 Valeria's love for performance and costumes comes from an early age due to her family's influence, whose interests include singing opera, scenic arts, theatre acting and directing, expertise in military uniforms and dress making.
She worked in Rome with an amateur theatre company as assistant director, organising wardrobe and alterations and sourcing props, and on a short film helping with scenography.Having moved to London she attended courses at Central Saint Martins in order to improve her making and feed her passion for costumes for performance. After working as a graphic and web designer, Valeria decided to turn her passion into a career, graduating from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a first class BA in Theatre Practice Costume Construction and has since gained experience as a costume maker, standby, buyer and costume supervisor assistant for a variety of movies, theatres and operas. She has worked as assistant supervisor at Royal Opera House and English National Opera on numerous productions, and as a maker on a variety of movies such as Disney's "Cinderella" and "Beauty and the Beast", Lucas Film's "Andor", Netflix "3 body problem" and many more. Her skills include: dressmaking, period and modern wear, corsetry and undergarments, stretch fabrics, leather and latex clothing, basic pattern cutting, basic tailoring, draping, basic millinery, assistant supervisor, sourcing and buying, Graphic design and textile design, Photoshop, Illustrator. Valeria speaks fluent English and Italian understands some basic Spanish and has a JLPTN5 certificate in Japanese. Find her complete list of credits on LinkedIn and IMDB. |
