Erte's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color by Erte

Erte's Theatrical Costumes in Full Color by Erte

-All-around beautiful and worth picking up for anyone interested in fashion, theatre, theatrical costuming, and art.- --Looking for a Good Book
-This book is an absolute delight for any fan of costume design history, and it is sure to inspire budding theatrical designers. Brilliant and colorful.- -- bookaddiction
A fan-bearing slave girl, a worshipper of Horus, the wife of a Russian boyar, Ceres, a mermaid, and a gypsy dancer are among the 49 theatrical costumes selected for this tribute to the work of the Russian-born, Paris-bred designer Erte (Romain de Tirtoff). Spanning the years 1911 to 1975, these extravagant, imaginative designs include costumes for well-known personalities, Folies-Bergere shows, editions of George White's Scandals, and ballets.
Many exotic and historical fashions include Egyptian, Chinese, Persian, Japanese, Russian, and French styles. The lavish, flowing costumes are complemented by different colors to create different moods: deep, lustrous purples, reds, and browns for dynamic, vibrant figures; ochre, sienna, orange, and beige for more formal characters; and pale blue, lavenders, greens, grays, and blacks for people of mystery and hidden powers. As dazzling as Erte's color graphics and as witty as his fashion designs, this compilation merits the attention of costume designers, artists, theater people, costume aficionados, and all who appreciate the treatment of costume design as a fine art.

Erte (Romain de Tirtoff, 1892-1990), a Russian-born, Paris-bred artist, is regarded as one of the most important fashion and theater designers of the twentieth century. When he began producing lithographs in 1968, art aficionados realized he had discovered yet another media that fit his amazing abilities.