Over a hundred magnificent costumes for stage and screen by Italian designers can be admired in an exhibition staged at the Museum of Rome Palazzo Braschi. Among those are a number of creations by recent Oscar winner costumist Milena Canorero (Grand Budapest Hotel), including the dazzling dresses made for Queen Marie Antionette in Sofia Coppola's production, which earned her her third statuette after Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Hughdson's Chariots of Fire.
The exhibition is a tribute to Italian excellence in this field. The work of many Italian cinema and theatrical costume designers are represented, including Danilo Donati with Casanovas rose pink jacket and breeches, Gabriella Pescucci's frocks in The Age of Innocence, Piero Gherardi 's white bustier and top hat worn by Sandra Milo in Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits, and Silvana Mangano's elegant outfits in Death in Venice by Piero Tosi
Special treats are the shimmering ballgown worn by Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace by Maria De Matteis and Claudia Cardinale's sumptuous ballroom crinoline in The Leopard, again by Piero Tosi. The tradition continues today with the jacket worn by actor Toni Servillo in last Year's Best Foreign Film The Great Beauty, and with a preview peek at the costumes designed by Massimo Cantini Parrini for the soon-to-be released Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone.
In many of the rooms, scenes from some of the most celebrated films are projected onto the walls, showing the costumes in all the fluidity of movement.
The exhibition runs until the 22nd March 2015.
M. Stenhouse
Info: www.museodiroma.it