Ruth Dunbar. Influence of Bakst’s art upon fashions

Influence of Bakst's Art upon Fashions: Great Russian Scenic Artist and Costumer has much to Answer
Ruth Dunbar
Disturbances in both politics and arts can once in a while affect fashion, but whenever has a single man — such as Léon Bakst — produced such a substantial prolonged impact?
The passion for Bakst via Les Ballets Russes flooded Paris, and the wave reached America and, arguably, the other parts of the world as well. Despite the war that left is bloody footprint on the world and military imprint on the world of fashion, Bakst remains invincible.
It is impossible to erase from the memory of fashion the magnificent colors of the maestro, and patterns and templates will never get back to their regular shapes after they followed him all the way to his audacious lines.
Paris and London lost their heads, surrendering their hearts to Les Ballets Russes, which swept them as the Tatar invasion with the power of its wild shapes and colors, which acquired harmony under Léon Bakst’s brush — his sparkling fantasies weaved royal clothes for the luxury productions.
When Bakst created the costume for Tsaritsa Thamar he might have constantly contemplated that the clothes of the ruthless barbarian ruler, who looks out her window seeking new victims, with her royal thirst for blood, will undoubtedly become a fashionable outfit for going to the opera in 1916. Bakst’s creations never take long to appear in shop windows. Will Bakst, looking at the audience from the box, recognize his purple velvet cape decorated with diamonds and ermine?