Nicole Ferraro is a Western Australian based costume designer and stylist for film, TV and stills.
A graduate of the Western Australian Institute of Fashion & Textiles, she began her career in the Fashion Industry working as a Production Manager, eventually finding her way into costume departments across film and television.
Nicole's most notable work includes costume design for feature mockumentary Top Knot Detective (2016), feature films Crazy About You (2019) (previously known as The Naked Wanderer) and Koko: A Red Dog Story (2019). She has also worked with talented artists such as Abbe May and John Butler Trio, as well as advertising clients including BGC, HBF, Lotterywest, St Johns, Tourism WA and XXXX Gold.
Nicole received an Australian Production Design Guild Awards 2017 nomination for Best Costume Design on a Television Production for her work on Top Knot Detective.
She also produced her debut feature film PIECES under Third Storey Pictures, which was released across cinemas in Australia in 2022 and is nominated for an 2022 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) awards for Best Indie Film.
Growing up in regional Western Australia, Nicole has a keen interest in diverse characters, combining both her practical approach and strong visual aesthetic to bring them from script to screen. Nicole communicates costume across various mediums, passionately collaborating with colleagues and creative teams and is particularly drawn to challenging projects that engage and evoke audiences.
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