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And the Ship Sails On (1983)

“The first film that I designed was [director Federico] Fellini’s E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On, 1983), and it was the most challenging.

I felt totally inadequate; that’s when I started losing my hair! … Fellini asked me to collect research for a film that was set in 1914, and he wanted to be very precise. I traveled to all the great Italian theaters looking for documentation, and I found much that Fellini was looking for about the singers and characters” (FilmCraft: Costume Design).

Mussolini and I (1985)

A TV series with Anthony Hopkins as Italian dictator Mussolini and Susan Sarandon as his daughter Edda.

Otello (1986)

“For Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986) my inspiration was the Venetian paintings of the middle 1500s — Tintoretto, Tiziano and most of all Veronese.

We had the wonderful soprano-turned-actress Katia Ricciarelli, who was perfect to play Desde