University degrees: Courses
Course length: 2 years
Course city: Rome
Do you want to undertake a course of study that offers you great opportunities to transform your passion into a solid working reality? Do you want to create haute couture clothes but the ‘fashion system’ is close to you?
At CSC you can learn the secrets of becoming a great costume designer from internationally renowned Masters!
The fundamental phases of the course are the original costume design, in which the student, through the drawing, preceded by in-depth documentation, deals with the ideation of the costume according to the historical period, the place, the social class and psychology of the characters; the cutting workshop, where the student is directly confronted with the problems connected with the “reconstruction” of a period dress; the make-up and hairstyle seminar, in which the student, after careful research, formulates his own make-up and hairstyle project that will follow throughout the process of its creation. The three didactic moments have as primary objective the in-depth study of the costume, both in relation to the time and the “visual expression” of the historical moment, and in function of the physicality of the actor that the costume designer must make credible as a character. The collective exercises and the realization of the diploma film will allow future costume designers to interact with all the other specialist areas of the School.
Among the teachers of the last five years Piero Tosi, Gabriella Pescucci, Luca Costigliolo, Marisa D ‘Andrea, Vera Marzot, Maurizio Monteverde, Gabriele Majer, Tommaso Strinati, Franco and Maria Teresa Corridoni, Virginia Gentili.
Maurizio Millenotti is one of the most representative brands in the international costume scene. He has collaborated, among others, with Federico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, Giuseppe Tornatore, Ermanno Olmi, Peter Greenway, Kevin Reynolds, Mel Gibson. Winner of the Silver Ribbon for the costumes of the film The Passion of Christ, directed by Mel Gibson ( 2005) and the Silver Ribbon for The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oliver Parker (2003); Nomination for the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento per Malèna, by Giuseppe Tornatore (2001); Emmy Award nomination for the TV series Arabian Nights (2000); Winner of the David di Donatello and the Nastro d’Argento for The legend of the pianist on the ocean, by Giuseppe Tornatore (1999); Nomination for the Oscar for the films Amleto (1991) and Otello (1987) by Franco Zeffirelli; Winner of the Nastro d’Argento for E la nave va by Federico Fellini.
