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Piero Tosi is an Italian costume designer. In the late 1940s, he studied at Florence's Accademia di Belle Arti, under the guidance of painter Ottone Rosai. At the age of 20, Tosi landed his first professional job as costume assistant on a stage production of the classic "Le chandelier". Soon after, Tosi met renowned stage and film director Luchino Visconti through school friend Franco Zeffirelli and worked as a costume assistant on Visconti's 1949 Florentine production of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. In 1951, Tosi moved to Rome and it was there, he began his film career, scouring the streets to find clothes for star Anna Magnani to wear in Visconti's neorealistic tale Bellissima (1952), the first of 12 films he made with the director. His second picture with Visconti, 1954's Senso,

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  • Piero Tosi is an Italian costume designer. In the late 1940s, he studied at Florence's Accademia di Belle Arti, under the guidance of painter Ottone Rosai. At the age of 20, Tosi landed his first professional job as costume assistant on a stage production of the classic "Le chandelier". Soon after, Tosi met renowned stage and film director Luchino Visconti through school friend Franco Zeffirelli and worked as a costume assistant on Visconti's 1949 Florentine production of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. In 1951, Tosi moved to Rome and it was there, he began his film career, scouring the streets to find clothes for star Anna Magnani to wear in Visconti's neorealistic tale Bellissima (1952), the first of 12 films he made with the director. His second picture with Visconti, 1954's Senso,
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  • Piero Tosi is an Italian costume designer. In the late 1940s, he studied at Florence's Accademia di Belle Arti, under the guidance of painter Ottone Rosai. At the age of 20, Tosi landed his first professional job as costume assistant on a stage production of the classic "Le chandelier". Soon after, Tosi met renowned stage and film director Luchino Visconti through school friend Franco Zeffirelli and worked as a costume assistant on Visconti's 1949 Florentine production of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. In 1951, Tosi moved to Rome and it was there, he began his film career, scouring the streets to find clothes for star Anna Magnani to wear in Visconti's neorealistic tale Bellissima (1952), the first of 12 films he made with the director. His second picture with Visconti, 1954's Senso, marked Tosi's period film debut and introduced audiences to his lush, sensual designs. Eager to create full emotional contexts for his characters, Tosi toiled for historical accuracy and the traditions of period and place. Tosi's screen career took off in the 1960s with a string of critically acclaimed films, including Visconti's Rocco and his Brothers (1960), The Leopard (1963) – for which he received his first Oscar nomination – and The Damned (1969); Vittorio De Sica's contemporary comedy Marriage Italian Style (1964); the Peter Sellers farce After the Fox (1966); and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea (1969), for which he designed ancient Greek apparel for diva Maria Callas. His close collaboration with directors and production designers helped achieve intimate, telling characterizations. Obsessed with the human form, Tosi worked to mold actor to costume as much as costume to actor. Sometimes, Tosi also designed the actor's hair and makeup, striving for a complete and authentic look. For Visconti's Death in Venice (1971), Tosi created almost 700 period costumes, representing a range of ages and types, and received his second Oscar nod for his efforts. Three more Oscar nominations followed: for the Visconti production Ludwig (1973), for the flashy, modern comedy La Cage Aux Folles (1979, shared with Ambra Danon and for Zeffirelli's opera adaptation La Traviata (1982). Tosi continued to design into the 2000s, and in 2003 received the Costume Designers Guild's inaugural President's Award. Today, he spends his time teaching his craft at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
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