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name: "José María de Cossío"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jose-maria-de-cossio"
fi1m_id: "jose-maria-de-cossio"
imdb_id: "nm0208130"
tmdb_id: 3824
wikidata_id: "Q94487606"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
died: "2 March 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T03:05:05.445075+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# José María de Cossío

## Identity

José María de Cossío

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jose-maria-de-cossio
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jose-maria-de-cossio
- **IMDb ID:** nm0208130
- **TMDB ID:** 3824
- **Wikidata ID:** Q94487606
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94487606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3824

Costume designer. Born in Madrid, Spain. Died 2 March 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Died:** 2 March 2023
- **Active:** 1988–1999
- **Also known as:** José M.ª de Cossío
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 1990s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94487606, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208130/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3824

## Biography

José María de Cossío was a Spanish costume designer and assistant director. Born in Madrid in 1947, he began working in film in the early 1980s as an assistant director on Pedro Almodóvar’s *Dark Habits* (1983) and *What Have I Done to Deserve This?* (1984), before moving into costume design with *Matador* (1986).

He is best known for his long collaboration with Almodóvar, designing costumes for thirteen of the director’s films. These include *Law of Desire* (1987), *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown* (1988), *Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!* (1990), *High Heels* (1991), *Kika* (1993), *Live Flesh* (1997) and *All About My Mother* (1999). He received five Goya Award nominations for his work on Almodóvar films. Cossío was a co-owner of the production company El Deseo in its early years and contributed to more than ninety Spanish feature films. He died in Madrid on 2 March 2023.

*Sources: imdb.com, eldebate.com, kinotico.es.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *All About My Mother* (1999), Fi1m 88, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/all-about-my-mother.md)
- *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown* (1988), Fi1m 84, Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Walking Vengeance* (2008), Costume Design
- *Masala* (2007), Costume Design
- *Crossing Borders* (2006), Costume Design
- *Body Confusion* (2004), Costume Designer
- *All About My Mother* (1999), Costume Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/all-about-my-mother.md)
- *Live Flesh* (1997), Costume Design
- *Taxi* (1996), Costume Design
- *Corsarios del chip* (1996), Costume Design
- *Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead* (1995), Costume Design
- *Kika* (1993), Costume Design
- *Too Much Heart* (1992), Costume Design
- *High Heels* (1991), Costume Design
- *Against the Wind* (1990), Costume Design
- *The Black Moon* (1990), Costume Designer
- *Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!* (1990), Costume Design
- *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown* (1988), Costume Designer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown.md)
- *Law of Desire* (1987), Costume Designer
- *Matador* (1986), Costume Design
- *What Have I Done to Deserve This?* (1984), Assistant Director
- *Dark Habits* (1983), Second Assistant Director

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