Palomo Spain will design the new costumes for the New York Ballet together with Raf Simons and Giles Deacon

The New York City Ballet fall gala once again relies on some great figures in international fashion design as a claim to open its season.

On this occasion, Alejandro Gómez Palomo from Cordoba, better known by his firm Palomo Spain, will be one of the three designers invited to dress the stars of the dance company, along with the Belgian designer Raf Simons and the English designer Giles Deacon.

The three creatives have been paired —by the grace of actress Sarah Jessica Parker, vice president of the New York City Ballet— with three choreographers to work together on the pieces that can be seen on September 28, during the 10th Fashion Gala of Fall.

The event has been held since 2012 and is considered the inaugural event of the New York cultural season.

This tenth edition will be a tribute to Sarah Jessica Parker herself, who promoted this charitable initiative that has contributed over the years to fundraising for the ballet.

On this occasion, Deacon is the first designer to repeat at the gala, while Palomo and Simons will join previous collaborators such as Thom Browne, Dries Van Noten, Sarah Burton, Iris Van Herpen, Carolina Herrera, Zuhair Murad, Zac Posen and Valentino. .

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Palomo Spain: “Many believed that our success was going to be a flash in the pan.

And it hasn't been like that."

Palomo Spain will work with choreographer Gianna Reisen on her third ballet for the company.

Marc Happel, costume director of the New York City Ballet, has revealed to the American media WWD that the choreographer and the designer have already decided on a scheme of 10 costumes of different colors, each encrusted with Swarovski crystals.

The challenge for Palomo Spain and the rest of the designers is to ensure that their designs do not end up overshadowing the work of the dancers, in the words of Marc Happel to the specialized fashion medium: "I think that on many occasions we find ourselves in situations in which it is true that the designs are too elaborate, so they can definitely distract attention, but I hope that this time it is not like that.

This gala has really always fought for the costumes created for the occasion to have a prominent role on stage”.

Between now and the end of September, he will be in charge of supervising the designers' work to adjust the costumes and allow for mobility on stage.

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“Many believed that our success was going to be the flower of a day.

And it hasn't been like that”, the Cordovan designer commented last May in an interview with this medium.

At just 30 years old and since he presented his first collection in 2016 in the

-programming of the official MBFW Madrid catwalk and won, in 2018, the Who's On Next award for young designers, awarded by the Spanish edition of

The Palomo Spain brand has managed to dress international names such as Beyoncé herself, who used one of her designs to present her newborn twins, Harry Styles, Miley Cyrus or Rita Ora.

Recently, he was also in charge of designing Chanel Terrero's wardrobe for her performance at the Eurovision Song Contest.

"Funny, controversial and a bit disturbing", as Daniel García, the director of

, defined him in his May letter on the cover of the designer's cover in the EL PAÍS men's fashion magazine, the truth is that Alejandro Gómez Palomo has managed to escape from labels and pigeonholes and show that dressing celebrities and being praised for their collections in half the world is not incompatible with appearing (and setting an example) in

familiar as

—recently canceled by RTVE—.

It will not be the first time that Palomo Spain has put its designs at the service of dance: in 2018, the Paris Opera premiered the piece

, by the Spanish choreographer Iván Pérez, a

ballet that questions traditional masculinity through the movement, and whose wardrobe was in charge of the designer, who dressed the dancers in extravagant outfits loaded with symbolism through sequins, ruffles or feathers and who, as Palomo himself recognized at the time to this newspaper, is one of the moments of his life that he remembers most fondly.

At least until next September 28.