Celebrating Popular Culture: Entertainment

The Ballet Russe (Russian Ballet) in Paris exile

inspired fanciful Orientalism,

 a case of pop culture affecting design

in interiors, clothing and textile prints.

Leon Bakst did the costumes for Scheherazade and other ballets.

Hermes Scarf Ballet Russe

The Tale of Scheherazade and the 1001 Nights

was especially romantic.

Egyptian dress in fashion plate by 

Barbier for Paul Poiret

Print from a mid-century blouse

inspiring an Arabian nights theme that lasted for years.

Magic carpets and Minarets

Popular culture continued to influence print design.

TV and cowboy shows in a tea towel

Davy Crockett--

These prints can be

classified as conversation prints or novelty prints

Little Abner licensed comics print---

Daisy Mae

The dachshund fad of the fifties and sixties

Beatles from the 1960s