About Swan Lake
Jasper Conran designed both the sets and costumes for Galina Samsova’s 1995 production of Swan Lake for the Scottish Ballet.
The result is a visual feast of costume and set design using stark contrasts to emphasise the stages of the story. In the first act, he presented the palace garden as an 18th century pastoral painting set in a leafy glade with the dancers dressed in the soft shades of silver white, lavender and lilac. In sharp contrast, for the lake scene in Act Two, he created a deadened world of magic and evil using branches and stones. Later in Act Three, Jasper Conran styled the principals in black and gold and guests and court in magenta and dark blue to contrast the stunning blue lines of the ballroom.
