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

• The Secret Garden (2020)
• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
• Ali and Nino (2016)
• Queen of the Desert (2015)
• Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
• Blood (2012)
• Love and Other Disasters (2006)
• My Family and Other Animals (2005)
• Separate Lies (2005)
• Chromophobia (2005)
• Miranda (2002)
• Chica de Río (2001)
• The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
• Women Talking Dirty (1999)
• Simon Magus (1999)
• Dust Devil (1992)
• Visions of Ecstasy (1989)

Television

• Sense and Sensibility (2008)
• The Crown (2016)
• Game of Thrones (2011–2019)