ABSTRACT
On 4 July 1921, Paris’s Le Petit bleu published an article entitled “Enough naked men!,” signed by a critic with the English name “Pick me up,” whose most proximate object of ridicule was the 6 June premiere of the Ballets Suedois’s VHomme et son desir [Man and His Desire]. With Paul Claudel’s libretto and Darius Milhaud’s music seeming to go unnoticed, it was Jean Borlin’s costuming, or, as the reviewer might express it, the lack thereof, that caught his eye.
