While Disney keeps introducing live action versions of its classic animated films, costume and production designers are always faced with the challenge of making attractive animated images look equally good in the real world.
Consider the Disney princess characters: You all have legendary dresses that look beautiful in their original animated excursions (except that Aladdin'S Jasmine, who rocks a combination of pants and crop top). These clothes are all spectacular in the animation. But how do they fit together with live action?
So far seven princesses from the Official Disney Princess list Got live action remake films. The latest, Snow Whitegives his protagonist a deep … disappointing Cloakroom that prompted us to look back and see which remake team did not understand the task.
As with every good ranking, this has a number of rules.
- I only recorded Disney live action films released in theater-do they add the descendants and the brandy Cinderella!
- I only think about princesses from the official Disney Princess list. This means that Jasmine does the cut even though she is not the title character AladdinBut Mia Wasikowska as Alice in Tim Burton's recording Alice in Wonderland not. Take it with Disney!
- Some characters have more than a defined dress. I will evaluate your wardrobes as a whole. In this case, a passable additional outfit could compensate for a terrible main dress. Or not!
- No continuation dresses. Excuse me, Maleficent: Mistress of evil!
I am also not necessarily looking for loyalty to the animated version. Sometimes that's not a good thing (coughSnow WhiteCough). The outfits should just look good, even if they are not necessarily direct replicas.
To find the best of the worst, you will find all live action Disney princesses and your wardrobes here.
7. Snow White in Schneewittchen (2025)
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Designer: Sandy Powell; Princess: Rachel Zegler
I saw Halloween costumes that look better than this dress. I have the feeling that I can say exactly what kind of thick, foam -like material makes up the sleeves. I also take the cheap vinyl stuff in the collar, which is hung between a few stiff wires. The skirt is this plastic-looking tulle monstrosity, which is also a yellow shadow in the original animation.
Yes, the original Snow White dress does Have some questionable color selection, but the live action solution is not To turn the saturation on red, blue and yellow. The slot-relevant necklace of Snow White-a Gift of her father with four boring adjectives to inspire you to inspire you like something that I could not order for $ 20. It's just lazy! I don't know where Snow White'S Almost 300 million US dollars budget went, but it was certainly not the cloakroom.
Snow other clothes in this film are so briefly worn out and inconspicuous that you cannot save the travesty of the most important.
6. Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2017)
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Costume designer: Jacqueline Durran; Princess: Emma Watson
Belle core wardrobe is not terrible. The blue and white dress that she wears in the village actually looks like a beautiful updated version of her animated going-to-town outfit. And their red winter cloak has a nice embroidery. But when it comes to her big show stop dress, she wears during the romantic ballroom scene – shot.
In contrast to your other clothes, it looks like this for the beginning significantly modern. And not even in a funny, anachronistic way! I don't surround myself whether she was wearing a corset or not, But his animal and silhouette looks more like the prom dress from the late 2010s as a French ball gown from the 18th century.
Fortunately, your final dress is one a little Better, at least in terms of shape, but the pattern looks like a tea towel that I would find in the kitchen of a grandmother.
5. Jasmine in Aladdin (2019)
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Costume designer: Michael Wilkinson; Princess: Naomi Scott
I am a bit torn about Jasmine's outfits that are so bright and exaggerated that they almost feel like a parody of the original film. But on the other hand, the entire film plays into this aesthetics so that it looks Do Taken together in the turquoise ensemble, which best imitates your animated counterpart, the best thing is the best because the others start to be in non -matching colors. You could be lively, but at least you don't look cheap!
However, they look more like they belong to the Broadway show – bright and glittering. You can even appreciate the audience in the cheap seats. But they look a little too intensely up close.
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Costume designer: Bina Daigeler; Princess: Liu Yifei
Mulan's wardrobe is understandably useful. After all, she spends most of the film in the military with an official uniform. It works! She has a different dress – the dress she wears when her family holds her to see the matchmaker. It differs from the animated version, but it still serves the purpose of showing that Mulan is not pleasant in a costume.
3 .. Ariel in the little mermaid (2023)
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Costume designer: Colleen Atwood; Princess: Halle Bailey
Ariel basically gets two dresses when it is in human form, and both are recalls to their animated film dresses, but still fit the visual aesthetics of the new film. One thing is the blue dress that she wears while exploring the city with Eric, which looks like in the film, as if it were from a very light, breathable material that is still super cute. It is now a pretty Seafoam green, and the beach design feels exactly in line with the Caribbean inspired environment!
The other is the pink ball dress that she wears with Eric and Grimsby for dinner, who uses a fork to comb her hair. Let us be real: The original bright pink dress has never really worked with Ariel's ketchup-red hair. But the live action supports the colors a little and makes it a softer pink of a mussel shell. It should definitely be inspired by this pink ball gown with the swollen sleeves, but it has its own appearance and creates sea pirate clothing.
2. Aurora in Maleficent (2014)
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Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick; Princess: Elle Fanning
Maleficent If from the perspective of Angelina Jolie's Darkles Fee, the clothes that her adoptive daughter Aurora wears definitely give a main character energy. They really match the dark medieval aesthetics of the film, with delicate embroidery and more muffled (but still beautiful) color pallets. The blue dress she wears when she stings her finger into the lock does not look like the animated version, but it has a beautiful, elegant silhouette and it works better in this context, since the character is not covered for a ball.
She ends the film in a particularly beautiful gold dress with complicated floral details, in which the whole “child of fairies grew up in a magical forest”.
1. Cinderella in Cinderella (2015)
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Costume designer: … also Sandy Powell; Princess: Lily James
I understandably have this ridiculous theory that every cent of the live action Disney-Movie costume budget, past, future and present, too CinderellaDon't leave anything for another Disney live action redux. The has To be the case because apparently the costume designer is behind the travesty of the 2025 Snow White Is Also responsible for CinderellaAnd I really can't think of another explanation of why the quality difference between the two is so big.
Each costume bag putter wears your servant girl outfit! – looks so ethereal. The pink dress that destroys her steps sisters is beautiful, and the wedding dress that she wears in the final with its beautiful flower accents is absolutely breathtaking.
But the Pièce de Résistance is her legendary ball gown. It is clearly inspired by the animated film, but Powell gave him his own identity. It looks as if watercolor painting is being brought to life and moves with such an elegance that it is difficult not to put Cinderella too Gawk as it slides over the ballroom. No wonder that everyone in the kingdom immediately falls in love with them, including the prince.
Perhaps Powell knew her Disney live action remake career in 2015 and she has not increased a finger for the 2025 Snow White? I understand it. Why create with perfection?
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