From a queen with a soft and noble fashion style, through seven seasons of movies, Cersei Lannister has become an autocratic queen with a tough and masculine appearance.
After a long, impatient wait, Game of Thrones fans also enjoyed the last season of the series. The first episode of the 8th season launched on April 14 became a mass cultural phenomenon, attracting tens of millions of viewers around the world to follow. Through 7 film seasons, the number of characters has decreased significantly. The rest of season 8 had to go through a tough journey to survive until the present. One of them is Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) and we can easily see how much she has changed through fashion in the film as well as the hairstyle.
Throughout the seven seasons, the costume designer of the series, Michele Clapton portrays the events and historical events of the Lannister family through Cersei's sophisticated costumes. Not only exalted the beauty of the proud daughter of the richest family of Westeros, every dress Cersei wore also contained stories of ups and downs in power and fate.
In the first seasons, Cersei's fashion films are feminine and traditional: colorful, colorful dresses and wavy blonde hair. The sexy gives her power, because it was the only thing she had at the time.
She often wears a red dress, the color that characterizes the Lannister family. When Joffrey came to the throne and she began to feel more powerful, not only the colors but also the accessories. This is when Cersei wants to emphasize the power of the family.
Around this time, the image of a lion head was in everything Cersei wore, because it was the symbol of the Lannister family. It appears in collars, belts, shoulders, and even in embroidery patterns.
Then, when Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) appeared, a "war" of fashion broke out in parallel with the war of royalty. Young, attractive Margaery, who is loved by people and is a threat to Cersei's power, because both of them want to take advantage of Joffrey for their own purposes. Dressed in sexy Margaery to show off her beauty, and Cersei is more and more gorgeous and luxurious to show her power.
The culmination of the "war" between Cersei and Margaery is at the Purple Wedding event of Joffrey and Margaery. At that time, both were dressed nicely to confirm their position. Margaery wears a wedding dress to reveal sexy bare backs and deep V-necks. While the Cersei dress is embroidered with many typical Lannister motifs to show its status and influence. It was also the first time that all three investors had eyes on a necklace. This ring appears a lot in later episodes.
Maragery Tyrell's wedding dress features a charming body and youthful beauty.
Cersei is a discreet but splendid dress.
Clapton shared that she was inspired by Alexander McQueen's funnel-shaped dress that singer and songwriter Bjork wore in the 1997 album Homogenic. Initially, this kind of collar appeared only briefly in Margaery's outfit, then Clapton repeated it on Cersei's long dresses and gradually became his character's power symbol throughout many episodes.
Bjork wore the dress of Alexander McQueen on the cover of the 1997 album, Homogenic. (Photo: Elektra Records)
Cersei in season 3, with a Bjork inspired dress.
But even at the Purple Wedding, Joffrey was poisoned to death, starting a cycle of Cersei's pain, loss and humiliation. This greatly influenced the fashion in her film later.
Not long after Joffrey died, at the end of season four, Cersei lost his father. Although Tywin was not a good father, always despised her because she was a girl, Cersei still loved him deeply and deeply grieved after his death. After the departure of two of the people Cersei loved the most, her outfit gradually shifted to dark gloomy tones.
Cersei's outfit at Tywin's funeral.
Fashion in the Cersei film during this period has been transformed. She started wearing black and the lion's head with three heads constantly appeared, as well as the return of the funnel-shaped collar. Although sad, but when Tommen, the youngest son on the throne, Cersei did not forget to strengthen his authority. Because Tommen thought after all was still a child and the real power remained in her hands.
But then the darkest period in Cersei's life began to come. Myrcella's daughter was killed to avenge her murder of Oberyn Martell. Later, she was captured by the Great Bird when her cousin Lancel confessed their illicit relationship, as well as the incestuous relationship between her and Jaime.
Cersei was imprisoned and had to wear a dirty, disgusting dress. Long hair symbolizing pride, femininity and charm were also severely cut off. But the most cruel thing, she was forced to walk in the nude on the streets of King's Landing, chased away by the people and throwing everything dirty into her. This was also the moment when the shield she had created for herself was completely broken. We have never seen Cersei so weak and fragile. However, after that event, Cersei was not completely collapsed but as if he was reborn as a completely different human being - a Cersei was increasingly cold, cruel, authoritarian with strong and male costumes. count.
When he regained his power, the first thing Cersei did was to resolve those who had opposed her. In the last episode of season six, she set up an explosion to kill Margaery, many members of the Tyrell family, the Great Sparrow and even Lancel. And we have the opportunity to witness one of the most military suits Cersei wears on me.
But Cersei's complacency didn't last long, because as soon as Margaery died, Tommen committed suicide, causing Cersei to lose his last child. However, this also helped her to officially sit on the iron throne. At the enthronement ceremony, she wore the Lannister lion's mouth, dressed in the same clothes that Tywin had worn. This is both an act to commemorate his father and at the same time mock him, because he never considered her intelligence and talent.
Cersei's outfit was on the throne: a leather jacket with small round holes identical to the one Tywin wore, the shoulder was decorated with metal to confirm her strength and toughness now.
The shirt that Tywin used to wear.
There are no longer dresses with stylish, sophisticated designs, no longer wavy long hair full of femininity. Now, the queen's outfit is only a thorny and masculine black, because she has achieved what she wants and must be stronger to retain it.
It can be said that Cersei Lannister is one of the best built characters, has the most obvious change and development in Game of Thrones, both psychological, personality and fashion in the movie. According to some hypotheses, Cersei might be pregnant again, meaning that her outfit will continue to change to match the development of a pregnancy. Let's see how this character's outfit will change in the final episodes of the movie.
