Capezio, a nearly 140-year-old family-owned dancewear brand based in Totowa, has been acquired by Argand Partners.

Founded in 1887, Capezio designs and manufactures premium and highly technical footwear, apparel, and accessories that ...

Argand Partners, LP, the New York-based middle-market private equity firm with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and ...

After over a century of family ownership, the dancewear company Capezio is changing hands. Argand Partners LP, a New ...

Ballet flats are making way for their sportier younger sister: ballet sneakers. This nostalgic take on dance-inspired footwear is exactly what it sounds like, a hybrid of ballet flats and sneakers.

Argand Partners said it plans to “modernize” the dancewear brand through licensing agreements and product innovation.

The slip-on, elastic Yanka model most resembles an actual ballet shoe with its low-rise tongue, recycled satin finish and soft colors, including a blushy pink that evokes a pointe shoe.

But now the grande dame has decided to hang up her ballet shoes after a 72 year career. BBC Scotland News joined her last class in the Stockbridge area of the city, where her students said it was ...

concoction of comfort and grace. As someone who has always preferred dainty shoe silhouettes (think: Mary Janes, ballet flats, and loafers) to tennis shoes, I was immediately drawn to the ballet ...

While the ballet flat enjoyed huge favour in the Noughties (see the era’s It-girls Alexa Chung and Sienna Miller), the shoe’s pivot from ballet essential to fashion staple has its roots in the ...