Lila De Nobili
Lila De Nobili (* 3. September 1916 in Castagnola , Ticino , † 19th February 2002 in Paris ) was an Italian fashion - illustrator , set designer and costume designer .
Life
De Nobili's father was from an old Italian family and her mother came from a Jewish-Hungarian family. One uncle was the famous painter Marcel Vértes . In the 1930s she studied with the artist Ferruccio Ferrazzi at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She settled in Paris in 1943, where she lived until her death in 2002.
Career
In Paris, De Nobili began with images of the haute couture collections for various magazines, especially Vogue .
Lila De Nobili created sets and costumes for many of the most important opera, theater and film productions of her time, including Engel Pavement (1947), Le voleur d'enfants (1948), A Streetcar Named Desire (1949), La Petite Lili (1951 ), Anna Karenina (1951), Gigi , Cyrano de Bergerac (1953), A Country Girl (1954), The Witches of Salem (1954), La Plume de Ma Tante (1958), L 'Arlésienne (1958), Carmen (1959) and The Aspern Papers (1961).
Web links
- Lila De Nobili in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Nobili, Lila |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian fashion illustrator, set designer and costume designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Castagnola (Lugano) , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 2002 |
| Place of death | Paris |