I know this is an adaptation of Anne Boleyn, but imagine a Velaryon woman in this fit with THAT makeup and hair?! She would eat the whole sveen kingdoms im afraid

i wanted to follow up on this post by taking a closer look at the evolution of Viridia's costumes through the season, in particular the colors. in the early episodes, we meet her wearing diaphanous white nightgowns. she doesn't leave the house; her defining characteristic is that she was a wife but is now a widow

when she finally hits the town in episode four, it is in a very pale yellow, only lightly adorned

and then at the party in episode five she is again wearing a pale yellow (in contrast to the deep burgundies/maroons of Cossutia & Cornelia), but this time with much more jewelry—it's a party, after all!

but then something interesting happens: she sees Achillia for the first time, and immediately begins questioning a woman's place in Roman society. at the end of the episode she finally makes an appearance at the arena, in a pale blue that i think will become something of her signature

in the next episode she is again in a light blue, this time in a slightly bolder color (and with even more embellishment, as she has been gussied up for a social call with the fabulously wealthy Cornelia). it is here that she expresses to Ashur her desire to be more than a wife in a house full of pretty, empty things

when we see her at the beginning of episode seven, she is in an even bolder shade—she has begun truly coming into her own

and then at the market she is in a more greenish, almost minty blue, perhaps pointedly complementing her mother's dress

at the beginning of episode eight, she is in yet another bold blue, this time closer to her signature shade, almost cornflower. it is here that she seductively flirts with Ashur over a game of latrunculi—the most confident and self-possessed we have seen her yet

alas, it is not to last. by the end of the episode she will have had a choice put to her: whether or not to marry Pompey; the good of the Republic, or Ashur & her own desires. it is here that we finally see her in a new color as she has made her devastating choice—the lavender/lilac of duty & heartbreak

and then it's wedding white, calling back to the beginning of the season—she has chosen, after all, to be a wife, a woman who sits around a house full of pretty, empty things. this white, however, has a slight tinge of lilac grey to it

and finally we are in mourning mode, the customary black

and in the arena at season's end, still attired for mourning, she is in an earthy, even drab brown, a sharp contrast from all the airy whites and blues

some of those pale yellows and blues earlier in the season almost call to mind Lucretia's Gods of the Arena powdery pastel wardrobe (a time when she was relatively innocent), albeit on a grander scale—Lucretia, of course, came from much humbler beginnings. i've noted before some surprising moments of similarity between Viridia and Lucretia, and i wonder if next season, after Uncle Servius has been properly dealt with (one hopes), we will begin to see Viridia in more dramatic reds and oranges as her bloodlust grows, or whether her Feminist Blue (for lack of a better description lol) will reassert itself.

So I might be reading too much into it, but these, which Ashur wears often around his house (mostly at night or when he is comfortable) contrasts with his more Roman-style clothes he wears to try and fit in with the rest of the romans in society.

Ashur is often, if not always refered as The Syrian by the Romans because of his origin, as well to set him apart because while he has gained his freedom and a house of his own, he is still seen as nothing but a gladiator and if anything, a man who betrayed his fellow brotherhood and friends for power and status, and else, freedom.

But these clothes show Ashur wearing what I feel are defenitely Middle Eastern inspired clothes. It defenitely feels like it's Roman-Eastern style hybrid with strong Near Eastern and Mesopotamian. The style are of those of loose, flowing garments similar to kaftans or chiton-like robes. The geometrical shapes and patterns are not something we see in the show in the Roman clothes. Bold angular motifs, zigzags, and repeating shapes.

The colors he wears too are bolder and stronger than those in Roman clothes. So this defenitely feels like a way to differentiate him from those on screen who perceive themselves as "purely Roman". He might be now part of the bunch but he is not part of the circle. Both for the romans themselves, the audience and internally, Ashur himself, we all know he is not belonging to them.

felt the urge to do a run where all the companions look like they fell out when i shook a box set of 80s sword and sorcery movies

and of course a tav based on sarah from the labyrinth and princess lili from legend

Silvana Venturelli in The Lickerish Quartet (1970)

Carole Bouquet in Mystère (1983)

Tribute to 102 of my favorite and some of the most iconic Movie Costumes (part 1/17)

Cleopatra 1963 (Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor), Costume Design by Irene Sharaff, Vittorio Nino Novarese and Renié; Alice in Wonderland 2010 (Alice, Mia Wasikowska), Costume Design by Colleen Atwood; To Catch a Thief 1955 (Frances Stevens, Grace Kelly), Costume Design by Edith Head; Great Expectations 1998 (Estella, Gwyneth Paltrow), Costume Design by Judianna Makovsky; Interview With The Vampire 1994 (Lestat de Lioncourt, Tom Cruise), Costume Design by Sandy Powell; How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2003 (Andie Anderson, Kate Hudson), Costume Design by Karen Patch and Carolina Herrera.

Historians have called the way the wind plays with O'Hara's veil when she leaves the church after her wedding a stroke of luck for John Ford. Far from it, he had instructed the crew to set up wind machines to fan the veil into a perfect circle behind her head then blow it straight up into the air.x

HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) | dir. John Ford

Costume Design by GWEN WAKELING