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,