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Friday, July 22, 2016

How Sansa's Development Is Mirrored in Her Fashion Throughout Game of Thrones

io9.gizmodo.com: Game of Thrones isn’t just a pricey show because of all those CGI dragons, British actors, and exotic locales. It also has some of the most thoughtful creatives building props, sets, and costumes. Especially costumes.

Redditor fusionesque has already done an comprehensive examinations of the costuming choices for Tyrion, Cersei, Jorah, and Daenerys, and now they’ve turned their focus to one of the show’s other most dynamic characters, Sansa.

2 comments:

TroyFuze said...

As a huge fan of GoT I love finding little things like this that continue to attempt to unravel the genius of the process that is Game of Thrones. The reflection of Sansa's emotional development through her costumes is really apparent when you see the bookends. The completely white garments she dresses herself in during the first episode of the show as compared to the black clothes she wears when confronting Ramsay Bolton in the second to last episode of this season show how her innocence at the start of the show has endured hardship after hardship and so when she finally returns to her home after 5 seasons away, she is not the same girl who left Winterfell so long ago.

Lawren Gregory said...

What I love about this article is that it is very accurate. Not just to the character of Sansa in Game of Thrones, but for all characters in all shows. The clothing that everyone wears is representative of him or her. Mentioning Sansa wardrobe and how it has changed as she has grown is a create statement I think. What I wear today is very different than what I wore, even a year ago. As people grow, their style changes. It is nice to see that someone is noticing that Michele Carragher, the costume designer of GoT, is making an effort to show this. For designers, especially on shows that show such a long storyline this is sometimes a difficult task. It would be simple to have the same style for a character, but that would not make them as relatable. It is this sort of effort to connect the audience to the character that makes costume designers such an important part of any performance.