TALES OF A TEACUP PANTHER: Turban Day

Born Winifred Shaughnessy Kimball of Salt Lake City Utah in 1897, Natacha Rambova was a remarkable woman that led an incredible life. Though she is mostly unknown today, her many talents had a major impact on film, fashion, history and pop culture.

Here are just a few facts about Ms. Rambova-

• The great-granddaughter of founding Mormon Church apostle, Heber C. Kimball
• The step-niece of America’s first interior decorator, Elsie de Wolfe
• The step-daughter and cosmetics heiress to perfumer Richard Hudnut
• Protégé and lover to Theodore Kosloff, and dancer in his Russian Imperial Ballet
• Hollywood set and costume designer responsible for bringing the Art Deco aesthetic to the silver screen
• Protégé and collaborator to Alla Nazimova
• Second wife to Rudolph Valentino [and love of his life]
• Couture designer, with upscale shop on 5th Avenue in New York City
• Influence to Erte
• Spiritualist, follower of Madame Blavatsky and George Gurdjieff and supporter of the Bollingen Foundation
• Author of astrology
• Published Egyptologist [collection donated to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts]
• Major antiquities collector [donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art]
• Made the turban a popular ladies’ accessory by implementing it as her trademark look