Everything Hannibal wore onHannibal

Keep your eye on the pocket square.

Hannibalended on Aug. 29, 2015.

The NBC drama was wild, strange, scary, romantic,Sopranos-esque, just plain great.

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We miss it for many reasons.

Ahead, we honor Hannibal’s style legacyin chronological order from the pilot onwards.

(A shout-out toHannibalcostume designer Christopher Hargadon, Hannibal’s three-piece purveyor since day one.)

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Eggshell tie on eggshell shirt, with matching eggshell pocket square.

It’s a look that says: “I am a trustworthy medical professional.”

Your dad’s second-favorite tie paired with a brown blazer and a red pocket square.

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Nothing to be afraid of, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy).

(On this show, “Tie-Optional” means “Up To No Good.")

“I’m here for you,” says Hannibal’s face.

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“I am Shiva, the God of Death,” says that tie matched with that jacket.

His tie representsLaw & Order.

Whereas Hannibal’s tie representsLaw & Order: SVUfanfic illustrated by Hieronymus Bosch.

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Another study in contrast.

Look at Hannibal’s overcoat (powerful, passionate, impeccable buttons) and Will’s everything.

Concrete gray and puke magenta?

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Everything that follows between them will be a fashion intervention.

A closer look at that tie grants us an opportunity to Rorschach some deeper meaning therein.

What do you see when you look at that necktie?

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Personally, I see a drop of meteorite sperm cried from the 15th eyeball of Cthulhu.

Up to no good in a tie-optional combo of that yellow-black blazer and a zipper-free sweater.

Letting his hair down and his vest breathe with Alana (Caroline Dhavernas).

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1, but with more patterns this time, because the madness rises.

Thought bubble over this outfit.

I’m just the humble manager of a successful brokerage concern!”

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Note how Hannibal is making the same expression as the pocket square.

Hannibal’s most and least subtle outfit: The devil-red shirt/square combo.

Before dinnertime, a gentleman only removes his jacket if he is planning to put on an apron.

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Hannibal’s bathrobe is obviously an homage toNumber Six inThe Prisoner.

Or maybe it’s a kimono?

Hannibal’s kimono is obviously an homage to Number Six inThe Prisoner.

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Dinner with friends, back to plaid.

Red patterned tie on a red shirt, symbolizing the nefarious allure of the forbidden.

Red patterned tie on white shirt.

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Symbolizing the battle between good and evil.

Stare into that tie long enough, and it becomes the “Night on Bald Mountain” scene fromFantasia.

The tale of the lonely yellow pocket square, cast adrift upon the Great Sea of plaid teal.

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Return of the Yellow Pocket Square.

Never has a paisley tie looked more like a slumbering mystical serpent of lore.

In episode 6, we meet Frederick Chilton (Raul Esparza), eternal pretender to the throne.

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Chilton doltishly pairs an ill-patterned tie with a licorice-candy-cane shirt and a tan blazer.

Obviously, this means war.

And when Hannibal goes to war…

…he reveals his full power with a casual unbuttoning.

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GAZE UPON YOUR PAISLEY DOOM, FREDERICK CHILTON.

Midway through the first season, Hannibal decides to stop fooling around.

Thus, vest on salmon.

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Thus, vest plus rolled-up sleeves.

Thus, a rare moment of de-vested glory.

Because sometimes it is merely enough to let your tie breathe.

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In Hannibal’s world, skinny ties were never invented.

Nor whatever we wear now instead of pocket squares.

Clean white shirt = Normcore Lecter.

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Black tie over an apron = Food online grid Lecter.

Fun fact: The last ten outfits?

All from the same episode.

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Some people want to be Hannibal.

Not Franklyn (Dan Fogler).

Franklyn just wants to be Hannibal’s pal, theJimmy Olsen to Hannibal’s Clark Kent.

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So impressed that Tobias earns a dinner invite.

Another day, another pocket square.

A vest with lapels.

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The only appropriate punishment: Death by skull-bludgeon.

Now, many people have noted the symbolism of Hannibal’s chosen instrument of bludgeoningthe stag sculpture.

But take a closer look.

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Do you see what Hannibal wraps around that stag sculpture?

Pocket square:Out.

Hello, muted palette!

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Goodbye, muted palette!

Hello, Mother’s Garden Necktie, making its first non-flashback appearance in glorious rose-red color!

Counter-evidence: Will Graham, human incarnation of cargo pants.

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With the suspicion off Hannibal, he de-mutes himself.

Dig the goldenrod gradations manifesting across this necktie-shirt-square combo.

“Goldenrod gradations” are both words, right?

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Why so sad, Auburnscale Hannibal?

Could it be because your best pal is suddenlywearing a black vest over a henley?

Meet Dr. Sutcliffe (John Benjamin Hickey), potentially serious threat in the Medical-Professional-Will-Loves-Most sweepstakes.

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Aesthetic: Light antiseptic tones, the angel versus Hannibal’s dark-hued demon.

Weapon of choice: A tie clip.

Sensing a threat, Hannibal invites Dr. Sutcliffe over for dinner.

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Sutcliffe stumbles out the gate with a black suit.

Technically, this is a four-piece suit.

(note that he is still wearing his watch and the Mother’s Garden necktie.)

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A new tie, so colorful.

But that blue pocket square?

Starting to feel a little last week.

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And so now is the time for the dawn of a new age…

WITNESS THE RISE OF THE RED POCKET SQUARE WITH YELLOW TRIM.

OH MY GOD, IS SHE WEARING THE MOTHER’S GARDEN TIE?

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Will’s gone mad.

Time to go full Merlot.

Like, say…a tie?

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“Not wearing a tie” is Hannibal’sHeisenberg Hat.

A moment of triumphal plaid demands the Mother’s Garden tie.

Season 1 ends with a blue shirt, a brown plaid vest, and an overcoat.

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Season 2 begins with a flashforward to apocalyptic calamity: Hannibal’s shirt, creased.

Eat your heart out,Chuck Bass.

Difficult to pull off.

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Not impossible, obvs.

A new tie, featuring spotted outlines of playful whales.

Whoever he’s eating, they couldn’t wear paisley.

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Bold fashion choice of the season: Hannibal begins accentuating his pocket square with a visitor’s badge.

See: A montage of two men preparing their neckties.

The best-dressed man at every crime scene.

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The single most offensively beautiful tie anyone has ever worn.

I know, pretty boring look for a testimony, right?

Well…

HOW ABOUT SOME HORNS?

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Also note the new polka-dot pocket square.

Polka-dot pocket square > Jack Crawford’s badge.

Further adventures in fashion: pairing the visitor’s badge with blue latex glove.

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Return of the pretender: Chilton’s back, now with a snazzy new cane.

Requiring heavy artillery, Hannibal brings the red pocket square with yellow trim out of his carbonite container.

Surprised by an early caller, Hannibal casually dons a morning sweater.

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You’ve seen the tie.

You’ve seen the jacket.

Now see them with carefully placed symbolic horns!

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Wearing a suit made out of Jack Nicklaus' golf pants, Hannibal catches up onMr.

If you think about it, a noose is kind of like a necktie.: Sweet trunks, bro.)

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Chilton cannot handle the ascot.

I’d watch an entire spinoff about those guys.

Let’s call them “Emerald Jacket and Checkerboard Jones.”

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Hannibal takes off his tie for a late-night piano session with Alana.

His intentions must be pure, right?

Remember that morning sweater?

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Thrill to the paired pajama bottoms.

This is what happens when Hannibal Lecter gives you a makeover.

Lesson learned: Dr. Lecter doesn’t like tie clips.

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It’s all a scam, of course.

His black polka-dotted pocket square belies his melancholy.

In a dream sequence, Will gives Hannibal another noose-tie.

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Hannibal makes it work.

A new tie, modeled after the Turkish rug they buried Hoffa in.

The show’s deepest layers expressed via fashion.

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See Will Graham, torn between two extremes.

Will he choose the earthy embrace of Jack Crawford’s goodness, his brown overcoat, his simple-geometric-forms tie?

Or will he choose Hannibal, cast here in darker shades with a red scarf-and-tie combo?

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Hannibal understands the seriousness of Mason’s threat.

He goes to the Verger estate, wearing dapper leather gloves.

But Mason anticipates the fashion attack, wearing a pair of his own.

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A new painting:Ponderance in Maroon.

I think that tie has a watermelon on it.

Pairing a tan vest with a plaid jacket.

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A clear sign of frayed nerves.

Reeling, Hannibal goes orange-on-orange.

Mason loans him a jacket.

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Hannibal makes it work.

Mason loans him a pig’s head.

Hannibal makes it work.

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The season 2 endgame approaches.

A nice clean shirt to prepare dinner.

Spoiler alert: Won’t stay clean.

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New life, new tie.

GoingFull Brandowith a leather jacket.

Totally not interested in that dude’s scarf game, either.

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GoingFull Bondwith a red bowtie and a white pocket square.

Black pocket square on light brown suit.

A bold pairing of a classic bowtie with a postmodern projected-hallucination facemask.Kanyehas already co-opted this look somehow.

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Things are going great for Hannibal in Italy.

His pocket square occasionally resembles the folded leaves of a succulent plant.

A horrifying flashback to Hannibal’s turtleneck days.

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Modeling sharp obsidian, Hannibal ponders misspent turtleneck years.

With a new tie.

Nobodyevertalks to Hannibal like that.

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Having flushed out the pest, Hannibal settles back into casual bowtie bliss.

But this pensive sweater is a sign.

He’s dreaming of Will, and workshirts, and gray-brown sweaters.

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And Will is dreaming of Hannibal, and what could have been.

That pocket square, though.

It’s like peacock feathers for the heart.

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Literally the only time in three seasons that Hannibal’s shirt is ever untucked.

In a moment of reminiscence, Hannibal gives in to the turtleneck.

Reunited and it feels so good.

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Clearly, Will has not learned his lesson about what happens whenever Hannibal isn’t wearing a tie.

What happens, part 1: Hallucinations of Dream-Hannibal rocking the magenta look with a bold whitescale jacket.

What happens, part 2: Hanging upside-down in the pig truck.

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(I would argue that Will’s shockingly specific blood splatter constitutes a tie.)

At last, the showdown with the Great Pretender.

Mason Verger has armed himself well.

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It’s not just the tie, or the checked jacket.

At last, Hannibal has met a nemesis daring enough toattempt the pocket square.

Hannibal finds Mason’s assault positively delightful.

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Or maybe it’s because…

…Will FINALLY looks presentable!

Ladies and gentlemen: Witness Three-Piece Graham.

Another day, another tie made of ropes.

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Caught by law enforcement?

A low point, to be sure.

But only because Hannibal looked all around Wolf Trap and couldn’t find a single solitary checked plaid vest.

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But the good news is: Hannibal still gets to wear Will Graham.

And the great news is: At the asylum, there’s always the opportunity to accessorize.

Good night, paisley.

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Good night, plaid.

Good night, pocket square.

Good night, Dr. Lecter.

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Good night,Hannibal.

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