---
name: "Virginie Montel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/virginie-montel"
fi1m_id: "virginie-montel"
imdb_id: "nm0599289"
tmdb_id: 5435
wikidata_id: "Q65116745"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T14:36:19.063256+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."
---

# Virginie Montel

## Identity

Virginie Montel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/virginie-montel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** virginie-montel
- **IMDb ID:** nm0599289
- **TMDB ID:** 5435
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65116745
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65116745, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599289/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5435

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1995–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 acting, 3 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Jacques Audiard](https://film.one/person/jacques-audiard.md), [Martine Cassinelli](https://film.one/person/martine-cassinelli.md), [Pascal Caucheteux](https://film.one/person/pascal-caucheteux.md), [Thomas Bidegain](https://film.one/person/thomas-bidegain.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 90 (1), 2000s 86 (1), 2010s 81 (1), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Romance 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $60m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65116745, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599289/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5435

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Rust and Bone*](https://film.one/film/rust-and-bone.md) (81)
- **Netflix:** [*Emilia Pérez*](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Virginie Montel is a French costume designer and art director. She began working in film in the early 1990s and has been credited as costume designer on features since 1995.

She has collaborated repeatedly with director Jacques Audiard, beginning with *Read My Lips* (2001) and including *The Beat That My Heart Skipped* (2005), *A Prophet* (2009), *Rust and Bone* (2012), *Paris, 13th District* (2021) and *Emilia Pérez* (2024), on which she also served as artistic director. Other credits include *La Haine* (1995), the two *Mesrine* films (2008) and *Final Cut* (2022).

Montel received César nominations for her work on the *Mesrine* films (2009) and *A Prophet* (2010), and a further nomination for *Emilia Pérez*. In 2018 she was elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

*Sources: harpersbazaar.com, imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (1)

- *La Haine* (1995), Fi1m 90, as Subway Homeless — [page](https://film.one/film/la-haine.md)

### Crew (3) — the average rests on these

- *Emilia Pérez* (2024), Fi1m 58, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md)
- *Rust and Bone* (2012), Fi1m 81, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/rust-and-bone.md)
- *A Prophet* (2009), Fi1m 86, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)

## Complete filmography (42)

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

- *La Vénus électrique* (2026), Costume Design, Art Direction
- *Eagles of the Republic* (2025), Costume Design
- *Emilia Pérez* (2024), Costume Design, Art Direction — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md)
- *Final Cut* (2022), Costume Design
- *Paris, 13th District* (2021), Costume Design
- *The Night Doctor* (2021), Costume Design
- *A Friendly Tale...* (2020), Costume Design
- *Sibyl* (2019), Costume Design
- *An Impossible Love* (2018), Costume Design
- *The Trouble with You* (2018), Costume Design
- *Treat Me Like Fire* (2018), Costume Design
- *Endangered Species* (2017), Costume Design
- *Like Mother, Like Daughter* (2017), Costume Design
- *Heal the Living* (2016), as Art Direction
- *News from Planet Mars* (2016), Costume Design
- *The Boss's Daughter* (2016), as Art Direction
- *Santa Claus* (2014), Costume Design
- *Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone* (2014), Costume Design
- *Now or Never* (2014), Costume Design
- *In the Courtyard* (2014), Costume Design
- *Suzanne* (2013), Costume Design
- *The Lookout* (2012), Costume Design
- *Rust and Bone* (2012), Costume Design — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/rust-and-bone.md)
- *Free Men* (2011), Costume Design
- *Beautiful Lies* (2010), Costume Design
- *A Prophet* (2009), Costume Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)
- *Mesrine: Public Enemy #1* (2008), Costume Design
- *Mesrine: Killer Instinct* (2008), Costume Design
- *Priceless* (2006), Costume Design
- *Lemming* (2005), Costume Design
- *The Beat That My Heart Skipped* (2005), Costume Design
- *Secret Agents* (2004), Costume Design
- *Who Killed Bambi?* (2003), Costume Design
- *After You* (2003), Costume Design
- *Read My Lips* (2001), Costume Design
- *The Girl from Paris* (2001), Costume Design
- *With a Friend Like Harry...* (2000), Costume Design
- *The Sandmen* (2000), Costume Design
- *Les Kidnappeurs* (1998), Costume Design
- *Assassin(s)* (1997), Costume Design
- *La Haine* (1995), as Subway Homeless · Costume Design — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/la-haine.md)
- *Cache Cash* (1994), Costumer

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