Madensky Square
“Why couldn’t he have kept his glamorous ballerinas and exotic designers in St Petersburg? Why bring them to Europe to torture poor hardworking dressmakers like me?
At ten o’clock this morning, Frau Hutte-Klopstock, the wife of the City Parks Superintendent, handed me a magazine and said she wanted to look like Karsavina in The Firebird.
‘Something diaphanous, I thought,’ she said. ‘Shimmering… in flame or orange.’ Frau Hutte-Klopstock is healthy, she is muscular; she is sportif and athl...etic. A small glacier in the High Tatras has been named after her and of this one must be glad. But, Oh God! Karsavina!
I led her into the fitting room where her double, a wire dummy padded by Nini with three whole packets of wadding, confronted her, but without dimming her ardour.
‘My sister saw them in Paris – the Ballets Russes. She says they were unbelievable – the exoticism, the colour!MoreLess
At ten o’clock this morning, Frau Hutte-Klopstock, the wife of the City Parks Superintendent, handed me a magazine and said she wanted to look like Karsavina in The Firebird.
‘Something diaphanous, I thought,’ she said. ‘Shimmering… in flame or orange.’ Frau Hutte-Klopstock is healthy, she is muscular; she is sportif and athl...etic. A small glacier in the High Tatras has been named after her and of this one must be glad. But, Oh God! Karsavina!
I led her into the fitting room where her double, a wire dummy padded by Nini with three whole packets of wadding, confronted her, but without dimming her ardour.
‘My sister saw them in Paris – the Ballets Russes. She says they were unbelievable – the exoticism, the colour!MoreLess
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