The Game of Thrones star is the face of Dolce & Gabbana’s latest scent.
Kit Harington is a creative guy. Of course, you already know that if you’re familiar with his character Jon Snow on the ever-popular series Game of Thrones. It’s hard to imagine the man behind the character could be anything but. Still, he’d like to take it further. He’s dabbled in producing. He’d like to get into directing. If he could only figure out how to use Final Draft, he’d like to get into writing. And along with his stints outside of acting, he’s been working with Dolce & Gabbana fragrances—this round, on the new scent The One Grey.
We talked to the actor about switching between the acting and the fashion worlds, what he wears in his downtime, and why he believes GoT became so successful.
He finds working with D&G “joyful.”
I love working with Dolce & Gabbana because it’s fun and light. It’s quite glamorous. It’s this weird, opposing life you lead. If you’re lucky enough to be on a successful show like Thrones, you have these two worlds. On Thrones, I’m sitting in a tent on a rain-soaked field and I’m tired and I’m in heavy costumes. There’s nothing glamorous about the actual filming of it. But then you do something like this, and it’s the entire opposite. You’re in a penthouse apartment in New York. It’s a very pleasurable side of the job, and it’s exciting. It makes you feel glamorous. The campaign we shot in a piazza in Italy in Naples was joyful. I think sometimes,I find, it can be not like that. It can be too overly serious. With D&G, it seems they pride themselves on something Italian—something joyful, something loud. That’s been fun to do. Plus, the fragrance is equally light and fun.
His very first fragrance was Dolce & Gabbana.
You’re not going to believe me because it sounds like a line, but my first fragrance was Dolce & Gabbana. I can’t remember which one, but it was. It’s another reason why this [partnership] felt quite right. You know when you’re a teenage boy and your mom takes a sniff of you and goes, “Yep, you need to start wearing something.”? I remember that was the first time actually spending money on a scent. You stick with it for a long time; it becomes a trademark to you as a person. Continue reading »
