Erte

Erté , 1892-1990, French designer and illustrator, b. St. Petersburg as Romain de Tirtoff. He moved to France and worked for a time sketching for Paul Poiret and designing opera and theater costumes. Between 1914 and the 1930s he created many magazine covers for Harper's Bazaar. In the United States he worked for Flo Ziegfeld and designed costumes for the film Ben Hur (1959). Influenced by Indian miniatures, his designs, illustrations, and drawings were sophisticated and highly stylized.

Erté [né Romain de Tirtoff] (1892–1990), designer. The internationally acclaimed fashion and stage designer was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and studied painting in his native country and in Paris. He started his career in theatrical scenic and costume design in 1914, and by the 1920s he was working in America for Florenz Ziegfeld and George White. Erté's costumes for several editions of the George White's Scandals were particularly famous.

Erté ( Romain de Tertoff) (1892–1990). Russian-born French designer, painter, and sculptor. He was born in St Petersburg into an aristocratic family and in 1912 moved to Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian. Erté was best known for his fashion illustrations (particularly for the American magazine Harper's Bazaar) and for his costume and set designs for theatre, cabaret, opera, ballet, and cinema (he designed costumes for Mata Hari among other celebrities). However, he also painted, and in the 1960s he made lithographs and sculptures of sheet metal.