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To boost the extravagance, Reisen and Palomo decided to encrust each pinstripe with Swarovski crystals, with around 800,000 gems used in total. His clothes had a romantic Wall Street vibe that Reisen was attracted to, and she felt that these “angular shapes could translate well to the ballet stage,” she explained in the program’s opening video. For “Play Time,” Reisen collaborated directly with Spanish menswear designer Alejandro Gómez Palomo, inspired by his genderless, deconstructed suit forms. In the accompanying film to her most recent album, 2019’s When I Get Home, she included hypnotic sequences of Black dancers, who assume sacred geometries as they moved through different structural spaces, proposing the possibility that through communal motion, people can create new worlds.Īll the more fitting for Solange, a sartorial icon, was that this particular evening was dedicated to the merging of fashion and dance as with every annual Fall Fashion Gala, the NYCB tapped high profile designers for inventive costuming. These architecture-centering works are a natural extension of Solange’s vision as a music video director. In addition to her 2017 A Seat at the Table showcase at the Guggenheim Museum and 2020’s Orion’s Rise show at the Sydney Opera House, she also staged performances at the Getty Museum, the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. Though the night marked a new achievement for Solange-who is now the second Black woman to have a score commissioned by the NYCB, after Lido Pimienta in 2021-it’s not the first time the multidisciplinary artist has worked with a fine art institution.