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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Karinska has received more than 61,584 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Karinska is the 113th most popular celebrity, the 745th most popular biography from Ukraine and the most popular Ukrainian Celebrity.

Memorability Metrics

  • 62k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Barbara Karinska ranks 113 out of 265. Before her are Bep Voskuijl, Amparo Muñoz, Carol Morris, May-Louise Flodin, Ashrita Furman, and Miriam Stevenson. After her are Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Deborah Shelton, Tinka Kurti, Karandash, Toma Caragiu, and Jihadi John.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Barbara Karinska ranks 229. Before her are Bogoljub Jevtić, Eugene Burton Ely, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Philip K. Hitti, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, and Angela Piskernik. After her are Edward Lindberg, Hans von Blixen-Finecke, Francis Biddle, Kōsaku Yamada, Reinhold Schünzel, and Henry Lehrman. Among people deceased in 1983, Barbara Karinska ranks 178. Before her are Earl Tupper, James Jamerson, Paavo Johansson, José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Szolem Mandelbrojt, and Edward Lawry Norton. After her are Jānis Ivanovs, Clara Nunes, Ernst Degner, Odd Lundberg, Grigori Roshal, and Dora Gabe.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Barbara Karinska ranks 745 out of 1,365. Before her are Dmitry Polyansky (1917), Yuriy Fedkovych (1834), Klara Luchko (1925), Valeriy Porkujan (1944), Grisha Filipov (1919), and Diana Karenne (1897). After her are Milena Rudnytska (1892), Yekaterina Zelenko (1916), Vladimir Shainsky (1925), Anatol Rapoport (1911), Hélène Sparrow (1891), and Maurice Goldhaber (1911).

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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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