I work across costume, photography, painting, creatiove writing, historical research and visual storytelling. All these disciplines are usually treated as different, separate items, where hyper-specialization is the only focus.

My practice sits at the intersection of these fields: I can develop a character through costume, understand how it works within an environment, translate it into an image, and carry the same visual language through the different stages of a project.

This interdisciplinary approach is what makes my work distinctive. Rather than specialising in a single element of a production, I am interested in the connections between them, and in using that understanding to create cohesive visual worlds.

Here you can find my one-of-a-kind costumes, photographic work and other projects. If you are looking for someone who can move between disciplines and help bring a production’s visual language together, you are in the right place.

Grimilde Malatesta began as a nom de plume, a name I chose when this work was still something I was building alongside the career I was supposed to have.

More than ten years of study, experimentation and practice later, this has become my profession.

What started with costume, gradually expanded into photography, painting, historical research, writing, and everything else that helps me turn an idea into something tangible. I like to make the imaginary real, and not just from one point of view: I am the right person to build a whole environment around a concept, and create cohesion.

I have never been particularly interested in choosing between the different things I love doing. They tend to find their way into the same projects anyway.