Game of Thrones costume designer Michelle Clapton has done some wonderful things. However, when the pics of the Sand Snakes (no, I won’t spoil it for you) surfaced earlier this year with armor that clearly showed nipples, fans weren’t exactly thrilled. Clapton agrees. She said it was a mistake. Clapton spoke to New York Magazine’s The Cut, saying, “You’ve picked a bone of contention!” Clapton laughed. She told the Cut that “it certainly wasn’t my intention” to have nippled armor. “I’m not terribly keen on it,” she added. “I don’t see the necessity for it. You don’t do it on men.” Well, except the famously ridiculed Batman suit. “Yeah, okay, that. But I wouldn’t do it on men, and I don’t really like the concept of it on women. Of course you have to have the woman’s shape. That’s fine. But [nipples on armor] is almost from a man’s point of view, and there’s something slightly cheesy about it.”
Well, that certainly makes me feel better. It didn’t exactly do Batman any good. She said it was part of the process, and that they usually sand it off of the structured molds. “They sand it off to an extent, but they didn’t do it as much as I wanted them to.” Did she know it was coming? “I had the same thought as you. I was surprised when I saw the picture. But I didn’t notice them when I was there. And sometimes you can’t go back and change things.”
Game of Thrones returns to HBO this Spring.