Vittoria Crespi Morbio

Raised under the wing of Piero Tosi, who established the canon of historical costumes in film and theatre in the latter half of the 20th century, Gabriella Pescucci (born 1941) is one of the most brilliant exponents of Italian costume design. She started out in the 1960s, working in the Rome of Pasolini and Visconti, and progressively developed a career that has led to her creative involvement in the most diverse fields, often in Hollywood productions. With Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence she won an Oscar in 1994. Skilled at uniting philological precision and the study of sources with inexhaustible imagination and meticulous attention to even the slightest detail, Gabriella Pescucci has also left her mark on the Teatro alla Scala through a series of operas from 1972 to 2001, the most notable example being the edition of Verdi’s La traviata that debuted in 1990 to then return to the stage on countless occasions.