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A video ranking Padmé’s wardrobe would actually be a dream come true. As a child I’ve always loved her costumes, and the costume design of the prequels as a whole.

Honorable mention to Jessica Rabbit who should be on this list as a animated/live action film character

The santa claus dress from mean girls definetely made an enormous impact on pop culture!

Fairy Godmother’s red I Need a Hero dress is literally iconic. No one can ever wear a similar dress without someone making a reference to her

Padmé’s throne room gown is even more special than most people realize. The white makeup was also intended to erase unique features, while the large elaborate headdress was designed to distract from her face. Both techniques made it easier for a decoy to step into her position. Also, as heavy and restrictive as it may appear, her throne room gown was well equipped for an emergency, with blaster-proof coating, concealed weapons and recording devices, and even an escape hatch allowing her to literally “evacuate” her dress if need be.

As a Mongolian, I loved Padme's red dress! I remember immediately recognizing it's inspiration from Mongolian traditional bridal attire, felt kind of surreal. I think it's suits the movie and the character really well.

I am on my knees BEGGING for a Padme Amidala style analysis video. Her costuming, while inconsistent in its references, was just divine. I’d watch the hell out of you breaking her best outfits down for us

the red Padme dress being included made me SO happy, and tbh i'd love to see a style analysis video on Padme's clothing throughout the prequel movies!!

Padmé’s gown in The Phantom Menace was always my favourite Star Wars costume growing up!

Just a fun detail to add, the green dresses Mina wears in Bram Stoker's Dracula were also a reference to her sexuality, not innocence. She's shown to be repressed, secretly reading porn and jealous of Lucy's freedom. Lucy also wears a very revealing green dress while she's flirting with her three suitors. When Dracula comes into Mina's room, the mist he transforms into is bright green, and they reference absinthe and the Green Fairy. So the red dress seems less like an awakening to her sexuality so much as an acceptance and realization of the sexuality that was already there. I imagine that it's not an accident that green and red are also opposites on the color wheel. I believe I heard that Eiko Ishioka was inspired by beetles, but I don't remember where. Green, while we often associate it with nature today, was also seen as a color of sexuality and promiscuity for many years. In the Elizebethan era, a "green gown" was a reference to getting grass stains from having sex outdoors. The song "Greensleeves" has a few interpretations. It's either about a promiscuous woman (or prostitute), or the singer mistakes her for being promiscous and is proven wrong. It's a fun thing to research if you make a "Best Green Dresses in Cinematic History" video!

7:13 i’m glad you mentioned the deleted scene because it really puts more context in how disheveled Rose is and how trapped she feels. They should’ve left that in the movie.

The red dress from Gone with the Wind still takes my breath away. It's just so gorgeous (and so is the actress). I've never seen the Dracula movie, but I think that red dress is gorgeous as well!

For the orange dress, I love Marilyn’s dress in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Effie’s Butterfly dress in Catching Fire🧡

I remember watching the red dress scene in Last Holiday and being speechless and completely captivated by how beautiful queen latifah looked in it! I looked at my sister and told her I wanted that dress to be my prom dress😍 I myself was considered a plus size black girl in those dreadful 2000s and queen latifah always looked beautiful on screen to me! Thanks for adding that clip, The nostalgia is so bitter sweet it made me feel the same as when I first saw it 2006!!!

Titanic and The Phantom Menace are the films that gave me my earliest appreciation of costume design, so I'm happy they're included! On the horror side of things, I really appreciate Lucille's deep red dress that looks like dripping blood in Crimson Peak, and the red dress with the big bow worn by Mia Goth's character Pearl, in the prequel to "X" from last year.

Satine’s red bustle gown from Moulin Rouge will always be my favorite cinematic red dress! She was in it only briefly but it was so impactful!

I love that you included Last Holiday. Whenever my beautiful mother says some nonsense about being too big to be glamorous, I remind her of Queen Latifah in That Dress. Maybe not the most "serious" movie, but so iconic!

I think Vivienne's red dress in Pretty Woman is so iconic and really is the moment people begin to see her differently. The red dress in You Before Me. It is the moment the relationship becomes more serious. And finally, the red dress from Only You!! The dress that Marisa Tomei finds her destiny in. If you haven't seen that movie, I HIGHLY recommend it. The chemistry of Robert Downey Jr. and Marisa Tomei is off the charts in that one!!

Amidala will forever be my favorite. I actually think all of her costumes will always be my absolute favorite for any one character ever. The designs are so next level and all fit her character and the world of Naboo so well. Literally couture on screen. Don’t know if they will ever be topped

My prom dress was inspired by Rose's Red Titanic dress. I had gotten it at Fashion Bug in 1999. It was originally priced at $60 but I had gotten it for a steep discount I think around $10 because there was a tear in it but I know how to sew and it was in an out-of-the-way place and I was able to repair it so that you could not tell it had been damaged. I still have that dress somewhere and I had gotten a lot of use out of it besides just my senior prom

Scarlet O’Hara’s red gown from Gone With the Wind is breathtaking.

i now need an analysis of all of Padme's clothes!! But seriously the costumes in the prequel were definitely such a stand out vs the Skywalker trilogy.

It kind of makes sense that in Titanic Rose doesn't have crown! Her family declining, her mother literally trying to sell her to the rich guy, it's very possible that crown was sold to afford dresses and tickets, since dresses is vital part of society and crown is optional

One reason why I love Gone With the Wind's costuming, is that there were still people who would have experienced and lived in those clothes and were still alive.

Scarlett O'Haras' dress is one of the best red dresses I've ever seen in cinema along with Pretty Woman. I didn't know the implication of the rouge line, I thought it was because she would be blushing from embarrassment. But now that line has a whole new meaning, Rhett Butler can really sting when it's deserved, honestly one of my favorite male characters of all time.

Scarlett’s red dress is ICONIC. The still photo of her standing in the entry way with the cocked eyebrow is perfection🙌 and there’s the red coat on the little Jewish girl in the black & white film Schindler’s List. Such a small detail, yet so powerful.

If i had to make a second part of this video, i would add Lucille's Sharp red dress from Crimson Peak and Pearl's red dress from Pearl. I know that they are more recent compared to the other movies, but those dresses are so pretty!

The red Victorian gown Jessica Chastain wears in her introduction as Lucille in Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak would be on my list, honestly. The level of detail Kate Hawley threw into that dress is awe-inspiring. You know EVERYTHING you need to know about Lucille the moment you meet her just from that dress alone. How, while well maintained, it's a decade old to signify her decaying economic status. How the stiff, high necked structure tells you both her sour personality beneath politeness. How the color ties her to the red clay of her home. Even how the train resembles a pool of blood, and the bodice ties resemble a spinal column to symbolize her true corrupted nature. ARGH! SO GOOD!

I’ve always loved Elizabeth Swan’s red dress in the first POTC, the one the pirates gave her to wear when she boarded Barbosa’s ship. An edgy contrast from the champagne gold dress she was gifted from France earlier in the movie.

the red dress the fairy god mother wears in shrek 2 is just 😍 ugh iconic

Scarlets dress on Vivian Leigh in GWTW, that whole scene with her framed in the doorway and her look of defiance, is the GOAT. It's beyond iconic.

I love that Tim Burton picked out Lydia's dress specifically. I always loved the puffy material, despite it not being the most desirable circumstances. Also, I adore the more in depth analysis. ❤️😍

I know this is more about fashion but I instantly thought of the Little Girl in the Red Coat from Schindler’s List. That scene is so powerful. The Red Coat being one of few colors in the black & white film. The symbolism.

This is a great list. Thank you for including Last Holiday! It's a beautiful gown. I immediately thought of Nicole Kidman's dress from Moulin Rouge and Julia Roberts Pretty Woman.

Michelle Pfeiffer's red dress in The Fabulous Baker Boys as she writhes around on top of the grand piano is one of Hollywood's most iconic looks!!!

Though I know that this list is only for live action dresses, Jessica Rabbit's iconic red, sparkling gown was always eye catching to me. ❤️

The entire fight scene in House of Flying Daggers, both lovers were completely dressed in red, beautiful scene. Director Zhang Yimou knows how to play with color, there is also this gorgeous scene where they are all wearing green which made them blend into Japan bamboo laid forest.

So glad you included Padme 👏👏👏 her wardrobe was amazing in all 3 prequels but the red dress is very special.

I am SO GLAD you've included The Dressmaker in this film!! What a spectacular piece of Australian cinema.

For an arguably orange dress, the handmaiden outfit in the Phantom Menace that is ombre dyed from yellow to orange with the red scarf around the waist. I think that she wore it on the ship after they picked up Anakin from Tatooine. There was a lot of tutorials back when the film came out in in the following 10 years or so on how to ombre dye velvet. Also, the some Queen's dresses from Mirror Mirror are definitely in the orange family. Or maybe gold. It really depends on the screen that I watch it on.

So glad the costume design of 102 Dalmatians gets a mention here. One of my favorite film scenes ever is when Cruella reverts back to her old self, shown in how her hair and costume changes as the scene progresses.

I just love love love the costumes of Gone with the Wind so much, to me, Vivien Leigh's dresses are the most iconic in the world

For the next orange dress episode - surely Marilyn’s/Loralei’s orange evening dress is on the list! That walk in moment is so iconic ✨🧡

Belle’s (Lea Seydoux) red dress from the French Beauty and the Beast is beautiful and is worn when she returns to save the Beast, acknowledging her love. Also from the cdrama Goodbye My Princess Xiao Feng’s red dress, which she’s wearing when she’s first introduced and is the most free in the whole show. Afterwards, every other red dress she wears is a wedding dress in two consecutive tragic weddings

Nice take on Gone With the Wind! Especially how the red is used to contrast with her signature green. Because Scarlett is driven by green, envy, and spite but isn't particularly loving or sexual, which like you said red tends to symbolize.

I've always been mesmerized with Padmé Amidala's whole wardrobe. I'm very glad to see you highlighting it. If I had to add another red dress to the list I would choose any of the many Cersei Lannister's iconic silhouette, the character was defined by them.

Natalie Wood's orange dress in West Side Story will always be iconic !

I'm only a few seconds in and at the mention of purple, Rita Moreno's iconic West Side Story dress IMMEDIATELY came to mind. 💜

On the Scarlett O'Hara dress, I have a Barbie doll of Scarlett in that dress. It is the one doll I have kept in the box. It resides on the top shelf of the bookcase next to my computer desk.

So much respect for putting Queen Amidala's dress own this list. Then again, I'm probably bias due to the fact that I am a personal friend of her's.

Shoshanna’s dress colour could also be interpreted as her anger coming to the surface over the blood of her family being spilled and the fact she knows she will likely not survive the night - she dresses in the same colour as fire bc she knows the theatre will go down in flames

Vivien Leigh's red Gone with the Wind dress is hands down the most iconic red dress of all time.

I was really surprised you didn't include the red dress Julia Robert's wore to dinner in Pretty Woman (when she didn't know how to eat snails, and she got to wear the gorgeous necklace). It was the first one that popped into my head

So happy you included Winona Ryder's red dress. I always found it memorable, I recently found myself using it as a wedding dress reference when I had artist block. I like how youthful it is. It's really frilly and light.

Merilyns orange dress with Jane Russel by her side as they walk down the stairs among the rest of the guest had pure power

Glenn Close has been allowed to keep the costumes from many of her films and Broadway plays. She has donated the entire collection to Indiana University.

SO excited to see a revival of this series in the upgraded format! looking forward to the upcoming rainbow of dresses

This is such a great list, loved seeing Padme included. I know there are already so many victorian dresses here but I definitely think Lucille's red dress in Crimson Peak should be a contender! The craftsmanship and symbolism in that gown is astounding.

i'm so glad you mentioned scarletts red dress! i was almost named after scarlett as my mom was a huge gone with the wind fan. thankfully i ended up with a much more subtle gone with the wind fan name

Oh I know! My favorite red dress is from a musical called Once on this Island. A similar Little Mermaid story about a pleasant girl falling in love with a rich boy. Ti Moune is the girl's name and she wears a beautiful tropical red dress that was so flowy and when she dance - it just looked amazing on the stage! Plus, red is considered tacky in this island so for her to stand out and look beautiful is an extra chef kiss!

I remember as a kid being in awe of some of Curella’s outfits during the second movie especially the red one, also I won’t be surprised if in universe she designed it herself based on her ancestor's portrait or maybe another gown owned by said ancestor. I unfortunately don’t have a recommendation for orange but I do for blue and green. For blue Cinderella’s live action ball gown and for green any of her step mother’s green dresses.

I recall the yellow plaid skirt suit from Clueless. I hadn't remembered the red one. Also, really happy with the Gone With The Wind pick.

A few other red dresses can be a great addition 1. Hero- worn by Maggie Cheung during the sword fight with Zhang ziyi 2. Pretty Woman- red dress worn by julia roberts 3. funny face- worn by Audrey Hepburn 4. Death becomes her- worn by goldie hawn 5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit -worn by jessica rabbit 2. In the mood for love- Red Chipao worn by Maggie Cheung

For orange, the 2 that immediately come to mind are the Zuul dress from Ghostbusters, and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

I was DELIGHTED that you included that dress from Romeo and Juliet. That movie came out when I was in 8th grade, and I LOVED the costumes, especially that red dress!

I loved Last Holiday. It made me feel so special seeing her look so beautiful. I had never seen that before so I just love that movie 😭💕💕

this was absolutely incredible!! and on an overarching note, as a college student with a STEM major and minor, your videos that go into analysis of fashion in media make me so happy as it allows me to indulge my other passions!! never bored by your content 🫶

Scarlet O'Hara's looks are so dreamy and refined probably the best film wardrobe of all time. Marilyn and Jane's showgirl red dress in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes are iconic. Love Cruella's red dress too.

A video talking about all of padmes outfits would be amazing ALSO a whole video talking about every one of glen close's cruella outfits would be amazing too

Thank you for putting in Rose’s red dress from Titanic I am obsessed with it and I don’t think it gets enough love.. and omg the shoes that she wears with it!!

I've always love Padme's costumes, especially the rainbow-like one she wears on the balcony during her time with Annikin.

Shoshanna is one of my all-time favorite characters

I cant say whether its iconic from a dressmaking/costume design pov, but Satines red dress in Moulin Rouge will always be a personal favorite! Its the first that comes to mind when I think of red dresses in film

I would love if you did a video talking about Padme's looks. As a Star Wars nerd I would love to here from the perspective of a fashion lovers how good the costumes are. Because even though I am strictly a T-shirt and jeans only girl I love the costumes particularly in the Prequels. I would also just love a series where you talk about the costume design for all Star Wars not just the Prequels. I wish you had mentioned Katniss's dress from the first Hunger Games movie. Though she does have some great dresses in other colors too.

Wish you guys would make one of this lists for videogame characters iconic looks. Bella Goth would fit perfectly in this video

1. Jodi’s last dance in Center Stage. The red ballet dress embodied flourishing her full potential and her love of dancing. 2. Jessica Rabbit 💋

As a Mongolian khalkha woman, Padme,s red dresses, especially the one with the very khalkha Mongolian headwear, will also give me the ick. Every time I see it, I see something my great grandmothers had worn now being stripped of it’s history and culture and being used to look alien and weird. Too often I see a Mongolian woman‘s photo on the internet with someone commenting that she looks like Padme from star wars. No, Padme looks like her! Not the other way around.

Tale of tales...the costumes in that movie were so lovely, even the men's shirts were exquisite. The red blanket that the dyer wore after becoming young again in that was even more striking.

I love too the Pearl (2022) red dress. In the movie, Pearl and her mother are kinda enemies, going with different ideals, while Pearl is an aspirant artist, her mother is a rational realist woman. Pearl dreams to be a famous dancer, using even her mother old dresses to express this, what her mother always reprove, thinking she need to stop with foolish fantasies and just do her work. Looking to her clothing, Pearl uses more blue and red, blue to represent her fake innocence and calm, and red to explore her passion, fury and sexuality. After he kills her mom and later going to a dance presentation to finally make her dream come true, Pearl uses a red dress from her mother, representing both how the matriach figure is going to follow her everywhere but also how she wants to be recognized. Pearl fails in her test and even imagine her mom as a judge, showing the audience that her, even dead will be a torment to Pearl's life. In the end, Pearl accept her life in the farm and feel bad for her mom, finally recognizing that all she wanting was her good, and at the end is what Pearl wish too. So Pearl uses her mother's lessons to stay safe in the farm, ending the story kinda bittersweet about the events of the movie, so marked by blood and passion.

So many beautiful dresses, and so many great movies. The Dressmaker is fantastic

The suit and hat from the first appearance of Rose in Titanic is one of my favourite looks in cinema forever, It made me fall in love with costume design and fashion!

I LOVE that you mentioned Queen Latifah's red dress in last holiday, I love that dress, love that movie.

Blair’s Oscar de La Renta red dress, was also iconic!

The best orange dress is Lorelai's one from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Once I saw her walking towards the table with her matching chiffon scarf it was over for me, nothing could ever hold a candle to that moment!

So many of these red dresses were worn for their character's turning point moment! Wonderful video Tessa, and I'm happy to know the colors are coming in this long form video essay format. 🫀

It’s interesting that I think of the white dress in Clueless after the yellow outfit. I totally forgot about the red dress even though it was on promotional materials. That might just be me, lol. When I think of iconic red dresses, Julia Roberts’ dress in Pretty Woman, and amusingly enough Jessica Rabbit’s dress, which probably shouldn’t count since that’s a cartoon. I think most of this were great choices and they’re all well defended, though. More than I remembered off the top of my head!

Adding more red dresses & outfits (some unknown & some not so iconic ones): - Charlize Theron in Long shot - Lea Seydoux in la belle est la bete (every constume was iconic in that film ❤️) - Jessica Chastain in Crimson peak (that dress was something 😬) - Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing - Eva Greene in Dark Shadows - Emilia Clarke in Me before you - Julia Roberts in Pretty woman - nicole kidman in moulin rogue - Catherine Zeta Jones in Legend of Zorro (that outfit was very memorable 😍) - Milly Alcock in House of the Dragon s1 - Blake Lively in Age of Adaline - Milly Bobby Brown in Enola holmes - Jessica Rabbit - Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy - Cameron Diaz in the mask - Jennifer Lawrence in Hunger games - Rachel Cook in She's all that (jst memorable) - Goldie Hawn in Death becomes her - Michele Rodriguez in FF7 - Milla Jovovich in Resident evil (very memorable) - Elizabeth Hurley in Bedazzled - the symbolism in the death of Queen Mary of Scots altogether, the maid costumes in handmaid's tale💀, the girl in red in Schindler's list 😢 Music videos:- - Britney Spears in oops i did it again (not a dress, but it's iconic 👑) - Christina Aguilera in Lady Marmalade (the corset & the hair 😍) - taylor swift in i bet you think about me, Blank space, LWYMMD and album Red + her red lips (self explanatory) - Ariana Grande in Beauty & the beast Men in red: - Micheal Jackson in Thriller - Joaquin Phoenix in Joker - Leo Dicaprio in the iron mask - Gary Oldman in Dracula (obviously 🙌) - Victor Krum in HP-GOF (looked pretty cool) - Derek Zoolander 🙌 - DeadPool, Ironman, Spiderman, Hellboy 😁 ✌️

The opera dress from Pretty Woman was surprising by it's absence as was Monroe's how to marry a millionaire. To a slightly lesser extent Audrey Hepburn in funny face. (Though suspect we'll see her in black). Sadie frost has some amazing costumes in Dracula with her consummation scene orange dress (not actually a good dress but perfect in situ) and the white bridal death scene concoction. La reine margot has a fabulously impactful white dress too. The seven year itch being the Most iconic. I recommend Orlando for blue, bright star for pink and Marie Antoinette in general.

Yes! Last Holiday. I'm honestly crying. Thank you for recognizing this film and gorgeous red dress!

I’ve always though of Buttercup’s dress as orange. It’s interesting how people perceive colors differently

Audrey Hepburn's gown in the staircase scene of 'Funny Face'. Iconic! 😍

Rihanna’s red dress in oceans 8 was ICONIC

So many fantastic dresses. My personal favorite is the red dress Audrey Hepburn wore in Funny Face on the steps of the Louvre. Thanks for mentioning the Dressmaker. Kate Winslet looked amazing!

I would LOVE a video of you talking about The Fall, its an amazing movie that barely anyone knows about and deserves more love!!

The red dress Okoye wears during a car chase/fight scene in Black Panther should have been included it was very unique and quite empowering to see a woman absolutely kick ass while still looking feminine and glamorous.

Rizzo's Dress in Grease when she comes to the Dance should have made the list. A lot of symbolism in the color and style of that dress for what was set in the 50's.. it deserves on the list.

The red dress from the 1994 little women adaptation is a favourite of mine partly because of winona ryder. But still it's a lovely dress

Purple is my signature color. I dye my hair purple. I'm really looking forward to your purple dress vid. Thanks for pointing out that this is your taste, so there's no reason to argue. Instead of arguing, we can point each other in the direction of dresses we might not have seen and have more fun.

I adored the 'red' wedding dress from, Jupiter Ascending. Edit: Scarlett Overkill's dress and coronation dress was also great in matching her character.