Stefano De Nardis is an Italian Costume Designer that has gained a Costume Designers Guild of America nomination for best costumes with his work as Designer for the 2008 “Coco Chanel” Alchemy TV miniseries – starring Shirley MacLaine.

His professional training happened in the world of Haute Couture in Rome, whilst at the same time studying Fashion and Costume : following an early career as Product Manager in the Far East for an italian Ready-to-wear firm, he landed in the Costume field by the late 90’s thanks to his productive experience in running very big, very demanding workshops.

For this reason he alternates to his own commitments as Costume Designer the responsabilities of supervising costume-managing for large-scale international projects : he has run Costume Departments for “Gangs of New York”, “Prince of Persia - the Sands of Time” , “Pirates of the Caribbean - on Stranger Tides” , “47 Ronins” ,“Jumper” , “Avengers - Age of Ultron” , the Bond movies “Spectre” and “No time to die” ,”American Assassin”, “All the money in the world”, “Men in black : international” , “Red Notice”, “The King’s Man” and - in recent years - “Mission : impossible - Dead reckoning - Part One” , and Alfonso Cuaron’s “Disclaimer” , starring Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.

As a Designer, he has signed costumes for several miniseries for Italian TV Channels MEDIASET and RAI - and, internationally, has created costumes for the Emmy-nominated NatGeo miniseries “Killing Jesus”, the movie “Christ the Lord” – from Anne Rice’s best selling novel, and Luke Scott debut sci-fi feature “Morgan”, starring Anya Taylor-Joy .

He has been an Associate Designer to fellow colleague and dear friend Oscar winner Janty Yates for Ridley Scott’s “Exodus - Gods and Kings” and the controversial “House of Gucci”, starring Lady Gaga - and more recently “Gladiator II” , Oscar nominated for Best Costumes.

He has also been an Associate Designer to Oscar nominated Designer Joanna Johnston , for the “Ancient Syracuse” segment in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” - and , on a more fashion-y note , he has dressed some legendary icons of classic Cinema - among them Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton - having designed costumes for “Book Club - The next chapter” , and supervised costumes for this year “Another Simple Favor”, starring Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.

Once more as Associate Designer (this time to Ellen Mirojnick) , he is busy at the moment on the much awaited Oscar winner Director Christoper Nolan’s new feature “The Odyssey” - starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway and due for mid-next year .