Creation, prices, retouching, cleaning all the secrets of the costumes of "Dance with the stars"

"Dance with the stars" would be nothing without the sumptuous costumes worn by celebrities and dancers.Every Friday evening is a real parade on the parquet floor of the TF1 competition.Behind the scenes, Pierre Annez de Taboada ensures that everything is perfect.This former professional dancer is creator of the costumes of scenes and ornaments for the cabarets.He notably worked in the Moulin Rouge, Latin Paradise or the Alcazar.While season 11 of the program will close in two weeks, the 59-year-old costume chef has agreed to reveal some of the costume secrets to us.

LE FIGARO.- When are you starting to work on the costumes of "Dance with the stars"? Pierre Annez de Taboada. - Un mois avant la première émission, je rencontre les couples afin de prendre leurs mensurations complètes de haut en bas.This is my first contact with celebrities and dancers.This meeting is very important in order to make their costumes or make purchases if there is a need but it is also intimate because I know everything about their bodies.

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Comment procédez-vous à la création d’une robe?La production me transmet les informations sur les danses effectuées par les couples.She also communicates the staging, the scenography, the codes of the numbers carried out, the type of decor, the lights, stylistic references...We make a mix of all this information to make the costumes best suited to numbers.

Quels sont les différents types de tenues?Le type de tenue dépend du type de danse.There are standard dances, waltz, tango, Quickstep and Fox-Trot, for which long dresses for women and more dressed outfits for men.And there are the Latin dances, the cha-cha, the pasoble, the jive, the rumba and the samba, everything that is very dynamic, where you need dresses that move a lot, with fringes, pearls.

Qui crée les costumes?Je dessine tous les costumes.Given the number of things I have to do, I make a simple sketch representing the lines of the costume that I then give to the workshop.For ten years that "dance with the stars" has existed, we have raised a stock of things that we have made.Given the cost represented by the creation of a costume, we do not put them only once provided that it has not been worn too often or recently.

Tous les costumes sont-ils issus de votre atelier?Sur une saison, nous fabriquons entièrement 50 % des costumes de «Danse avec les stars», 30 à 40 % proviennent du stock et 10% de la version britannique du concours intitulée «Strictly Come Dancing».These are large costume producers and they provide many countries.

Combien coûte l’achat d’une robe?Les plus simples vont de 800 à 1000 euros, les latines oscillent entre 1000 et 1800 euros et pour les robes très décorées, ça peut aller jusqu’à 4000 euros.

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Quand effectuez-vous les essayages des costumes?La veille de l’émission, tous les couples répètent sur le plateau.So we take the opportunity to make them try their costume.If it is a costume from the stock, we make the touch -up.If it is a creation, we complete the manufacturing.The timing is super short to do everything all the more since it happens that there is a lot of touch -ups to bring on a stock costume which sometimes takes us half the time that if we manufactured it.

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Combien de temps faut-il pour créer un costume?Ça dépend mais en général, il faut entre 4 à 5 jours pour qu’un costume soit finalisé.The first concern is to have the right fabric.I have bases - black, white...- But I cannot store thousands of fabrics, lots of different colors.So I order wholesalers - suppliers of great theaters - who put between 24 to 48 hours to deliver me.This is why I need production to communicate the information to me one week before for Monday or even Friday or Saturday, we can start working on costumes.

Quels sont les impératifs pour la création d’un costume? Le premier impératif est le confort.Everyone must be able to dance without being embarrassed in their movements.We also take care of solidity since it is important not only a cracking outfit.In ten years, I never had an accident because a costume had been badly done.All dresses, both Latin and standards, are solidarized with a body.So you can never see women's bellies even if they have their heads downstairs.For men, the shirts are also solidized but with panties to prevent the shirt from pants.It often surprises our male personalities the first time we put that.And then they find it really good.

Qui lave les costumes?On lave tous les costumes nous-mêmes.All fabrics are washable and we have washing machines on site.Studio 217 then turns into a pressing.The outfits are cleaned the day after the premium.Sometimes on Friday evening, the dressing team begins to wash things otherwise, we take care of it on Saturday.Everything is washed very quickly to avoid leaving perspiration in the clothes.

D’où proviennent les chaussures? On a un partenariat avec un magasin parisien qui nous fournit les chaussures pour les hommes et les femmes.We also have a big stock.These are specific shoes to dance with fine and flexible soles.And when you need somewhat special shoes, we're going to buy them in the trade.

Combien de personnes travaillent avec vous?On est dix en tout.Some are specialized for women and others for humans because they are two different trades.The men's cup is called the tailor and that of women, the blur.At the workshop, which is on the 1st floor of studio 217, a person performs the patronage and the cut of the fabric.We have hundreds of bosses.Others then proceed to the assembly, that is to say assemble the different parts that have been cut.I sometimes get my hand to the dough for decoration, put the rhinestones on the dresses because there are quite a bit, it's a little bit of business (laughs).

Qu’adviennent ces costumes une fois le tournage terminé? Les costumes ne resservent pas en dehors de «Danse avec les stars».So every season, everything is put in boxes.Between the outfits and shoes of all the dancers but also those of the extras and additional dancers, we have an impressive stock, or about 160 boxes!The slightly more delicate dresses, I store them elsewhere so that they are suspended otherwise everything is folded in the boxes, labeled, listed...It’s a real move every time.

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