For the last FASHION DIALOGUE of the year, Matteo Augello will be joined by Laura Nobile, Coordinator of Tirelli Costumi, Italy’s most awarded costume house, to celebrate its 60th anniversary.
Umberto Tirelli opened his costume atelier in Rome in 1964, with only two sewing machines, five seamstresses, a milliner, a secretary and a driver-warehouseman. In the first year, Tirelli Costumi made the costumes designed by Ferdinand Scarfiotti for the production of “The Cherry Orchard” directed by Luchino Visconti, and would go on to make the costumes of almost all the films by Luchino Visconti with the designs of Piero Tosi.
Tirelli Costumi is a world-renowned costume house, whose creations won 17 Academy Awards. These include “Casanova” (1976, dir. Federico Fellini), designed by Danilo Donati; “Amadeus” (1984, dir. Milos Forman), designed by Teodor Pistek; “the Age of Innocence” (1993, dir. Martin Scorsese), designed by Gabriella Pescucci; and “Marie Antoinette” (2006, dir. Sofia Coppola), designed by Milena Canonero. Since the death of its founder Umberto Tirelli in 1990, the company has been led his friends and heirs, under the guidance of CEO Dino Trappetti.
Laura Nobile has been involved in the company management for many years and has become Trappetti’s right hand. In this role, she has also contributed to exhibitions in Italy and abroad on the history of company. Since 2008, Nobile has been serving as Coordinator: her work starts from the first contact with the costume designer and continues with the supervision of the project until its conclusion.
The event will take place on Tuesday 5th November at 6.30pm and will last approximately one hour, followed by Q&A. It will be conducted in English.
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Matteo Augello is a fashion historian and lecturer based in London. From 2013 to 2017, he was a curatorial consultant to the V&A Museum in London for the exhibition Opera: Passion, Power, Politics. He regularly holds masterclasses on costume at the NABA Academy in Milan and has collaborated with Royal Opera House in London, Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and American Ballet Theatre in New York. His first book, Curating Italian Fashion: Heritage, Industry, Institutions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022.
Cover Image: Laura Nobile with Dino Trappetti at Tirelli Costumi.