Costume Designer (on The Lost Daughter) Edward K. Gibbon — That’s Not My Age
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Did you get the stripy t-shirt memo? Image: Claire Pepper.
For my latest podcast episode I’m delighted to introduce a incredibly special guest esteemed costume designer, and expensive mate, Edward K Gibbon. We achieved quite a few years ago as pupils in Manchester, ended up sharing a flat with each other and expended much more time at the Haçienda than we did in the library. Edward switched courses to analyze graphic style, and upon graduating re-experienced as a tailor. Relocating to London, he proven himself as a costume designer for theatre and opera till an supply arrived alongside to function on the cult Television clearly show Skins. ‘It was the perfect job for me. The show was so excellent and groundbreaking, and it didn’t subject to them that I didn’t know what the hell I was performing half the time. It was good.’
As a costume designer, he’s managed the wardrobe office on all the things from historic dramas to Hollywood motion pictures: such as War & Peace, The Honourable Female, Black Mirror and Oscar-nominated The Missing Daughter. Tailored from the Elena Ferrante novel, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s acclaimed directorial debut stars: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley (both up for Oscars, along with Gyllenhaal for greatest adapted screenplay), Ed Harris, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal. And due to the fact the crew had been doing the job in a help bubble, Edward tends to make an visual appearance as an further on the dancefloor…


Olivia Colman donning Palmer Harding. Image: Yannis Drakoulidis/Netflix

Olivia Colman sporting MaxMara in The Misplaced Daughter. Picture: Yannis Drakoulidis/Netflix. Enter Edward stage right…
In this episode, Edward joins me to talk about filming The Missing Daughter as we arrived out of the 1st lockdown, the job costume plays in storytelling, the inventive procedure and where by he resources customized pieces. Together the way, he shares some of the highlights of his profession (generally collaborating with Maggie Gyllenhaal!), impostor syndrome and what it is like to operate absent from household for extended periods. And of program, we include the standard topics of age and design.
I hope you love the episode as a great deal as I appreciated recording it.
Hear below:
Edward always has a variety of publications on the go and is now examining: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, an autobiography of Tennessee Williams, Agent Sonya by Ben MacIntrye and Ben Kelly’s Haçienda Landscapes.
As I have just commenced likely back to the cinema, I asked him for some film recommendations: The Duke, Coda, Immediately after Appreciate, Ali & Ava and Flee.
And we’re all wanting forward to a summer season getaway this year:
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PODCAST CREDITS
Producer and audio engineer: Linda Ara-Tebaldi
Host: Alyson Walsh
Visitor: Edward K Gibbon
Songs: David Schweitzer
Artwork: Ayumi Takahashi
Coordinator: Helen Johnson
*Due to the pandemic the Which is Not My Age podcast is now recorded utilizing a internet-dependent software on my computer. It is odd not being in a area with another person, not looking at a person’s facial expression or recognizing if they’re about to keep on talking…But it also means we can go world wide!
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