Couture Dresses We Will Be Seeing on Reign Soon

Alright people, start placing your bets. The Spring/Summer 2015 collection and the Fall 2015 previews are up on Vogue UK, and mark my words, you’re going to see at least one of these outfits on Reign in the coming seasons.

Everyday Dresses

Split these up any way you want, I think we’re definitely going to see these gowns make it onto the show over the course of the next season. I can see Greer wearing this Reem Acra gown for some reason. Maybe it’s the blonde hair?

I can so see Mary in this Valentino gown:

Hell, I can see her in these other Valentino gowns as well:

The show should probably just be considered a big product placement ad for Valentino, honestly.

Pretty sure we’ve seen something not unlike this Jenny Packham ensemble on the show before. The wardrobe department seems to like the sweater + long full skirt combo:

Kenna, am I right?

Ah, Reem Acra. Nothing says Reign like a chiffon skirt paired with a bosom-bearing gold embroidered top.

Wedding Dresses Two and Three

Remember, Mary has a total of three marriages, meaning we get two more wedding dresses in the show, unless the show writers can’t be bothered to look up that fact. For Mary’s second wedding to Lord Darnley, I think we are going to see a continuation of her naive approach to matrimony. She’s young! She’s a princess! She’s marrying the handsome bisexual heir to the Lennox dynasty!  I think this gown, by Ralph + Russo shows a more mature ownership of her sexuality, abandoning the prudishness of her first wedding gown. It’s still white and princess-y, though.

For wedding three, we are going to see an older, wiser Mary as she marries the barbaric Earl of Bothwell. Is he her savior? Or is she his victim, bullied into marrying him out of the need for protection against the Protestant militants who took her second husband’s life? Mary is going down a treacherous path with this marriage, and she knows it, yet she feels she has no other alternative in her hostile Scottish court. This gown by Alexander McQueen is the sort of look I imagine her wearing for her late-night shotgun wedding to Bothwell.

Mourning Gowns One and Two

Mary outlives all of her husbands which gives her a good excuse to go full-goth. For her first period of mourning, I think this little number by Alexander McQueen will pop up at least once. The show already has a preference for putting Mary in McQueen’s body-contouring gowns, which makes this black lace dress a no-brainer.

For mourning period two, Mary is away from France now, and back in her native Scotland where she is the sole ruler of an unruly kingdom. I see her as a tragic figure, gazing through a strip of black silk netting, the chill Scottish wind whipping at her black silk chiffon robe. Fortunately, Chanel knows what I mean and has kindly given us this gown. I will cry if it doesn’t make it into the show at least once.

However, I want to see Mary pull out all the stops and go full blown diva. Widow’s weeds are getting old. She’s still hot, though, and she’s still queen (barely), and she’s fresh out of fucks to give. This black gown with chiffon cape by Alexander Vauthier captures this perfectly, I think.

Imprisonment

After a year married to Bothwell, Mary is forced to abdicate the throne of Scotland for being a royal pain the ass/Catholic. Mary hauls ass to the English border and begs her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, for protection. Elizabeth is only too happy to help, and by “help,” I mean “imprison Mary in a cold, dank castle in the middle of nowhere.” Mary passes the time by embroidering all the things, including this dress by Badgley Mischka.

Beheading

What, you didn’t know she was going to get her head chopped off? Well, sorry but there’s no spoilers in history. In real life, Mary wore a red kirtle to her execution, so I think the show is likely to pick something like this for maximum effect:

And yet, there’s a tiny part of me that hopes they’ll put her in something like this Valentino gown, because butterflies symbolize hope and the soul or some other uplifting bullshit like that:

Do you have an outfit for Barbie, Queen of Scots? Share it with us in the comments!