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So y'all really loved the pics I took at the Fashion & Fantasy exhibition in Prague... Great news! I have about 500 more and will be posting them for everyone to nerd out over 🙂‍↕️
I'll go outfit by outfit, and I have videos of the whole exhibit walkthrough style!
This is of course one of Moiraine's beautiful Cairhien outfits from Season 2 (spot it in ep 8)
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Lady Damodred with her handrolled cigarettes. If cigarettes they be.
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(prints available here)
Tar Valon
Caemlyn
Illian
Manetheren
Evening in Cairhien
Whitebridge
All art by aedart (wot.fanart) also u/aeddub
“Cairhienin offend you by being Cairhienin, Rhuarc. Leave them be. Who knows, maybe they will eventually learn enough that you won’t have to hate them anymore.”
Someone was whining that the Cairhienin were doing cultural appropriation, and someone else pointed out that the Aiel are the conquerors here.
(I'm still mad that these idiots chose "cultural appropriation" as the word for "tried to copyright something from another culture." People always appropriate culture from each other. It's part of being human. The problem isn't using elements from other cultures. The problem is when someone tries to copyright something that comes from a cultural tradition, especially if they're not from that culture. Once again, we need to choose our words better.)
This is the third night awake for Moiraine and NOW SLEEP is NOT AN OPTION ???
(a painful summary)
She left Lan, rode all night and arrived in Cairhien in the early morning, looking a little disheveled
She was tired after looking for signs and clues all day
But then...
she ran to Rand, slayed a forsaken, got almost choked, ran and rode through the forest and had to walk back to Cairhien
Rand reminded her painfully that she is powerless
She is f*** exhausted
But
SLEEP IS NOT AN OPTION
because:
I would not blame her for falling asleep
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NOT THE FUCKING CHINESE-LIKE SASH WITH THE GODDAMNED FRENCH SILHOUETTE. FUCKING BLESS. AND THAT COLLAR? DFLJKHKHKLADSFSLAKFJLSDKJFDLS WHAT THE FUCK WOT COSTUME TEAM, WHAT. THE. FUCK
So I finally gave in and I'm watching The Wheel of Time on the mother's Amazon Prime.
I've enjoyed it thus far. Season Two is far more exciting than Season One, naturally, since the latter had the utterly unenviable task of setting up all the main characters and the general world; but I was delighted by the fact that in the very first episode Rand wears a woolly jumper.
The costumes in general are just excellent, really. There's the inevitable leather waistcoats and standard medieval fantasy outfits, but Season 2 in particular have really pushed the boat out with the Seanchan and I'm totally in love with Cairhien:
And I love Sharon Gilham's inspiration for the designs:
Gilham cites the cultural influences in Cairhien being Japanese and French. She notes, “I gave all the cultures in The Wheel of Time a color palette as well as a set of silhouettes which made them instantly distinctive and different from each other. In this case I combined Japanese kimono shapes with exaggerated skirts with full petticoats in the style of traditional French costume.” The diadem indicates Moiraine’s social standing, while other crowd members will wear headdresses reminiscent of French traditional headwear.
Nerdist: GET AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT THE WHEEL OF TIME SEASON 2 COSTUME SKETCHES; written by Amy Ratcliffe
It's bizarre; in my day-to-day life I really don't care much about clothes or fashion, but in fantasy or science fiction it's the make or break for me. Do I believe that people in this culture would actually wear these clothes, or are they just meant to populate a background? But again, right from the get go, Rand was wearing a woolly jumper. Matt was wearing what, to my eyes, was basically an ankle length cardigan. We get to see Anvaere putting on each piece of her outfit, showing us how it all works. Suroth wears layers! So many layers of robes!!! Most certainly I believe that these characters would actually wear these clothes.
Who else has been pronouncing "Cairhein" CARE-hine for the last 20 years lol
