It’s over.
A TV series is over, but also an era is over, an emotion that has connected millions of fans around the world for ten years until the last act of a saga that will be remembered as one of the greatest media phenomena ever: we are talking about “Game of Thrones,” that came to its conclusion with the sixth episode of the eighth season.
This last season made fans argue a lot, in a good or bad way. It showed us epic battles, unexpected character evolutions, intense moments, amazing soundtracks and also some significant looks for the evolution of the story.
The great protagonists of the most unforgettable moments of this season, in fact, were the women and their fighting spirits: can we talk about Arya who killed the Night King? Or the hungry for power that brought Cersei and Daenerys to collide with each other and then with destiny? Or even Sansa, that after an existence of abuse has become the Queen in the North (and in our hearts)?
To represent their moods and their qualities were, once again, the scene costumes designed by Michele Clapton. Here all the meanings and details that have made the clothes protagonists and worthy of an ending (or rather, more endings) that will live forever.
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ARYA
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In the first and last episode, Arya wears a side-cut cloak with grey quilting that leaves her arms free: as Clapton explained, the asymmetry is due to the fact that she is a warrior, and therefore needs to have her hands free to fight. The color and forge of the clothes reflects the father, Ned Stark, but unlike the other members of the family, Arya does not wear the typical fur of the house because she is no longer entirely part of it. She is a free spirit, came to Winterfell in the moment of need but with the intention of going beyond, even beyond the world’s end. During the King’s Landing fight instead, Arya gets rid of the cloak revealing a soft and simple armour with a male cut, to move undercover among the crowd in order to reach her final goal: killing Cersei.
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CERSEI
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In the last season, Cersei brings back the deep red typical of the Lannisters, without leaving aside the mourning black, which indicates her thirst for blood and revenge. The dress of the first episodes with the details in golden metal (like those on the shoulders) recalls an armor, a sign of the imminent war. The whole looks gives seriousness to Cersei and presages the fate that awaits her, emphasized by the red dress that the Queen wears during the battle of King’s Landing. Cersei doesn’t wear a crown when she should give maximum demonstration of her power in front of Daenerys and her troops, facing then the end no longer as a queen, but as an ordinary person.
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DAENERYS
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Daenerys is one of the characters that, stylistically speaking, has undergone a remarkable evolution of style during the seasons, which went along with her approach to the fulfillment of her aspirations and to the Iron Throne. From young Queen of Dothraki to the dresses of Qarth and the comfortable battle suits (perfect for the Mother of Dragons), she finally arrives in Westeros. Daenerys in the eighth season finds herself facing the winter for the first time and then she wears furs, which during her stay at Winterfell are white or gray with red streaks, to symbolize the blood that we will see in the last episodes and her descent into madness, the curse of the Targaryen. Daenerys approaches the Iron Throne with dramatic and bellicose beauty, with the red cloak (one of his family’s colors) kept on her shoulder by a chain with the dragon-headed buckle; the chain symbolizes her epithet of “Breaker of chains.” And precisely with this military and iconic style that reminds her origins, Daenerys faces her destiny in this great and unpredictable Game of Thrones.
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SANSA
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During the last seasons, and as a result of the terrible events that she went through, Sansa Stark has built armor around her heart. With the eighth season, the armor became true and made of leather (the typical material of the Stark’s armor, to symbolize the North and her family), becoming a recurring element of her style. She becomes sheltered both metaphorically and literally speaking, shutting herself from the world without however avoiding to show the strength and determination that has made her a ruler. Protection and declaration of her own power are therefore the two keywords that define the style of Sansa in the last season. Another iconic element since the fifth season is the chain with the circle and the needle in the final part: as Michele Clapton said, the circles are a symbol of harmony and protection and they are often associated with the strength of women, while the needle represents both a bond with her sister Arya (the tip recalls the thin sword with which the young girl fights) that the talent of Sansa as seamstress, as well as her ability to know how to prove herself with hidden but lethal weapons, such as her mind.
In the final episode, when she becomes Queen in the North, Sansa wears a dress that pays full tribute to her family: the leaves on the dress resemble those of the Weirwood, the gray is the color of the Starks, the cut cloak recalls that of Arya, the flakes on her chest are for her mother Catelyn Tully (the Tully crest is a trout), the hairs on the cloak represent Rickon while the darker ones are for Jon. The crown is a tribute to Robb. Long live the Queen in the North!
