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MICHELE CLAPTON:
 I was always quite into
 having my own style, I guess.
I don't actually particularly
like sewing,
but I liked what
you could do with it.
 I always had something quite
 different and new
 and I sort of liked that.
Just became very much what I did
and so I went into fashion.
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When I was 15, I used to...
go and buy fabric in the daytime
with my pocket money
and then make something in
the afternoon
and then wear it out
in the evening.
 I was always really observant
 about how people looked.
What they wore,
how they expressed themselves.
 Hence, you know, I became
 a new romantic.
It was Steve Strange and
Boy George and Spandau Ballet.
 You know,
 we were The Blitz Kids.
It was quite influential
at the time
and we all went on to do
something quite creative
 with their lives.
 It was a great time to be
 a fashion student.
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 I just slowly became aware
 through costume houses
there was this other whole side
of design that I
didn't really know about.
 I did realize I love
 the narrative.
 I like the fact that you use
 costumes to tell a story and
to create character and the more
 I did it the more I realized
that's something that I really,
really enjoyed.
 You know the story, you know
 what they're doing.
 You know what their
 relationships are.
You need to show that,
somehow in cloth.
 In a period piece you
 can look at references.
 What did they wear in Holland
 and--
You know, you have the evidence
 and then you can
 play within that.
Game of Thrones is
 much harder in a way
because you have to make it up.
I just look all the time,
even if I'm not
working on something,
 I'll make scrapbooks.
 When I see an image,
 I'll just stick it in,
like a Cersei file or whatever,
 and I'll just keep putting
 things in it.
 Just might be a texture,
 so when it comes around to
 starting again,
I'll have a little sort of file
 of ideas which
just might influence the way it
goes and it often happens again.
(INHALES)
 "God, I forgot about that!
 That would be
 quite an interesting way."
 But also, what you've done
 before sort of
informs your way you need to go.
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CLAPTON:
Designing a series like this...
 First, it has to come from
 a script that guides you.
Then... You start building up a
picture of how this person lives
 and what influences them.
As if they're on the coast,
they can trade and they can buy
and they can become
much more flamboyant.
 There's competition because
 there's more than one armor
or more than one dressmaker.
It's Winterfell, what do people
 do in the evenings?
Well, they probably embroider.
 You have to balance that with
the other characters around them
 and consider the set, colors
 and it just evolves.
 I enjoy doing the
 four women very much.
 Arya and Daene and Sansa
 and Cersei,
 'cause they've just
 really become very strong.
 I like the initial designing
 and planning
 and coming up with the sort of
 ideas for the characters...
working as a team
to make that happen.
 When you finish up film or
 a TV series, they'll say,
 "That's it. That's your
 body of work."
You feel like you really
contributed something.
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