François-Noël Cherpin

François-Noël Cherpin is a French costume designer based in Portugal, whose imaginative designs have received critical acclaim both in the Netherlands and internationally. From 1988 to 1997, Cherpin was a dancer with Dutch National Ballet and during his dance career he created his first costume designs, starting with Ted Brandsen’s Motel Dances (1990). Since then, Cherpin has been Brandsen’s regular costume designer.

After ending his dance career, Cherpin went on to study fashion design, completing his training in 2002 at the École de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris. He has since designed costumes for a large number of Dutch National Ballet productions, including Carmen, Who Cares?, Paquita, Ballet Imperial, the full-length productions Coppelia and Mata Hari, and – most recently – Milena Sidorova’s Regnum (2022) and Tenzij (2024), and Brandsen’s The Chairman Dances (2023). Cherpin also works as a designer for various international ballet companies. In 2023, for example, he designed the costumes for choreographer Raimondo Rebeck’s new production of Cinderella for the Astana Opera Ballet in Kazakhstan and for Ted Brandsen’s Eroica Variations, a new work for the Polish National Ballet.

Last update: 10-06-2025