Hayley Nebauer
Costume Designer
Originally from Tasmania, Hayley has worked as a costume designer in film since 2000, based in the UK since 2005. Hayley works from varied research sources, often blending her love of rich historical costume with contemporary design or other contrasting aesthetics.
Picking up from Phoebe de Gaye’s BAFTA-winning work on Series One and Two of the Musketeers, Hayley’s brief for Series Three was to develop designs that built onto the existing look of the show, moving the story forward and giving the show a new, strong aesthetic for the characters.
“In The Musketeers, France has been at war for several years, affecting the characters and their costumes. I worked some aspects of 17th Century armour into many of the characters’ costumes, using unusual materials such as metal, rock and glass – but still infused the costumes with a modern feel to keep the dynamic and visual poetry of the show that the fans enjoy.
The new Musketeers costumes have a slightly more uniform look to them to reflect the war-like state of our hero soldiers. Each costume reflects the individual characters, adding new ceremonial armour pieces to costumes which have a lighter, faster feel about them but still honour the classic Musketeer look. The new Musketeers’ pauldrons and accessories each carry the signature Musketeers motifs surrounding a new metal Musketeers Fleur-de-Lys badge on the arm.
With many new villains for Series Three, it was important to show their strong differences and backgrounds, using some unexpected modern references. For the leading women, their stories have all changed so much since the end of Series Two that it was important to reflect this in their design for Series Three, each taking a much more active and powerful role than before. Their costumes had to show not just their personal fashion taste but their role, power and the journey they go on throughout the new series.”
Hayley hopes the Musketeers fans will enjoy the new looks while feeling that they have grown out of the same world that they have come to know and love in Series One and Two.
