691) Natacha Rambova

Natacha Rambova (born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy; 1897 – 1966). American film costume designer and set designer, and occasional actress who was active in Hollywood in the 1920s. In her later life, she abandoned design to pursue other interests, specifically Egyptology, a subject on which she became a published scholar in the 1950s.
Born into a prominent Mormon family in Salt Lake City, Rambova was raised in San Francisco and educated in England before beginning her career as a dancer, performing under Russian ballet choreographer Theodore Kosloff in New York City. She relocated to Los Angeles at age 19, where she became an established costume designer for Hollywood film productions. It was there she became acquainted with actor Rudolph Valentino, with whom she had a two-year marriage from 1923 to 1925.
Rambova has been noted by fashion and art historians for her unique costume designs that drew on and synthesized a variety of influences, as well as her dedication to historical accuracy in crafting them. Academics have also cited her interpretive contributions to the field of Egyptology as significant.

- "Natacha was a stunning beauty. She kept her auburn hair long, parted in the middle, wrapped and tied with turbans and headbands." http://ingegregusch.blogspot.com/…/natacha-rambova-portrait…

- "She is a tall thin person who wears a handsome turban over braided coils of red-brown hair." https://allaboutrudy.org/tag/natacha-rambova/page/9/

Detail from the portrait of Natasha Rambova by Svetoslav Roerich, 1926,