Fashion Statement: Erté
“It’s almost a duty to keep your body svelte—for other people’s sake.”
—Erté, a Russian artist who illustrated 250 covers for Harper’s Bazaar magazine from 1915 to 1936, and designed sets and costumes for Hollywood films and movie stars, and was born on this day in 1892. The artist lived to be 97 years old and exercised every day without fail: 15 minutes after he woke up and five minutes before dinnertime. In his 1975 biography, Things I Remember, he wrote that he believed it was the duty of every person to “make himself as attractive as possible,” and that while “not many of us are born beautiful,” clothing could transform people into “things of beauty or ugliness.”
The quote above comes from an interview in a 1982 issue of Time magazine. To read more fabulous Fashion Statements, click here.
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