The costume of the Temple Attendant designed by Leon Bakst for S Diaghilev’s famous Ballets Russes was conserved at the Zenzie Tinker Textile Conservation Ltd. in Brighton in 2008. The costume, now in a private collection of Olga and Ivor Mazure, was designed for a ballet entitled “Le Dieu Bleu” first performed in Paris in 1912 with a libretto by Jean Cockteau. When the costume arrived in the studio it was still structurally sound, but several elements within it required conservation to ensure its safety during an open ended program of temporary exhibitions. This included: full stitched support of the purple wool fabric, re-stitching and netting many of the metal braid decorations and solvent cleaning of the cream wool border of the tunic, where the heavy staining was beginning to cause chemical damage to the fabric.