Lila De Nobili

Lila De Nobili ( born September 3, 1916 in Castagnola (Lugano ), † 19 February 2002 in Paris) was an Italian fashion illustrator, set designer and costume designer.

Life

De Nobili father was from an old Italian family and her mother came from a Jewish- Hungarian family. An uncle was the famous painter Marcel Vertes. In the 1930s she studied with 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 pictures of haute couture collections for various magazines, especially Vogue.

Lila De Nobili created sets and costumes for many of the most important operas, theater and film productions of their time, including Angel Pavement (1947 ), Le voleur d' enfants (1948 ), A Streetcar Named Desire (1949 ), La Petite Lili (1951 ), Anna Karenina (1951 ), Gigi (1951 ), Cyrano de Bergerac (1953), The Country Girl (1954 ), The Crucible (1954 ), La Plume de Ma Tante (1958 ), L ' Arlesienne (1958 ), Carmen (1959 ) and The Aspern papers ( 1961).

• Set designer
• Illustrator
• Costume
• Italian
• Born 1916
• Died in 2002
• Woman