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Barbara Karinska

1886 - 1983

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Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska (October 3, 1886 – October 18, 1983), was the Oscar-winning costumier of cinema, ballet, musical and dramatic theatre, lyric opera and ice spectacles. Over her 50-year career, that began at age 41, Karinska earned legendary status time and again through her continuing collaborations with stage designers including Christian Bérard, André Derain, Irene Sharaff, Raoul Pêne du Bois and Cecil Beaton; performer-producers Louis Jouvet and Sonja Henie; ballet producers René Blum, Colonel de Basil and Serge Denham. Her longest and most renown collaboration was with choreographer George Balanchine for more than seventy ballets — the first known to be “The Celebrated Popoff Porcelain,” a one act ballet for Nikita Balieff's 1929 La Chauve-Souris with music by Tchaikovsky for which Karinska executed the costumes design by Sergey Tchekhonin. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Karinska is the 91st most popular celebrity (up from 114th in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 745th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Celebrity.

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Among celebrities, Barbara Karinska ranks 91 out of 265. Before her are Ota Benga, Manuel Uribe, Lindow Man, Hana Brady, Genie, and Marita Lindahl. After her are Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Christine Keeler, Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Manolo el del bombo, Afghan Girl, and Kourtney Kardashian.

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Among people born in 1886, Barbara Karinska ranks 174. Before her are Georges Vantongerloo, Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, Stanisław Leśniewski, Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Peter Freuchen, and H.D.. After her are Erich Salomon, Edward Lindberg, Chester Conklin, Rudolf Belling, Catherine Desnitski, and Jun'ichi Kōuchi. Among people deceased in 1983, Barbara Karinska ranks 131. Before her are Fatma Begum, Adrian Boult, Herman Kahn, Werner Egk, José Iraragorri, and Gabrielle Roy. After her are Gunnar Thoroddsen, Anthony van Hoboken, Musine Kokalari, Antonin Magne, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, and Jorge Ibargüengoitia.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Barbara Karinska ranks 522 out of 1,365. Before her are Nikolay Gamaleya (1859), Alexander Trepov (1862), Inessa Kravets (1966), Manès Sperber (1905), Oles Honchar (1918), and Sergei Stanishev (1966). After her are Władysław Horodecki (1863), Vladimir Kozlov (1979), Valentina Grizodubova (1909), Maria Nikiforova (1885), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Yakov Malik (1906).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Ukraine

Among celebrities born in Ukraine, Barbara Karinska ranks 1. After her are Justine Pasek (1979), and Oxana Malaya (1983).

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