Adidas unveils it's official Game of Thrones collaboration

House of Lannister trainer

Adidas has just announced its official collaboration with the hit HBO series, Game of Thrones.

This new collection of Ultra Boost sneakers is comprised of six distinct pairs that are inspired by various houses and characters from the acclaimed fantasy series: House Stark, House Lannister, the Nights Watch, the White Walkers and two different versions of the House Targaryen theme.

Each pair comes with the shows logo emblazoned on the insoles of the sneakers as well as each house's logo and motto printed on the heel tag and tongue.

The Adidas x Game of Thrones collection drops on March 22 ahead of the final season's premiere on April 14.

Retail price: $180

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GOT: Cersei's black gown had hidden meaning

Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton imbues meaning into every single aspect of the cast's outfits. In a new interview with HBO, Clapton revealed that Cersei Lannister's black gown she wore to the Dragonpit had a subtle hint about her lying schemes.

Though we barely saw the back of the dress, close-up images released by HBO on their Making of Game of Thrones blog shows how Cersei's gown had a spine-like design up its back.

Clapton said she knew Cersei was lying about pledging her forces to Jon and Daenerys, and this was conveyed through the dress.

“Something about the slashing and the twisting told you a lot about her character, a contradiction of the costume from the front,” Clapton told HBO. “It's almost like a sting in the tail, something on edge as you see her walk away: there's something really disturbing about this woman.”


The back of the gown was barely seen in the finale episode, and yet this detail was there as a way of foreshadowing Cersei's betrayal.

Game of Thrones fashion designer explains the details we missed

Every tiny detail on Game of Thrones is important. Fans know it, and that's why they pay attention to everything, from Sansa's hairstyles to characters' split-second facial expressions. But one of the most reliably theory-generating (and just pure fun) parts of the show—is the costume design. From the unexpectedly fashun looks of uber-villain Euron Greyjoy to what Ed Sheeran was wearing in his controversial cameo, every bit of GoT clothing that appears on screen can be significant.


Those of us who spend every second of the week dissecting Sunday's episode have Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton to thank for her easter-egg-filled, minutely detailed work. Clapton creates hundreds of costumes every season, but during her time off from the HBO drama, she's not exactly resting. She brought that same level of attention to the first season of Netflix's royal drama The Crown. Her equally detailed, rich work on that series has landed her an Emmy nod, and while Clapton has previously scored three Emmys for GoT, she's excited to be recognized for more realistic pieces.

Michele Clapton

"It's nice to nominated for something else," the costume designer tells ELLE.com. "Initially it was quite strange to work on The Crown. We decided we had to be very correct about key pieces—we couldn't afford to get something that everyone knew about wrong. It was quite intense. With a fictional book, no one really knows, but obviously with The Crown everyone knew what it should look like."

Despite the differences between the two shows, Clapton found common ground in creating costumes for powerful women who needed to be able to showcase both their strength and their vulnerability onscreen. Clapton is always interested in inserting "codes" into her work: small details that reveal something about the character or the story but that might not be immediately noticeable. The costume maven shared some of these particulars with us; here are the delightfully subtle easter eggs that come into play in both hit shows. While she couldn't dish on future episodes, she confirmed a few things for us about the "warehouses full" of GoT costumes—and yes, Sansa is definitely feeling Littlefinger's influence.

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How Game of Thrones is influencing the way we dress

Sansa Stark

"Fallen kings, defeated by a fearless and heroic sisterhood. Bright and brave warrior queens they were, are, and forever will be.” You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d tuned in to a medieval fantasy, but not so — these were the notes handed out to journalists at designer Elie Saab’s haute couture show in Paris earlier this month. He couldn’t have made the plotline any clearer: Game of Thrones, the television epic that returns to the box this week (Sky Soho and Neon from Monday July 17) has found a place on his mood board.

Since the show first aired in 2011, parallels have been drawn between Game of Thrones and, say, the revival of folksy appliques at Dolce and Gabbana, or the wave of Roman gowns at Valentino and Alberta Ferretti. Most would say that the influence was subconscious, but a few brands, like Helmut Lang, have declared more literal interpretations, with Manish Arora even playing the theme song as his catwalk backing music in 2015.

Fans obsess over the visually rich, fictional world rendered by British costume designer Michele Clapton and the army of embroiderers, jewellers, seamstresses and armourers that she employs to clothe the Seven Kingdoms. Their costumes provide a subplot, highlighting a character’s power or weakness, as well as distinguishing tribes, status and climate.

Perhaps most importantly, they define characters that are worthy of being placed on pedestals as fashion plate, both by viewers in search of escapism and by designers. “Costume is always a fundamental device to present a character’s personality,” says Michele Carragher, the principal costume embroiderer, responsible for crafting the micro-details that we salivate over in HD. Working with Clapton, she “will discuss a character’s backstory, traits, and personal journey within the script and this will all go towards influencing my design”.

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From Elizabeth I to high fashion, the tales behind Game of Thrones' costumes

Game of Thrones, which returns today for its seventh season, offers fantasy, horror and intrigue, and, as Sarah Mower has put it, shines a light on “our cynical, sophisticated, brutal, hopeless new Dark Ages”. It is also great fun to watch as a fashion expert, whether you are a “pedant” who needs everything to be historically correct, or a “swooner” who doesn’t mind if it is not.

The show is infamous for its ability to brutally shock audiences. Such visceral, sensorial overload can mean that the breathtaking beauty of the costumes — and especially Michele Carragher’s stunning embroidery – is sometimes lost on viewers.

It may be fantasy, but, if we take the time to look closely, we can see myriad historical influences, from medieval northern Europe to 1960s Balenciaga. Designer Michele Clapton’s claim that “we were never bound by the rules of any particular time period” is certainly true. The influences are scattered and often not consistent, which makes the discovery of them all the more piquant.

Whether a particular influence was the designer’s intention or not is, in many respects, unimportant. As with literary analysis, television dramas are an art form open to interpretation.

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