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# Vanessa Riera

Costume designer. Born in Geneva.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Also known as:** Vanessa Riera Frangu
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7381489/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3644919

## Biography

Vanessa Riera, also credited as Vanessa Riera Frangu, is a Swiss costume designer based in Geneva. She is known for her work on the stop-motion animated feature *My Life as a Zucchini* (2016, also known as *Ma vie de Courgette*), on which she shared costume design and supervision duties with Christel Grandchamp, creating dozens of miniature garments for the puppets.

Riera trained and worked as a specialised educator for adolescents before turning to textile creation around 2001. Born in Geneva to a Peruvian father and a Franco-Swiss mother, she has maintained an atelier-boutique in the city and has additional costume credits on the Swiss productions *La femme canon* (2017) and *La preuve scientifique de l'existence de Dieu* (2019).

*Sources: tdg.ch, swissfilms.ch.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Life as a Zucchini* (2016), Fi1m 84, Costume Design, Costume design, Costume Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/my-life-as-a-zucchini.md)

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