Veronica Horwell on the ballet company that redefined fashionThe story conventionally goes that Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes landed with a crash on the Paris stage in 1909 and changed the style of everything forthwith: music, ballet and its choreography, art, decor and especially fashion. With Diaghilev the impresario, Stravinsky's dissonances, Nijinsky's leaps and Bakst's designs, modernity got started. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM on November 19, 2010