Minimalism and badassery: From House of Cards to Empire, 6 TV characters who use neutrals for power

With the third season premiering today, February 27 officially marks the end of our year-long wait for more House of Cards.

This means we’ve had a lot of time to think. (Arguably too much time, but good luck trying not to.) So after the initial shock of season two’s finale wore off, we finally began processing the costumes, characters, and what each mean in the big scheme of things.

Surprise, surprise: it turns out that Claire Underwood and her neutral crisp, clean wardrobe follow a pattern. One that connotes madness, mayhem, and all sorts of imbalanced power—all at the hands of the wearer, whose clothes help her blend in and escape.

This gave us the excuse to round up the best and brightest characters (literally: these women love wearing white) of TV and movies to prove our theory. Fortunately for them, they’re in good company since Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney and Marni followed suit by leaning towards sharpness and subtlety for Spring 2015 too. (Meanwhile, The Row and Céline did the same thing, just a little darker.)

See the minimalism trend on the Spring 2015 runways

Here we examine the costumes of six of television’s most notorious badasses:

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