Michele Clapton
OccupationCostume designer
Years active1989–present
A dress and lace jacket designed by Michele Clapton, and worn by Claire Foy when playing Queen Elizabeth II in season 1, episode 6 of The Crown. Photo taken at Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in 2019.

Michele Clapton is a British costume designer. She won at the BAFTA Awards for the four-part television series The Devil's Whore in the category of Best Costume Design.[1]

She won an Emmy Award for the costumes in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones in 2012. She went on to win again in 2014 and 2016.[2]

In 2016, starting with season 6 of HBO's epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, April Ferry took over Clapton's duties as the new costume designer for a majority of the sixth season.[3] Clapton later returned to the show as costume designer for the seventh season.[4]

In 2021, Fabergé announced a partnership with Game of Thrones. Michele Clapton was invited to co-design a one-of-a-kind Fabergé x Game of Thrones egg objet, symbolic of Daenerys’ dragon eggs, while intertwining subtle nods to her stand-out costumes which celebrate the landscape around her and her evolving story arc. The design choices are informed by Daenerys’ journey from orphaned exile to conquering monarch and her ongoing quest for the Iron Throne. The Egg sold to a private buyer for $2.2 million USD.

Following the success of the egg objet, Fabergé and Game of Thrones continued to work with Michele on a new limited-edition high jewellery collection, which launched at an exclusive event in Dubai.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ↑ "2009 Television Craft Costume Design - BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org.
  2. ↑ "Game of Thrones". Emmys.com. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ginsberg, Merle (June 19, 2015). "'Game of Thrones' Season 6 Adds New Costume Designer". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ Miller, Julie (June 28, 2016). "Game of Thrones Finale: the Secret Symbolism in Cersei's Badass Gown". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2016.


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