#historically inspired

Sansa, Queen of the North

Raise your hand if this is the redesign you’ve been waiting for (me too, reaching this outfit/theme was a great goal to keep focused on).

(Rant incoming about her tv show coronation gown. If you like it, power to you) Again, it’s one of those show stoppers that the show technically had a good idea for but the execution…missed the mark for me. I don’t know if the lighting killed the vibe or something but…. I was so hyped when they were putting on the sleeves.. but then they revealed the bodice and the crown…. (TT^TT). The pattern/texture is waaaay too busy and the crown is sadly underwhelming (p.s. I’m really not a fan of her dom/dark needle Lady Winterfell tv dress and this show coronation dress is just part 2 of that with cooler sleeves).

Anyway I did really love the sleeves so I started there. Added simple pale grey over gown, alluded to previous “Northern” fashion styles, letting the silhouette and the red of her hair do most of the talking. This is about how calm/simple/elegant she is in this moment.

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Queen Dany Targaryen of Seven Kingdoms

Of course since the books haven’t been completed yet Just how Dany get’s to the sticky note that D&D based season 8 on remains a mystery. But let’s have some fun and imagine for a moment that she does become Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. If you haven’t picked up on it yet I decided really early on to base Targaryen fashion very loosely of that of Imperial Russia (Anastasia is always on my mind and if you look at the first Dany all the way back in… November? September? There’s some Anastasia sleeves & crown going on)

So after she leaves her conquest of Slaver’s Bay/The Great Grass Sea she starts to use Targaryen fashion to reassert her claim for the Iron Throne. She has been wearing Kokoshnik-inspired crowns/tiara’s from the beginning, and hopefully the pattern of trailing sleeves and high decorative collars creates a nice through line as she redefines her identity as the Targaryen Heir.

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Sansa Stark, Lady of Winterfell.

For this look I went all in on making things as Stark as possible. A part of this of course is pageantry, subtle messages that order is reestablished, that the Starks have returned, the True Wardens of the North will look after everyone, etc. Lots of subliminal messaging going on. Greys, silvers, wolf motifs, hair taping, winter fabrics, the whole nine. It’s also probably very reassuring to Sansa that she has the freedom to dress this way and honor the North at all.

Anyway, she takes to being Lady Stark like a duck to water and the people of Winterfell (and the North in general) adore her for it.

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Dany goes to the North

Let’s assume that one day Winter will arrive in the ASOIAF Westeros and Dany will have to go North to assist with The Long Night (before or after taking care of Cersei/the scramble for the Iron Throne idk).

I had a lot of fun designing a Winter outfit for Dany. Incorporating furs, recognizable jewelry, a combination of the blinding whites and deep Targaryen red/purples. Especially because I knew I could layer up sooooo much fabric and fur XD. She must be so cold in this new extreme-opposite climate.

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Queen Cersei

Alternatively War Ready Cersei? No longer pretending to be a Regent in any way. Instead the Lannister Queen is loud and proud about it. Her hair is growing longer as the years go by, but these days she prefers a more severe updo to her previous mane.

The reds get darker and richer, the golds get heavier and even more lion themed if you can believe it.

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Arya Returns to Winterfell

It has been a long time but finally the Wolves are able to return to Winterfell. Arya returns, along with Needle of course. She’s dressed in this kind of Tudor crossed with Northern/Medieval clothing. Openly wearing tunics and breeches, her brooches are silver direwolves.

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Sansa returns to Winterfell

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen fashion from The North. But as the Stark family returns they can use fashion to visually re-establish themselves in the North. There’s a little bit of a Riverrun reference in there but we’ll continue to see some things evolve.

Having Sansa return and transition fashion-wise from soft blues to soft greys and creating a fantastic contrast to Cersei and Daenerys race to dark reds and purples.

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Dany War Queen

Since we’ve finished the canon-book stuff we might as well have some fun with the “hypotheticals”/show material! This outfit is happening at a much later date, it will most likely take time for Dany to finally arrive on Dragonstone to begin the battle for the Iron Throne. But eventually, hopefully, maybe she’ll one day reach this point in the story and as such her costuming will adapt to be much more severe, Targaryen, and Dragon-forward. She’s not here to play around but to fight.

It’s a bit of a sudden and drastic change to Dany’s wardrobe. Much more like her show outfits in some ways, but hopefully the references to historical clothing, dragons, and Dany’s fashion evolution with these redesigns are visible in some way.

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Jenny of Oldstones

A slight break from the current ASOIAF characters. We’ve made it to the end of book canon! (And since the show went off the rails/ended horribly we’ll explore some of the main plot points that COULD work with good writing… but the show gave up on that a long time ago so we won’t go into much detail.)

Why yes I have listened to versions of her song on repeat, however could you tell?

I decided that the “past” went through a sideless surcoat phase that I’ll reference again later. It’s a very recognizable/unique medieval fashion trend that makes this redesign feel both still relevant to the previous GoT redesigns while also highlighting it as being very different.

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Queen Cersei

A lot have things have changed for Cersei in not much time. She’s had to shave her head for starters, and in return is now either Queen Regent… or just Queen. (this is where the book vs show starts getting a little wonky and we’re speed run some of the ideas that could be the end of Game of Thrones but pretend the path to them made sense/was well crafted.

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Margaery in the time of the Sparrows

As I’ve said this is around the times when the books and show end/make stuff up. So I won’t spend too much time in this section. But I am fairly confident in the guess that the appearance of the new social/militant/religious group with the power and influence the Sparrows have is going to quickly change the general fashion trends of King’s Landing. And I would assume that the fashion would lean towards conservative in both cut and price. Displays of wealth in forms such as jewelry, material, intricacy, tailoring would all be diminished in some way or another.

For Margaery I interpreted this as minimal jewelry (a crown and a small gold flower pin), a more matronly hairstyle, a similar silhouette to her previous HighGarden gowns but the sleeves have lost the slashing details, the neckline is high, and arguably the most extravagant element to this look is the lace. All in all, a Very subtle fashion statement from the Queen/Dowager Queen. (Bonus points for being as Opposite Cersei as physically possible).

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Time for a Wedding!

Dany’s Empire keeps expanding, but maintaining control of these new cities proves more difficult than perhaps expected. Dany decides that the best compromise to stabilize her reign is to marry Hzdahr zo Loraq.

Whites, purples, burgundies, fringe, it’s all here. (And Dany’s hair is growing back out slowly but surely. I struggled with this one y'all this is my 2nd attempt with this redesign.)

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The Girl is No One

Arya has made it all the way to the House of Black and White in Braavos. She is an acolyte and thus wears the non-cowled robes with the inverse colors of the full members/Faceless Men. Her hair has grown out a little and is braided up around her head.

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Ellaria and the four younger Sand Snakes.

Ellaria and her four daughters with Oberyn. The younger four Sand Snakes don’t get a lot of description so far, but I really wanted to try drawing them all together anyway.

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Sarella Sand

Oberyn Martell’s fourth daughter. Her mother is the Captain of the trading ship: the Feathered Kiss. Sarella is insatiably curious and loves Oldtown.

Which coincidentally is where she is for the majority of the books so far. Chasing down knowledge and studying furiously. It is also for this reason her clothing is much more subtle, even medieval as Oldtown exists in it’s scholarly detachment what is “new” in fashion affects it less, instead people dress for functionality and temperature.

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Tyene Sand

The third oldest Sand Snake is Tyene Sand. She is Prince Oberyn’s daughter with a septa and was raised with her cousin Arianne Martell in the Water Gardens. Tyene may occasionally lark as a Septa, but don’t let her fool you. Tyene is a master of poisons, and just as deadly as her sisters.

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Nymeria Sand

The second oldest Sand Snake is Nymeria Sand. Daughter of Prince Oberyn and a noblewoman from Volantis. She is described as “elegant and vengeful”. She frequently conceals a dozen blades on her person and at least on of her book-described outfits is a yellow silk gown sheer enough to see the spun gold and jewels beneath.

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Obara Sand

The eldest of the infamous Sand Snakes, daughter of Oberyn Martell and a woman from Oldtown. She prefers martial pursuits to just about anything else and considers herself a warrior. She wears breeches and calf-length tunics for the most part.

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