Studying the biography of creative countrymen is not only my little hobby, but the world of my knowledge, discoveries. So recently I learned that for the first time, when the Academy Award in 1949 introduced the nomination "Best Costume", the award was given to the fashion designer Varvara Karinskaya. An interesting point: a woman was born in Kharkov, but the creative path of the costume designer began far beyond her native country.
Below, I collected brief episodes from the biography of Barbara Karinska. And now, I'm sure more people will know about "our" talented countrywoman.
Varvara Karinskaya was born in 1886 to the family of a well-known local businessman who loved his city and allocated huge savings for the construction of the Annunciation Cathedral. In her native Kharkov she first discovered in herself a talent for embroidery, needlework and drawing. After graduating from high school, the girl entered Kharkov University with a degree in law,.
In 1915, after the wedding with a lawyer Nikolai Karinsky, the newly-made family moved from Kharkov to Moscow. Creates his atelier. And after the revolution, already being in a second marriage, the fashion designer emigrates abroad.
Germany, France, several years in London, and a little later - America, where she already has to live forever. It is in this country that Varvara Karinskaya, collaborating with Matis, Dali and many other cult artists,.
For a long time, Varvara Karinskaya worked with the New York City Ballet, participated in 75 productions, being a stylist. So, for example, the ballet tutu "powderpuff" created by her in the 50s became very popular in the world ballet.
One of the stages of the creative path of Varvara Karinskaya was marked for her by cooperation with Hollywood films and French films. At the age of 63, the fashion designer becomes an Oscar winner for her costumes for the film "Jeanne d'Arc" with the legendary Ingrid Bergman in the lead role. In 1953, the famous Kharkov woman became the nominee for the same prize for the film "Hans Christian Anderson".
From various sources, there is information that Varvara Karinskaya has developed stage costumes for such world stars as Marlene Dietrich and Vivien Leigh (the performer of the role of Scartlett from the film Gone With the Wind).
In the name of Varvara Karinska one of the streets in her native Kharkov was named, and also in 2005 a memorial plaque was opened in her honor in the house on Pushkinskaya, where the childhood of Karinskaya. The famous fashion designer died before she was three years old, at the age of 97 years.
It should be noted that the biography of Varvara Karinskaya is not the only inspiring story of the success of our fellow countrymen, who managed to gain recognition worldwide. In my next publications I will tell you the impressive stories of women who conquered Hollywood in spite of all the life difficulties associated with emigration, language barriers and persecutions in their homeland.
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