Costumes of the Ballets Russes

The Ballets Russes were a perfect firestorm of creative talent and phantasmagory from 1909-1929. Certified weirdo and impresario Sergei Diaghilev brought together some of the greatest minds and bodies of a generation and the resulting iconoclastic beauty is inspiring to this day. Léon Bakst, Vaslav Nijinski, Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova, George Balanchine, Léonide Massine, Henri Matisse...

There's a fantastic introduction (with archival footage!) narrated by Tilda Swinton, courtesy of the National Gallery of Art: https://vimeo.com/291522435