#winter is coming

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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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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