Alessandro Lai

Alessandro Lai (born 22 January 1970) is an Italian costume designer.

Alessandro Lai
Born	22 January 1970 (1970-01-22) (age 55) Cagliari, Italy
Alma mater	University of Cagliari
Occupation	Costume designer
Years active	1998-present

Life and career

Born in Cagliari, Lai graduated in letters from the University of Cagliari with a thesis about the relationship between Piero Tosi and Luchino Visconti; later he moved to Rome, where he became a pupil of Tosi at Sartoria Tirelli.^[1] He made his professional debut as assistant of Maurizio Millenotti in Giuseppe Tornatore's The Legend of 1900.^[1] He debuted as custume designer in 2000, in Giorgio Treves' Rosa and Cornelia.^[1]

Starting with Saturn in Opposition, Lai began a long professional association with director Ferzan Özpetek, and among the directors with whom he has collaborated are Franco Zeffirelli, Tinto Brass, Liliana Cavani, Francesca Archibugi.^[1] He also worked on television, mostly in Lux Vide productions such as Medici and Barabbas, and on stage, where he collaborated with Chiara and Riccardo Muti.^[1]

During his career he was awarded two Nastro d'Argento Awards, in 2002 for Senso '45,^[2] and in 2012 for Ozpetek's Magnificent Presence.^[3] In 2018, he won a Ciak D'Oro for Naples in Veils.^[4]

Selected filmography

Cinema

• Rosa and Cornelia, directed by Giorgio Treves (2000)
• Sud Side Stori, directed by Roberta Torre (2000)
• Callas Forever, directed by Franco Zeffirelli (2002)
• Senso '45, directed by Tinto Brass (2002)
• Household Accounts, directed by Tonino Cervi (2003)
• Roundtrip, directed by Marco Ponti (2004)
• Vanilla and Chocolate, directed by Ciro Ippolito (2004)
• The Spectator, directed by Paolo Franchi (2004)
• Flying Lessons, directed by Francesca Archibugi (2007)
• Saturn in Opposition, directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2007)
• A Question of the Heart, directed by Francesca Archibugi (2009)
• Loose Cannons, directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2010)
• They Call It Summer, directed by Paolo Franchi (2012)
• Love Is Not Perfect, directed by Francesca Muci (2012)
• Magnificent Presence, directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2012)
• Fasten Your Seatbelts, directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2014)
• Unique Brothers, directed by Alessio Maria Federici (2014)
• ReWined, directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani (2014)
• An Italian Name, directed by Francesca Archibugi (2015)
• Latin Lover, directed by Cristina Comencini (2015)
• Ever Been to the Moon?, directed by Paolo Genovese (2015)
• Tommaso, directed by Kim Rossi Stuart (2016)
• Naples in Veils, directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2017)
• The King's Musketeers, directed by Giovanni Veronesi (2018)
• The Goddess of Fortune, directed by Ferzan Özpetek (2019)

Television

• Virginia, la monaca di Monza, directed by Alberto Sironi (TV-movie, 2004)
• Barabbas, directed by Roger Young (TV-movie, 2012)
• Medici (TV series, 2016-2019)
• Devils (TV series, 2020-2022)
• Leonardo (TV series, 2021)
• Django (TV series, 2023)
• The Lions of Sicily (TV series, 2023)