustainable and vegan shoe companies to support can sometimes be tough, especially as some brands contain mostly vegan materials until adding a touch of leather somewhere on the shoe.

Some may have tried. According to a much-repeated story, a group of ballet fanatics bought, cooked, and ate the slippers of the ballerina Marie Taglioni when she toured to St. Petersburg in 1842. But ...

Misty Copeland remembers the first time she saw a brown ballet slipper. She was 14 years old and performing in Debbie Allen’s iconic “Hot Chocolate Nutcracker” ballet. The brown slippers she saw among ...