Piero Tosi
According to Italian media reports, piero Tosi, a well-known film costume designer, died in Rome on August 10 at the age of 92. Toshi has designed costumes for classic films such as Leopard and Venice, and has also been nominated for five Oscars, and won the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013.
Tossi's dress for Claudia Cardina, the heroine of Leopard, is beautiful
A beautiful teenager in a turtleneck striped shirt in "Soul Break Venice"
Piero Tosi is known for designing ancient costumes, he has long-term cooperation with the famous Italian director Visconti, in addition to "Leopard" and "Soul Break Venice", "Rocco Brothers", "White Night", "Outsider", "Little Beauty", "Portrait of the Family", "Innocent", "Sengoku Demon", "Ludwig" and "Nazi Mania" and other Visconti works, he can also see his costumes. The two worked together 15 times, and Piero Tosi was Visconti's uncompromising royal costume design.
Toshi (first from left) and Visconti (first from right) on the set of Soul Break Venice
Born on 10 April 1927 in Florence, Italy, Piero Tosi worked as a costume design assistant in a troupe after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 1949, Visconti rehearsed Shakespeare's play Troy Ross and Crisida in Florence, and the stage design was franco Zephyrelli, who later became a major director and died not long ago, and it was he who invited Tosy to be his assistant and made him acquainted with Visconti. Toshi's costumes for the show were so satisfying to the director that he was soon invited to design costumes for Visconti's new film Little Beauty, which opened the way to the screen.
Romie Schneider wears a dress designed by Toshi in Ludwig
In 1963, Tosi was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume for his exquisite costume in the film Leopard, but lost to the Italian veteran Vittorio Nino Novarese, who was twenty years older than him, for Cleopatra. In the 1970s, he was nominated for oscars twice for Venice and Ludwig, but lost to the Russian court films Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and The Sting (1973). In 1980, his modern costume for the French gay comedy La Cage Aux Folles (1978) won the Oscar jury again, but lost out to the stage costume in the song and dance film All That Jazz (1979). In 1983, Tosi hit the Oscars for the fifth time with La Traviata (1983), eventually losing out to the epic blockbuster Gandhi.
The costumes of the comedy "A Cage of Silly Birds" are modern
On November 16, 2013, at the age of 86, he finally won an Oscar for a little golden man , the Lifetime Achievement Award, but unfortunately, due to his advanced age, he could not fly to the Los Angeles awards site, so he had to entrust the Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, who had worked with him more than a dozen times, to take over the little golden man for him. Ann Roth ( The British Patient ) , a famous American film costume designer who presented the award, praised Tosi as "the greatest film costume design in the world", and Tosi became the first costume designer in film history to win the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award.
Charlotte Lampling's memorable outfit in Midnight Gatekeeper is also written by Tosy
Tosi's design is original and historical. When he first designed costumes for "Leopard", which is set in Italy in 1860, he specially found some centuries-old cloth to make several dresses for the heroine Claudia Cardina in order to seek a sense of the times. In this regard, he once said: "The actor's costume must reflect the characters wearing these costumes themselves, but also reflect their lives." Therefore, understanding the historical background of films and studying related traditions is especially important for those of us who make film costumes. ”