In the first of our Art Deco Centenary profiles, we look at the Russian-French artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff – better known as Erté – who became credited as "the father of art deco". While the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In the 20th Century, ...

Is there a more costume-conscious city anywhere than here? Maybe not. We Crescent City residents are an army of self-styled designers, armed with pinking shears, sewing machines, box knives and hot ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, the French illustrator, fashion designer and set designer Erté achieved the kind of single-name fame usually reserved for stars of stage and song. Born Roman de Tirtoff in 1892, ...

An exhibit of original works by art deco icon Erté will include almost 170 items as well as other period pieces that characterized the movement of style and design. "Erté and the Era of Art Deco" will ...

The Schachner family with Erté and Eric Estorick at the Mill Basin Deli. Photo: Courtesy of the Schachner family In 1982, thieves broke into the Mill Basin Deli and escaped with the meat slicer, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL / ACCESSWIRE / May 6, 2019 / North Beach Art Gallery announces representation of a priceless, newly acquired ERTÉ ART COLLECTION. Actress, Elizabeth Taylor & Michael Jackson are ...

13 September 1975: At the age of five, Erté designed an evening dress for his mother and since then has dressed countless women Like a dandelion in a daisy-chain, I slotted in with the fashion editors ...

Image shown, above: detail from La Bergère de France and her Page, 1923. Design for the revue La Femme et le Diable, originally for L’Apollo Théâtre, Paris, and later at the Winter Gardens, New York.

A month or two after starting his first job at a Parisian fashion house in 1912, Romain de Tirtoff was given some advice. “Do whatever you want in life,” his boss told him, “except try to draw. You ...

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