Piero Tosi's costumes on display in Rome

(ANSA) - Rome, October 16 - Italian costume designer and instructor Piero Tosi, who will turn 92 in April, will be featured in an exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni as part of the Rome Film Festival, which takes place from October 18 to October 28.
    The exhibition, titled "Piero Tosi: Exercises in Beauty, The CSC Years, 1988-2016", highlights his 28 years as an instructor at Rome's Experimental Cinema Center (CSC).
    Tosi's work contributed to the films of various leading directors, including Visconti, Bolognini, Zeffirelli, Fellini, Pasolini, Cavani, Wertmuller, and Amelio.
    The show includes iconic pieces such as Sofia Loren's lingerie from "Marriage Italian Style", Claudia Cardinale's ball gown from "The Leopard", and Marcello Mastroianni's worn-out suit from "The Organizer".
    There are also costumes made together with students during his seminars, which are true masterpieces of fabric.
    During his years teaching at the CSC, Tosi held seminars on costume design, makeup and hair for specific historic time periods ranging from the Renaissance to the 1900s.
    The students would then wear the costumes in recitals at the school.
    The work on display shows Tosi's exceptional attention to every detail of a costume, from the choice of fabric to the wigs used with the costumes.
    The show also includes photographs from some of the most famous films on which Tosi collaborated, in work that culminated in his winning of an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2013.
    Stefano Iachetti, the show's curator together with Giovanna Arena, Virginia Gentili and Carlo Rescigno, said Tosi "deserves this exhibition".
    "He's a genius, an artist, a craftsman. Only the CSC is able to tell his story as an instructor: he was a generous teacher but also very exacting; I often saw his students crying. He was the first to arrive on set or in the classroom, and he didn't permit anyone to work without passion and concentration," Iachetti said.
    The exhibition opens on October 16 and runs through January 20.