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yiliy · 5 months

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"Natalie Portman had numerous costume changes in Revenge of the Sith, but she loves what they called the deep blue 'end dress,' which she wore in her coffin in the funeral scene.

'I think Trisha [Biggar] wanted an ocean sense. Someone said to me it was very ‘Ophelia.’ With the flowers and the hair, it does look like I’m drowning'."

a 2005 article by Patt Diroll about the Star Wars prequels' costume exhibition at the fashion institute of Design and Merchandising museum in Los Angeles for the release of the book Dressing a Galaxy: The Costumes of Star Wars.

#Star Wars #Natalie Portman #Padme #Amidala #Padme costumes #Amidala costumes #Trisha Biggar #Star Wars prequels #Padme funeral dress #Padme Naberrie #Revenge of the Sith #Revenge of the Sith costumes #RotS #SW prequels #movie costumes

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lady-arryn · 15 days

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PADME AMIDALA costume appreciation: ▶ The Phantom Menace [1/9] (costume design by Trisha Biggar)

#filmedit #costumeedit #starwarsedit #swedit #padmeamidalaedit #prequelsedit #star wars #tpmedit #the phantom menace #**#*gif #*star wars #*padme costumes #i've been working on this series for a little while #but it's finally done and i'm really excited to share it <3

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valyrianpoem · 6 months

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Natalie Portman as PADME AMIDALA Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) ↳ deleted scenes

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overly-dramatic-artist · 22 days

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The Princess of Castle Faz from “Pluck My Heartstrings” by @pluck-heartstrings

It’s not much, but I really really wanted to draw the Princess in some pretty dresses <3

#mandys drawings #pluck my heartstrings #fnaf oc #yeah it’s padme’s lake dress #i can’t help it the prequel trilogy has such incredible costumes

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haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted · 4 months

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Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - Padme Costume Designs by Ian McCaig

#Star Wars #Star Wars: Attack of the Clones #Episode II #Padme Amidala #Costume Design #Concept Art #Ian McCaig #Sci-Fi

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lenoreamidala · 7 months

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(some) favorite padme outfits

#padme amidala #padmeedit #sw edit #swedit #star wars #star wars prequels #sw prequels #costume design #costumeedit

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go-see-a-starwar · 1 year

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make her the Met Gala theme

#padme amidala #fashion icon #no one’s done it like her before or since #natalie portman #padme naberrie #attack of the clones #revenge of the sith #costumes #prequels #met gala

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cressida-jayoungr · 9 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

August: Fantasy & Sci-Fi

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones / Natalie Portman as Padmé Amidala

This is one of Padmé's most understated and (in my opinion) underrated outfits. Attack of the Clones is the movie where they tie her costuming most closely to that of her daughter Leia, so here we see her in white with a modified version of Leia's side-bun hairstyle. (The dress looks pale blue or grey in some lights, but seems to be actually white.)

#star wars episode ii #fantasy costumes #scifi costumes #natalie portman #star wars #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #attack of the clones #padmé amidala #padme amidala #2002 films #2002 movies #star wars attack of the clones #star wars episode ii: attack of the clones #tricia biggar

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djloveyou3000 · 7 months

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Art by kelldar

#outfit #costume #padme amidala #starwars #star wars concept art #star wars #padme amidala outfits #padme outfits

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ddeck · 27 days

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that blue dress and smock combo Padmé wears on tatooine is so tajik coded to me

#persian/central asian padme is so important to me. she gives me all the feelings the humanity has ever experienced at the same time #also whoever wrote a description for it in sw costumes guide magazine im stabbing u repeatedly with a spear for calling it primitive lookin #im talking about the one in aotc btw

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offbrandnatureink · 9 days

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Reasons I like the prequels:

The vibe is lighter. I don’t know if I can explain that. The clones. Obi-Wan. Padme��s outfits. There might be some others but these are the main ones.

#star wars #padme amidala #saw prequels #obi wan kenobi #commander cody #sw clones #my thoughts #costumes

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lady-arryn · 9 days

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PADME AMIDALA costume appreciation: ▶ The Phantom Menace [2/9] (costume design by Trisha Biggar)

#filmedit #costumeedit #starwarsedit #swedit #prequelsedit #tpmedit #padmeamidalaedit #padme amidala #star wars #the phantom menace #**#*gif #*star wars #*padme costumes

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valyrianpoem · 5 months

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ANAKIN SKYWALKER and PALPATINE Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) ↳ deleted scenes

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transmalewife · 2 years

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so back in my overanalizing pretentious fuck days I vaguely remember wanting to write a meta about the madonna whore complex in star wars costume. and while I still think theres a lot to work with there,

(like, a lot)

I'm just gonna focus on padme right now, specifically Padme's hair because something really interesting just hit me.

look at this for a moment

this is the most virginal imagery imaginable.

let's get the obvious out of the way and say the blue dress and shawl are almost on the nose references to the virgin mary (maybe a hint at luke being the real chosen one?). But more importantly, in so many cultures around the world, loose long hair, especially combined with flowers, is associated with young girls. there are countless traditions that dictate that women, once they get married or come of age, should wear their hair up, covered or short.

(this might be a good moment to disclaimer that I am very transgendered and irreligious and none of this analysis is coming from a tradwife mindset. it's coming from a 'this is the archetypes that exist in our culture being very clearly and skillfully referenced here')

her dress is made to look like flowing water, carrying flowers. in slavic cultures, on the summer solstice, young women would make flower crowns and throw them into rivers, so potential suitors could fish them out downstream and court them. They would also wear flowers in their hair on their wedding day, and after that, they would cover it with a kerchief. and those traditions still live on in some form in europe today. most girls in my class got their hair cut short after first communion. women still throw bouquets on their wedding day.

There are in universe explanations I could invent here, from the easy 'this is just naboo funeral tradition' to the political "they wanted to distance her from the secret marriage to spare her family the shame of the scandal" but i'm frankly not about all that. and now that i've noticed this, I can't ignore it. all throughout rots padme is shown with her hair down (partialy. will come back to that), and wearing long gowns and hoods. The virgin mary imagery remains in the cut of the velvet hooded gown, in the blue drape of her nightgown when she cries on the balcony, and the, also baby blue, nightgown she wears when anakin has his nightmare literally looks like 1950s sexy lingerie.

(Also, a note here that I'm not willing to let spiral into a tangent, is that she almost always, and iirc, only, wears blue when she's either on tatooine, or when it's just her and Anakin. And then in her coffin.)

We know, from lucas, from the costume designer and art director, of two costumes that were purposely designed to make her look sexy, romantic, seductive. The corset in the fireplace scene and the iconic lake house balcony dress.

That makes sense. Those are the scenes where she's falling in love with Anakin, but the corset is extremely restrictive both visually, (and physically, according to natalie portman.) She's wearing metal bands around her head, the scarf looks like a noose and prison bars at the same time, and her hair is pinned up tighter and closer that in any other costume (except maybe on mustafar). She's not allowed the freedom to live in the fantasy of their forbidden love. She's imprisoned in the conventions of her station, quite literally trapped by her clothing.

And while the lake dress does look very free and loose and open, which is what she's tying to let herself be, flirty even, her hair is still quite literally behind bars, (and that type of headwear repeats in many of her costumes) as are her neck and arms.

Worth mentioning that in the floral picnic dress, her hair, while the shape is quite obviously meant to reference Leia's buns, is still held neatly in place by hairnets. This isn't the typical imagery of a young woman enjoying her freedom, frolicking in fields of flowers for the last time before she puts her hair up and grows up.

Padme didn't get to grow up, because she was never a child. In tpm her costumes are heavy, royal, extravagant. they not only hide her hair, but her face and body as well. Because she doesn't really matter. The costume, the crown, her duty matters more than the child underneath. There's quite literally six more of her. (Leia goes through something similar, in that she only ever gets to let her hair down after a battle is won)

Thinking of the costumes in tcw for too long makes my blood boil so i won't linger too long, but the moment Padme takes off her wig to reveal long flowing hair underneath, implying that the short bob she wore for much of the show is also a wig, is incredibly important here. This is a girl who finally got one thing for herself. She got her summer fling turned secret marriage, the first thing in her life that isn't controlled by appearances. and the mask is starting to slip. she wants the freedom, she wants the dreamlike lakeside romance back. she's wearing a middle aged mom wig over her childish waist long curls.

The traditional, deeply ingrained in so many cultures in the world narrative of young girl with flowers in her loose hair, then braids, then cut short and/or covered with a scarf is entirely flipped here. We're introduced to her when she's barely a teenager, but already wearing the elaborate, heavy headgear of a medieval queen. Even when she's "undercover" as a handmaiden on Tatooine, her hair is up in tight, elaborate braids.

There are a lot of obvious east asian influences in her royal costumes, bordering on appropriation in some cases (like, frankly, the entirety of star wars) which I would not feel comfortable ignoring, but don't have nearly enough knowledge about them to properly explore their meaning and symbolism.

In aotc, she's 24, she's no longer a queen, but even when she's trying to act and look young, her hair is still pinned tightly up. Her gowns on coruscant are still elaborate and restrictive, but we start seeing her in more intimate situations, at home on Naboo, by the lake. (And she spends a good chunk of the last two movies in her pajamas)

I had originally written "she can quite literally only let her hair down around anakin" here, but on second thought, no. Not really. In the scenes I was thinking of, the scenes she's in a nightgown, her hair is loose and long, yes, but always in a half up half down situation. Even in her simplest nightgown, in the first ever pajama scene, the one in her apartment in aotc, a basic white chemise, without any of the capes and tiaras and lace we see on her other sleepwear, her hair is still pinned up.

She's at her most vulnerable, sleeping, literally acting as bait for an assasin, without any of her senatorial regalia to protect her, but her hair remains controled. (I could say something here about that being the scene where Anakin barges into her bed waving his lightsaber, but lets just keep things tasteful and move on.)

In rots is where we first see her hair actually loose for the first time, though it's still covered by the hood of the velvet gown. Her costumes become simpler, less decorative, to create a cohesive image with the entire galaxy becoming more drab and colorless as the war goes on, heading towards the fully grey hellscape of the original trilogy. And we see padme specifically in more intimate, personal situations, most of her screentime is at her home. She's growing up into her housewife role, but for her that means freedom. For her that means letting her hair down and sinking into the fantasy of running away to Naboo with Anakin and raising their 2.5 kids. But the first, and only time we truly see her with her hair fully loose and uncovered, is at her funeral.

another thing unworthy of a whole tangent here, is that corde dies with her hair falling apart, out of her updo. All the senatorial power that the costumes and the headdresses afford dissolves in death.

I could note here also that this is a weird way to emphasize the tragedy of a 27 year old woman dying in childbirth by associating her with youth. this is tragic regardless. the tragedy here is she never got to have that stage of her life. she never got to grow up, to be a mother. She remains, in anakin's memories, the 14 year old angel, the 24 year old rolling in the grass like a teenager, or rushing alongside him into battle without fear, and the wife in her sexy nightie waiting for him to come back from the war. In the galaxy's eyes however, she will always have been the strong queen, and the tragic martyr, taken before her time. Not a child soldier and a woman who died because she broke the rules and dared to fall in love.

Padme never gets the freedom of childhood. She only gets to let her hair down in death. Did she want it? Is it Naboo releasing her from her responsibility posthumously, or is is another denial of her freedom. She was a ruler when she should have been a girl, and she dies a child when she was ready to grow up.

#This isn't the 'there is no sex in sw' meta i mentioned this morning btw just another thing that has been languishing in my drafts #padme amidala #star wars meta #star wars costumes #star wars #mine.#id in alt

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susanoosama01 · 3 months

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King of Naboo like his mother before him.

#star wars #sw #star wars fanart #luke skywalker #luke skywalker fanart #artists on tumblr #my art #in this au din meets him l #endgame dinluke #padme amidala picnic dress #my favorite costume

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fiatluxillustration-portfolio · 11 months

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