Medium: Silk velvet, silk satin, metallic, and cotton

Date: 1910

Country: Russia

Credit: Museum purchase

Léon Bakst's costume for a Young Man was created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes 1910 production of 'Schéhérazade'. The costumes and sets for 'Schéhérazade' were pivotal in launching a vogue for Orientalist style. As Cecil Beaton recalled: “A fashion world that had been dominated by corsets, lace, feathers, and pastel shades soon found itself in a city that overnight had become a seraglio of vivid colours, harem skirts, beads, fringes, and voluptuousness . . . all of which could be traced back to Bakst.”

Object Number: 2014.1.1