Misty Copeland has become the first ballet dancer to appear on the cover of architecture digest  in more than three decades after she opened the doors to her Manhattan home

• Misty Copeland has become the first ballet dancer to appear on the cover of architecture digest  in more than three decades after she opened the doors to her Manhattan home.
• The 37-year-old, who was named the American Ballet Theater's principal dancer in 2015 -- the first Black woman to hold that role -- offered the magazine a rare glimpse inside her Upper West Side apartment as part of its forthcoming October issue.
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  According to Architectural Digest's editor-in-chief, Amy Astley, it is the first time a ballerina has appeared on the magazine's cover since Rudolf Nureyev, then director of the Paris Opera Ballet, in 1985. 

According to Architectural Digest's editor-in-chief, Amy Astley, it is the first time a ballerina has appeared on the magazine's cover since Rudolf Nureyev, then director of the Paris Opera Ballet, in 1985.