Game of Thrones’ costume designer reveals the hidden meaning in Daenerys’ outfit

It was one of our favourite looks of hers.

But it turns out there was hidden meaning  to Daenerys Targaryen's icy white outfit, according to Game of Thrones' costume designer Michele Clapton. She explained the bright outfit that the Mother of Dragons had been wearing when she saved Jon Snow in season seven, and was still wearing at the beginning of season eight, was originally meant to be more practical than anything. Dany was flying to the North, so it made sense for her to be warm. "And then I decided that actually it's the first time she's performed a completely selfless task – because it's usually for her own gain – and on this occasion, it was actually for her love," Clapton told TV Guide. 

"So, I loved this idea, as I developed this costume, that it's almost [as if] she sees herself as this saviour, this angel. And so when she arrives and descends on this dragon, she is this sort of angel of mercy. I think it just said so much about her mental state at the time, how she saw herself."

Things definitely make a lot more sense now. It comes soon after Emilia Clarke revealed she was "in hell" while filming Daenerys' final big speech. The 33-year-old played the Mother of Dragons for all eight seasons of the HBO epic. However, as fans are no doubt aware, the last six episodes of the series saw her character take on a new path - which eventually ended in her own undoing. Entertainment Tonight report that the actress appeared in the featurette Death Is The Duty of Love from the Game of Thrones Season 8 DVD set, where she opened up about how it was "hell" to learn her final speech. "I knew that speech was going to be really important, and I spent a huge amount of time learning it. And for the first time in my whole Game of Thrones career, I got that word perfect," she explained, referencing the Dothraki-filled speech that Dany gave to her troops. "I'm being so brutally honest here -- I was in hell learning that speech. This pretend language was literally eating me up. I couldn't do it," she recalled. "And then, magic happened. I woke up in the morning, went on, and it all came out. I was probably fighting not what I was fighting, but what Dany was doing."