Franca Squarciapino

Italian costume designer

Franca Squarciapino (born 1940) is an Italian costume designer. She won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1990 for Cyrano de Bergerac.[1] She was the official costume designer for the Burgtheater in Vienna, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and Zurich Opera.

Squarciapino worked with Ezio Frigerio many times, who was also her life partner.

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  1. "The 63rd Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. AMPAS. Retrieved May 28, 2019.