The costume vault

Good day, beautiful readers!! The votes are in. The poll has officially been closed. It has been quite a tight race, but we have a winner! Without further ado, with the 26,2% of the votes, my next article, as chosen by you, will be...  Padme's Annex covering the costumes for Revenge of The Sith ! With a bit of luck, next week it will be done and delivered into your anxious little hands. I'll try my best. As for those who voted for any other option, fret not, I will also get around writing them. I  can't really guarantee when, but I  will do it at some point. Thank you so much to all of you who've participated and shown so much interest, and also to all of you who follow, support and shower the blog with love. Thank you! I must say that some of you have really made me quite emotional with your responses letting me know for how long you've been reading this blog, and I'm so incredibly touched. To know that something that started as a hobby and that is basically a ...

The same way that Padme's character becomes less and less relevant as the prequels progress, so do the designs. That's why most of the designs of Episode III are hardly remembered. The most iconic costumes of the characters, those that everyone remembers, are from the first two prequels. That doesn't mean that there aren't good designs in "Revenge on the Sith", because there are. The main problem is that her pregnancy, and the fact that she needs to hide it, places such limitations on the designs, that most of them end being too similar and not very interesting. Still, I'm going to continue this series of articles about the real historical influences behind the costume designs of Padme Amidala in the Star Wars prequels with a few designs from "Revenge of the Sith". The first of these designs I will be breaking down will be the "Peacock Dress". Padme was supposed to wear this somber dress during a meeting with Chancello...