Piero Tosi

Piero Tosi, born April 10, 1927 in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany, and died August 10, 2019 in Rome, was an Italian costume and set designer for theater and film. Piero Tosi began his career as a film costume designer in 1951, on Luchino Visconti's Bellissima, with whom he collaborated extensively, bo... More

Piero Tosi, born April 10, 1927 in Sesto Fiorentino, Tuscany, and died August 10, 2019 in Rome, was an Italian costume and set designer for theater and film. Piero Tosi began his career as a film costume designer in 1951, on Luchino Visconti's Bellissima, with whom he collaborated extensively, both on screen and on stage (operas and theater), until the latter's final film, The Innocent, in 1976. Among the other directors he worked with was Mauro Bolognini, with whom he also collaborated on several occasions. In total, he worked as a costume designer on forty-eight films, mostly Italian, but also on Franco-Italian co-productions and two French films (La Cage aux folles in 1978 and La Cage aux folles 3 in 1985). During his film career, which ended in 1993, he also worked as a set designer (four films) and an actor (one film, in a small role as a costume designer)—see filmography below. He also has several television credits. In the "Best Costume Design" category, he has won the Silver Ribbon eight times, the David di Donatello Award twice (plus a special award), and the BAFTA Award twice. He has also received five Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design. For several years, he directed the costume design course at the National Film School, located near the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.