If you’re already impressed with the level of detail and effort that goes into creating every episode of The Walking Dead, the series’ costume designer, Elaine Montalvo, is only going to kick that up a notch. Montalvo became TWD’s wardrobe maven at the beginning of Season 7, which means she not only began with the challenge of that deadly scene in the season premiere, but she also helped create the memorable fashions of both the Oceansiders and Jadis and her Heapsters.
Yahoo Entertainment chatted with Montalvo — who was also the costume designer for Nickelodeon’s Big Time Rush and The Bridge on FX — about outfitting multiple communities of soldiers for Season 8’s All Out War, the mind-blowing level of creativity and detail that goes into wardrobe for such a huge cast (of living and, you know, walking dead), and the fun collaboration of dressing a group like the Heapsters.
She also shares the very cool reason it may seem like a lot of female walkers are wearing skirts (and no, it’s not because of that Atlanta heat).
Read the interview here:
