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The fashion and stage designer known as Erté was born in
1892 to a wealthy family in St. Petersburg , Russia by the birth
name Romain de Tirtoff, and he may be the epitome of flamboyance
not to mention longevity in the 20th century design. From an early
age, Erté did not wish to follow his father, who was an
Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, into the military. Erté
showed extraordinary talent for design, creating his first costume
at the age of 5 and subsequently moving to Paris in 1912 at the
age of 18. There, he found work immediately as a fashion illustrator
and learned the art of couture working with Parisian designer
Paul Poiret, visualizing how clothes could affect the look of
the female body.
Erté as a Young
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He was hired by the magazine Harper's Bazaar
where his flamboyant fashion designs of elaborately plumed hats
and long, flowing dresses perfectly captured the emerging design
aesthetic of the Art
Deco period. He continued working at Harper's Bazaar for 22
years, creating over 200 magazine covers for the publication in
his distinctive style. While there, he was also approached to
design stage sets and costumes for the girls of the famous Folies-Bergère
and at the George White's Scandals Club in New York City. He also
worked in the 1920s and 1930s on film costume design at the MGM
Studios in Hollywood as well as opera and theatrical productions,
any venue where he could indulge his eye and appreciation for
exotic human forms that were scandalously costumed and exuding
the sexual power of the female body. Americans were exposed to
his work through some extravagant designs he did for productions
at Radio City Music Hall in New York. He lavishly clothed many
of the most famous women of the day in theater, film, and politics
including Lillian Gish, Marion Davies, Mata Hari, Joan Crawford,
Norma Shearer, and Anna Pavlova.
The flamboyance of Erté's
designs declined in popularity with the advent of World War
II, and after the war citizens had more basic needs that first
needed to be fulfilled. However, Erté underwent a rebirth
of sorts in the 1960s following a Paris exhibition of his work,
and he created important series of limited edition lithographs
and sculpture which evidenced the styles for which he had become
so well known in the 20s and 30s. Early Erté print work
in the 1970s was produced by the Circle Fine Art Corporation
and later by Chalk & Vermilion. Erté was productive
well into his 90s, even producing new designs and graphics just
before he died in 1990 at the age of 98. His designs are in
many of the major museums of the world including the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution,
and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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