Michele Clapton

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.

Among other awards, she won an Emmy Award for the costumes in Game of Thrones in 2012, 2014, and 2016. In 2016, April Ferry took over Clapton's duties as the new costume designer for a majority of the sixth season of the show. Clapton later returned to the show as costume designer for the seventh season.

Selected filmography Film Year Title Director Notes 1989 Visions of Ecstasy Nigel Wingrove Short film 1992 Dust Devil Richard Stanley 1999 Simon Magus Ben Hopkins Janice Beard Clare Kilner Women Talking Dirty Coky Giedroyc 2000 The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz Ben Hopkins 2001 Girl from Rio Christopher Monger 2002 Miranda Marc Munden 2005 Chromophobia Martha Fiennes Separate Lies Julian Fellowes 2006 Love and Other Disasters Alek Keshishian 2012 Blood Nick Murphy 2014 Before I Go to Sleep Rowan Joffé 2015 Queen of the Desert Werner Herzog 2016 Ali and Nino Asif Kapadia 2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Ol Parker The Death & Life of John F. Donovan Xavier Dolan 2020 The Secret Garden Marc Munden 2021 The King's Man Matthew Vaughn 2024 Apartment 7A Natalie Erika James 2027 Wes Ball Filming

Television YearTitleNotes 2005 Casanova 3 episodes My Family and Other Animals Television film 2008 Sense and Sensibility 3 episodes The Devil's Whore 4 episodes 2009 The Diary of Anne Frank 5 episodes 2011–2019 Game of Thrones 65 episodes 2016 The Crown 10 episodes 2021–2023 The Nevers 6 episodes 2022 The Peripheral 8 episodes 2024 The Franchise Episode: "Scene 31A: Tecto Meets Eye"

Awards and nominations Major associations BAFTA Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.British Academy Television Craft Awards 2009 Best Costume Design The Devil's Whore 2017 The Crown 2018 Game of Thrones 2020

Emmy Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref.Primetime Emmy Awards 2011 Outstanding Costumes for a Series Game of Thrones 2012 Game of Thrones 2013 Game of Thrones 2014 Game of Thrones 2015 Outstanding Costumes for a Period/Fantasy Series, Limited Series or Movie Game of Thrones 2016 Game of Thrones 2017 The Crown 2018 Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes Game of Thrones 2019 Game of Thrones

Miscellaneous awards; + Award Year Category Title Result Ref. British Independent Film Awards 2020 Best Costume Design The Secret Garden CinEuphoria Awards 2020 Merit (Honorary Award) n/a Costume Designers Guild Awards 2009 Outstanding Made for Television Movie or Miniseries Sense and Sensibility 2012 Outstanding Period/Fantasy Television Game of Thrones 2013 2016 Outstanding Fantasy Television 2017 Outstanding Period Television The Crown Note: Clapton's wins in 2017 made her the first person to win two of the three Costume Designers Guild television awards in one night. 2018 Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television Game of Thrones 2019 Excellence in Contemporary Film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 2020 Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television Game of Thrones Online Film & Television Association Awards 2012 OFTA Television Award-Best Costume Design in a Series 2013 OFTA Television Award-Best Costume Design in a Series