Re-Live Padmé Amidala’s Attack of the Clones Fashion Parade With These Detailed Paper Dolls

Princess Leia’s duplicate buns made Star Wars‘ archetypal large manner statement, but it wasn’t until the prequels that a existent benignant icon emerged successful the postulation far, acold away. We’re talking, of course, astir Padmé Amidala. While her elaborate Queen of Naboo garb made an content successful The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones is wherever the Natalie Portman quality truly got to flex her favourite flowing fabrics and sleek conflict attire.

Lucasfilm, ne'er 1 to shy distant from selling immoderate country of Star Wars, intelligibly deed upon a bully thought by releasing a publication of insubstantial dolls celebrating costume decorator Trisha Biggar’s gorgeous creations. However, 23 twelvemonth aft the movie’s release, pristine copies of Random House’s Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: Padmé Amimdale Paper Doll Book, featuring creation by Joyce Patti, are hard to find.

But fret not: arsenic portion of an upcoming Star Wars merchantability timed to May the Fourth, Heritage Auctions has connected connection not a transcript of the book, but the original Joyce Patti acrylic-on-paper artworks, mounted to illustration boards and suitable for displaying to amusement disconnected each precise detail.

The acceptable of 8 artworks (each measuring astir 13.25″ x 20″) showcases Padmé caller presumption arsenic the Senator representing Naboo, arsenic good arsenic her off-duty attire portion falling successful emotion with Anakin Skywalker: “her loyalist dress, her exile dress, her picnic dress, her meal dress, her Tatooine bluish dress, her wedding gown, and her Geonosis conflict attire,” Heritage Auction notes. Anakin besides gets his infinitesimal arsenic an added bonus, but his Jedi togs ain’t overmuch adjacent to Padmé’s undeniable galactic flair.

The good people is that the starting bid connected this acceptable of archetypal illustrations is the queenly sum of $3,000. Learn much however to bid here. You tin cheque retired the afloat Star Wars auction here.

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