George Barbier illustrator, fashion designer and set and costume designer studied under Jean-Paul Laurens at the Academy of Fine Art in Paris. He contributed to various journals and fashion magazines in the early twentieth century and illustrated books from around 1913/14 most notably those on the ballet dancers Nijinsky and Karsavina. Many of his designs were published in the pochoir technique often using great artists-craftsmen like Jean saude and Francois Louis Schmied to reproduce his work.