Natacha Rambova

Blood and sand.

And one of the reasons we included it is because Natasha Rambova, for whom pretty much no costumes exist, we wanted to tell her story.

And this was one of the pieces that helps us to tell her story because she was such an unusual and fascinating designer of both and kind of stylist of both set design and costume design as well.

So we've included that.

He went to Parsons, the Parsons School of Design, and when he was 20 years old, Irving Berlin hired him to do costumes on Broadway.

Natasha Rambova, who was the wife of Valentino, saw the costumes and inquired about whoever had done the costumes.

And then she swooped him up and took him to Hollywood, where he designed for Valentino for his last two movies, and he did the costumes in The Son of the Sheikh.

So he began as a designer for Cecil B. DeMille, and then he became the MGM designer.

Now,

his designs were eventually seen by Natasha Rambova.

Now, she was Rudolph Valentino's.

She loved his designs so much that she persuaded him to move to Hollywood.