Olivier Bériot

(costume designer)

Olivier Bériot is a costume designer for television series, film, dance, and theatre. He designed the costumes for the series “Arsène Lupin” (Netflix) and “Theodosia” (HBO). In film, he has collaborated with Luc Besson on “Anna, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets”, “Lucy”, “Malavita”, “The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec”, “The Lady”, and “Arthur and the Invisibles”. He also created costumes for films such as “The King is Dancing” (Gérard Corbiau), “Femme Fatale” (Brian de Palma), “Fanfan la Tulipe” (Gérard Krawczyk), “Taken” (Pierre Morel), “Taken 2”, “Taken 3”, “Transporter 3”, “Colombiana” (Olivier Megaton), “Hitman” (Xavier Gens), “Unleashed” (Louis Leterrier), and “Lucky Luke” (James Huth). He worked with Julian Schnabel on “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (which earned him a 2007 Costume Designers Guild nomination) and with Guillaume Gallienne on “Me, Myself and Mum” (nominated for a César in 2014).

Bériot has also expanded his costume design work into dance and performance, collaborating with choreographers such as Kader Belarbi (“Giselle”, “Toulouse Lautrec”, “La Reine Morte”), Nicolas Le Riche, Robyn Orlin, Marie-Geneviève Massé. At the Paris National Opera, he designed costumes for “Nosferatu” (Jean-Claude Gallotta, 2001, 2006), “The Miraculous Mandarin” (Maurice Béjart, 2003, 2006), “Ich bin…” (Susanne Linke, 2005), “Caligula” (Nicolas Le Riche, 2005, 2008, 2011), “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato” (Robyn Orlin, 2007), “Siddharta” (Angelin Preljocaj, 2010), “D’Ores et déjà” (Béatrice Massin and Nicolas Paul, 2013, 2015, 2019), and “La Cenerentola” (Guillaume Gallienne, 2017, 2018).

Photo: Alexis Minard