After its premiere, the impact of this ballet was profound. What began as a simple enterprise, the Russian Seasons, transformed into the leading European ballet troupe. Parisian fashionistas, emulating the characters of "Scheherazade," immediately donned harem pants, turbans, and long beads — the ballet defined the fashion of the 1910s, and Bakst himself later designed for Vogue magazine. But most importantly, it was "Scheherazade" that, in the collective consciousness of Europeans, equated "Russian" with "ballet": the best ballet, the true ballet, henceforth was seen by all as distinctly Russian.