Daenerys Drogon Neck Sculpture

Behind The Scenes

This epic neck sculpture was the first piece created by the collaboration between Michele Clapton and Yunus & Eliza

The collaboration between Michele Clapton and jewellers Yunus & Eliza first came about as Michele was designing Daenerys Targareyn’s costumes for Season 5. She realised that in order to complete the looks she would need some strong, sculptural, iconic pieces of jewellery to represent her elevated yet fragile status.

This Drogon Neck Sculpture was designed to show Dany’s strength and her respect and relationship with her dragons. There is a link to the slave collars in the way the neck piece fits, clinging to the neck, yet defiant.
“The purity of the white dress and pure silver of the neck piece was designed to visually remove her from the fight pit that she disapproves of. To set her apart”. Michele Clapton

“Michele wanted to create something cool and fierce for the character of Daenerys Targaryen, as she develops towards the end of season 5. We worked closely together over numerous design meetings and fittings to create something that really worked with Emilia’s body and to create a neck sculpture that encircled her throat with both the feeling of protection and slight menace that the dragons represent. We hand sculpted the dragon in wax over several weeks using fine carving tools and then cast it into Sterling Silver using the lost wax process” Yunus & Eliza