Zoom in on our Sugar Plum Fairy costume 🔍🧚‍♀️ Nearly all of our Sugar Plum Fairy costume embellishments are hand-sewn, including the over 400 beads and rhinestones on the headpiece. Building an entire Sugar Plum Fairy costume from scratch would take one costume artisan two (2) full weeks to complete! Costumes for Gerard Charles' THE NUTCRACKER were designed by Lynn Holbrook, Aimee J. Coleman, and Rebecca Baygents Turk. Dancer Grace-Anne Powers #BalletMet #TheNutcracker | BalletMet

Behind every Sugar Plum Fairy tutu is hours of meticulous craftsmanship 🩰✨ Wardrobe Manager, @carriecmiami, shares the process of completely remaking this iconic costume from the original design - an approximately 80-hour undertaking, much of it done by hand. From reconstructing the structure to rebuilding layers and details, each element is carefully crafted to honor the original design by @toledox2 while ensuring it’s stage-ready for today’s dancers. It’s unseen work that keeps the magic time