Linea michael monroe had not even had time to go finished their specialist training at the London College of Fashion when she received a phone call from Belfast. She wanted to be ”head of couture costume effects” for the ”Game of thrones”?
” I had just had an exhibition of some of my costumes, as someone from the production had been and seen. They called on a Tuesday and asked if I could start on Monday, ” says Linea michael monroe.
”Absolutely!”, she replied without hesitation. Then checked her up was Belfast low.
”Shit, I’m going to northern Ireland!” I barely had time to finish my life in London, it was just to go. I thought maybe it was a few months, but I stayed for six and a half years…
In just over six years – with breaks in-between seasons – she created the costumes for characters like Daenerys main differences and Jon Snow.
director of the kostymservice at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, where she receives us a morning in april. ”Game of thrones”, she began to work with in preparation for the third season. It was then that her specialist knowledge in the so-called effektkostym began to be needed for the more advanced costumes, including vildlingarna would be dressed in. Before that, she had seen the series as a fan at any time.
– Michele Clapton, costume designer, has been a big inspiration for me when I have studied historic costume. It was why I started to watch the series from the beginning. If you like the costume so if you like ”Game of thrones”, so is it just, say Linea michael monroe.
During her years in production, michael monroe managed to both marry and differ with one another ”Game of thrones”-employees. Photo: Adam Daver
” What I do is textilmanipulation – all solutions that are not classic tailoring. Another title makes the traditional costumes. In effektkostym takes other roads to the final outcome, to develop materials that do not already exist, and it is completely different than the cut and sew clothing of a purchased fabric.
When Daenerys main differences decided to give out of the north, she needed to be dressed in warmer materials. It is the Linea michael monroe, who has done drakdrottningens pälskappor that has become so popular on the internet. In the seventh season is the coat white and the closest to the zebrarandig. In the eighth and final season, which is now being sent, fur-lined coat had a sinister blood red bottom.
– Research is everything, ” says michael monroe.
” If you are going to make a costume for a vildling you have to know that they live north of the wall, how cold it is there, what they do in their clothes, what materials they have access to… And so, you can look at similar communities in the real world for inspiration. It must not be verklighetsförankrat, but it will be satisfactory also for the viewer to recognize themselves a bit.
I ask him about the persistent rumors that surrounded the coats as the Night watchman, murvaktarna in the ”Game of thrones” bears – that they, in fact, are made of fuzzy Ikea rugs. Is it true?
“There is a tale going around… I know that Michele Clapton has said something about it, but I have not used some Ikea rugs,” says Linea michael monroe and laughs.
When she wasn’t working tolvtimmarsdagar, at the very least, in the studio in Belfast, she traveled to filming locations such as Croatia, Bilbao or the Island to be available on any garment needed to be adjusted or repaired.
– It is always a concern when someone is going to play in a one-piece garment for the first time – will it work when the actor to stand and make the same move for a whole day? You don’t know if any stretch or burst until you have tried.
Linea michael monroe on Järntronen. Photo: Jeanette Stener
Kit robb’s wife, who plays Jon Snow, seemed the black, pälskantade gown he went dressed in large parts of the seventh season. Also, Kristofer Hivju, the rödlätte the Norwegian, who plays vildlingen Tormund, seemed fond of his frayed overcoat.
” It was one of the first costumes I did in season three. He is the go, Kristofer, and it was fun that we could talk as a secret language with each other on the recordings.
During his years in production, michael monroe managed to both marry and differ with one another ”Game of thrones”-employees. She says that life in Belfast felt that ”a great camp”.
” It was very melancholy the last month, but many of us were probably pretty ready to move on. It is only now, when I see the new sections, as I realize that soon it is coming to an end really. But it’s not that I sit and crave for the next episode like all the others…
” Mm.
She screws. Invisible kontraktshögar, as thick as telephone directories and full of warnings about what could happen if she speaks next to the mouth of ”Game of thrones”-the late, towering on the table between us.
– You have to read the script, otherwise it is very hard for me to relate to. Of course you have to know what the costume should be.
Linea michael monroe Photo: Adam Daver
