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Princess Leia And Natalie Portman Greatly Influenced The Design.
The Star Wars movies are plagued by bad choices.... there's no doubt about it. But within the mess, there are always gems. This is especially true for the prequel series, even though there are things about the three movies that make no sense . But given how maligned the Disney sequel movies were, it's easier to see how brilliant much of the prequels were .
While the dialogue in The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith left much to be desired, so many of the details in the movies were pretty incredible . This is especially true for Padme Amidala's wardrobe, which was downright creative. Although Padme's costumes in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were dynamic and interesting, they pale in comparison to the pomp and circumstance of her outfits as Queen Amidala in Episode I.
Here's the truth about her wardrobe...
Thanks to StarWars.com and their fantastic oral history of The Phantom Menace , we know that concept artist Iain McCaig was tasked with designing both Darth Maul and Queen Amidala before George Lucas even had a script... just a general outline. This gave Iain a lot of freedom. In the article, he described how he approached both characters like Beauty and the Beast... but without the romance. The darker and more beast-like his designs for Darth Maul became, the more beautiful and exotic the ones for Padme became. And a lot of this was reflected in her wardrobe...
"First of all, we were only going to have one costume, and I just kept drawing all these costumes," Iain McCaig explained to StarWars.com. "George finally came up and said, 'Well, why don’t we do this. We’ll have her change costumes every time we see her.' And then later, 'Oh, my God, I’m making a costume drama!' He was shocked himself to realize that."
Given that Princess Leia in the original Star Wars series was always meant to be Padme Amidala's daughter, Iain McCaig was greatly influenced by Leia's cinnamon roll bun hair.
"I thought, 'Okay, well, if this is her mom, maybe her mom’s hair was even crazier.' Right? And that just made a mark on Princess Leia. Of course, I didn’t know that she wouldn’t have remembered her mom. But that was my through-line."
Iain also admitted that he was greatly inspired by Natalie Portman.... even though she wasn't yet cast as Queen Amidala...
"Every time [I did the design] I would start with Natalie Portman, because I had seen her in The Professional," Iain explained. "I counted the years from that to this and realized she was exactly the right age for the queen, and I just kept drawing and drawing and drawing her because I loved her face. George came up to me at one point and said, 'Do you know this girl?' And I said, 'No, sir, but she’s your queen.' And lo and behold, she was cast shortly after!"
The strong beauty in Natalie's face inspired much of her hair designs and even the upside-down heart-shaped lipstick.
"There was a very powerful upside-down heart shape, and I needed something powerful at the bottom. This design happened right as the idea of 'Space Nouveau' took hold. I remember we were searching for that through-line for an earlier Star Wars, and I thought, 'Well, yeah, it’s handmade, it’s artist-made, so it must be a kind of Space Nouveau.'"
The idea of Art Nouveau is inspired by plant forms and nature in general. And this was something that greatly influenced the prequel series, Padme's costumes in particular.
"So fresh off of that epiphany, I was doing this costume, and I thought, 'Oh, my God, she should have plant forms!'" Iain said. "So I put all these seed pods down at the bottom of her costume and colored them up, left them bright for some reason. When George was looking at it, he goes, 'Iain, what are those?' You think on your feet, and I went, 'Oh, they’re lights, George!' He said, 'Oh. Won’t that be kind of heavy, down there at the bottom of the dress?' 'Oh, no, they’re very light lights, George!' I quickly called ILM and went, 'Help! There are these lights down at the bottom and they’ve gotta be really light and I don’t know how to do this!' Bless their heart, they made one."
Costume designer Trisha Biggar claims that the throne room grown with the lights was by-far the most complicated costume in the film.
"It looks quite simple in terms of shape; in terms of construction, it was quite a complex dress to make," Trisha told StarWars.com. "It started off being built onto a frame with sort of a canvas undergarment. The whole thing was almost like an upside-down ice cream cone in shape, with lots of panels being reinforced with a thing called crinoline steel, which kept the shape quite rigid. Originally, I was making the dress in velvet. I changed from that and used a red silk. I think it was between 20 and 30 panels, and it took about two months to make. It was quite a long process, because it had to be really precise. There were hanging panels, and the collar — there was a Chinese Imperial feel. The other big influence was Art Nouveau, and you can mix influences. It was a favorite of mine. Now there would be lots of different ways to light it, but then there were less. So it had a great big battery, but you can’t see that, so that was good."
Dylan Parker is a list and content writer and editor working for Valnet Inc. since 2017. He's written for TheTalko, Baby Gaga, Moms, and Screen Rant. Currently, he is both a writer and an editor at TheThings where he specializes in entertainment, film, and celebrity news. Dylan has also written for Narcity and various other entertainment, food, and travel publications.
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" It definitely did come into play how strong and smart a character Carrie Fisher portrayed, because I think that a lot of that is passed on from parent to child. I think George wrote Amidala as a strong, smart character, but it helped to know that I had this great woman before me who had portrayed her character as a fiery woman. "
―Natalie Portman [3]
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