{"id":1830,"date":"2026-06-06T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchrussia.com\/en\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2026-10-04T18:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:56:06","slug":"the-very-fashionable-bakst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchrussia.com\/en\/design\/the-very-fashionable-bakst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Very Fashionable Bakst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key figure of Russian Art Nouveau and the creator of the most celebrated \u2018Orientalist\u2019 ballets of the Ballets Russes, Lev (or L\u00e9on, as he was known in the West) Bakst united theatre and painting, transforming stage design into an art form in its own right. Moreover, his stage costumes sparked a revolution in fashion too, injecting it with Eastern silhouettes and Eastern chic. Having begun by designing costumes for his wife, in the 1910s Bakst turned seriously to creating clothing, and later to textile design. \u201cDress like a flower!\u201d he once wrote to his future wife. And we strongly recommend following that advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1319\" src=\"https:\/\/watchrussia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/luisa_casati_1922_wiki.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1319\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Luisa Casati in the &#8216;Queen of the Night&#8217; costume by L\u00e9on Bakst. \u00a9 Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1320\" src=\"https:\/\/watchrussia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/480524028_2806268852867090_6385286637011445443_n_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1320\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Luisa Casati in the &#8216;Queen of the Night&#8217; costume by L\u00e9on Bakst. \u00a9 Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year there is a particular reason to remember the artist L\u00e9on Bakst \u2014 he was born exactly 160 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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