When I designed the costumes for Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” in 2019, I researched the three main locations to be accurate with local weather and dress. Two of those locations were familiar to me, one of which is my hometown – Ingolstadt – the other is Geneva in Switzerland, which is very close to my hometown. The third location are the Orkneys, a group of islands north of Scotland, with harsh and challenging conditions. The average temperatures, wind and rainfall, it reminded me of Iceland, the furthest north I’ve ever been!

And here we are, the Orkneys, where Dr. Frankenstein created and destroyed the female version of a creature that he made with the body parts of a young woman that had drowned and was buried at a graveyard…..