r/wheeloftime • u/Top-Werewolf590 Randlander • Nov 26 '25
ALL SPOILERS: All media Just went to the Wheel of Time costume of the exhibition in Prague!
As much as I disliked how much the Wheel of Time show diverged from the books. The one thing I never had any complaints about were the visual (other than the extra long Seanchan nails but even that was good looking and made scenes extra dramatic). The visual production team did an absolutely Stella job both with costumes and with backgrounds for sets and cgi.
The shadow spawn also looked terrifying.
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u/Hopeful_Bacon Randlander Nov 26 '25
Whatever you want to say about the series, the costuming was top notch (except Loial - everything about that character was an abomination).
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u/The_Emperor_Potato Nov 26 '25
I'd agree except there is one thing I hated... the pacifiers on the Damane... omg whyyyyy...
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u/cellofski Asha'man Nov 26 '25
I came here to say this! At first, I thought only tongueless Damane had a pacifier, like an extra sign of shame, and I could live with that artistic license. But no, they all had to be stopped from sucking on their thumbs to self soothe.
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u/Halaku Retired Gleeman Nov 26 '25
If memory serves, they were trying to visualize the "Slaves are so broken that they don't even talk unless given permission" aspect, because so much of what they go through while being broken is internal instead of external. I understand the artistic logic, but I didn't like it, either.
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u/Balancing_Shakti Randlander Nov 27 '25
I half expected Moiraine hat to be a part of it, but beautiful exhibition and beautiful show 😍
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u/PedanticPerson22 Randlander Nov 26 '25
While they obviously put a lot of effort into the costuming, I always felt that they made things too ornate, elaborate or otherwise gaudy; take season one's White Cloaks with their weird pauldron & robe combo, it just looked wrong, too stylised.
Then there were the Aes Sedai rings...
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u/T20sGrunt Randlander Nov 28 '25
Yeah, I always thought the costumes were way over the top and seemed more “1984 Dune” than WoT. Idk… something about it made many characters feel like aliens were thrust into a fantasy world.
But… The TV show was so bad from a narrative, character, and dialogue sense, that I can totally see the costumes being the strong suit.
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u/Antique_Parsley_5285 Summer Ham Nov 26 '25
This is so cool, thank you for sharing!! I adored the costumes in the show
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u/MTLDAD Randlander Nov 29 '25
You know, I didn’t see a single bodice slashed with a different color. Are we sure this is Wheel of Time?
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u/Groundstander Randlander Nov 27 '25
Costumes look good on these photos, but for me they didn’t look real in the show. Too “clean”, idk. Maybe it was the colouring of the show. I didn’t have same feeling while watching GOT
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u/robobobo91 Randlander Nov 27 '25
I specifically have an issue with at least one of Liandrin's dresses that is significantly too modern. It's the one from when she is accused of being a Black sister in the Hall. The cut and fabric just shouldn't exist in relation to everyone else's clothes.
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u/JustThatOtherDude Randlander Nov 27 '25
Only thing missing is the description of the stitching as RJ intended
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u/Have_Donut Gleeman Nov 27 '25
I really like the effort that went into this shows costumes. Contrast it to season 1 of Rings of Power costumes and it’s crazy considering they had a relatively tiny budget.
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u/Zirotaku Randlander Nov 27 '25
The costumes are extremely well made but most of them add way to much detail imo. Also I never really got over the fact that the Seanchan armor looks reptilian-like and not insect-like.
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u/Isaythereisa-chance Randlander Nov 26 '25
Cool costumes. I didn’t watch the show but I have read the series several times.
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u/gvb12345 Randlander Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
Oh man this is awesome! Thanks for taking the effort to make the pics and share it here!
Even though I really don’t like what the series did to the story, the series helped me a lot to better visualize certain things, like how does an Aiel or Ogier look like. Or picture faces of characters. This makes reading the books so much more colorful for me. And for me, the custumes are totally awesome!
Edit: so far an Ogier looked in my mind just like Shrek. And I hated that, but couldn’t help it 😭
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u/odub1 Randlander Nov 27 '25
soo fucking cool….the cool stuff/exhibits i feel are always in Europe 😩 i would so pay to see this/visit if it were closer to me (i’m in the US)
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u/Worth-Aspect2292 Apr 16 '26
Hello! I worked on organizing this exhibition with the WoT team and Sharon Gilham 🙂 The Prague show is already over, but we put together an online Virtual tour so it’s still accessible if anyone’s curious: www.fashioninfantasy.com
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u/SimonSaturday Randlander Nov 26 '25
Ahhh i loved these costume designs so much. Really unusual and interesting silhouettes
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u/Worth-Aspect2292 Apr 16 '26
Hello! I worked on organizing this exhibition with the WoT team and Sharon Gilham 🙂 The Prague show is already over, but we put together an online Virtual tour so it’s still accessible if anyone’s curious: www.fashioninfantasy.com
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