The live-action Disney Princess clothes, ranked

As Disney retains rolling out live-action variations of its basic animated motion pictures, costume and manufacturing designers maintain dealing with the problem of constructing enticing animated pictures look equally good in the true world.

Think about the Disney Princess characters: All of them have iconic clothes that look attractive of their unique animated outings (besides Aladdin’s Jasmine, who rocks a pants-and-crop-top mixture). In animation, these robes are all spectacular. However how do they match up in dwell motion?

To this point, seven princesses from the official Disney Princess lineup have gotten live-action remake motion pictures. The most recent, Snow White, offers its protagonist a deeply… disappointing wardrobe, which prompted us to look again and see which remake group did and didn’t perceive the project.

Like any good rating, this one has a algorithm.

I’m additionally not essentially searching for constancy to the animated model. Generally that’s not factor (cough, Snow White, cough). The outfits ought to merely look good, even when they aren’t essentially direct replicas.

So as from worst to finest, listed here are all of the live-action Disney Princesses and their wardrobes, ranked.

7. Snow White in Snow White (2025)

Designer: Sandy Powell; Princess: Rachel Zegler

I’ve seen Halloween costumes that look higher than this costume. I really feel like I can inform precisely what kind of thick, foam-like materials makes up the sleeves. I’m additionally zeroing in on a budget vinyl stuff within the collar that’s suspended between some stiff wires. The skirt is that this plastic-looking tulle monstrosity that’s a shade of yellow not even within the unique animation.

Sure, the unique Snow White costume does have some questionable coloration decisions, however the live-action resolution is not to crank the saturation up on the purple, blue, and yellow. Snow White’s plot-relevant necklace — a present from her father with 4 bland adjectives to ✨ encourage ✨ her — appears to be like like one thing I might order off Etsy for $20. It’s simply lazy! I don’t know the place Snow White’s practically $300 million finances went, but it surely actually was not the wardrobe.

Snow’s different clothes on this film are so briefly worn and so unremarkable that they’ll’t save the travesty of the principle one.

6. Belle in Magnificence and the Beast (2017)

Costume designer: Jacqueline Durran; Princess: Emma Watson

Belle’s core wardrobe isn’t horrible. The blue-and-white costume she wears within the village truly appears to be like like a pleasant up to date model of her animated going-to-town outfit. And her purple winter cloak has some pretty embroidery. However in the case of her massive showstopping robe, the one she wears throughout the romantic ballroom scene — woof.

For starters, in contrast to her different clothes, it appears to be like so distinctly fashionable. And never even in a enjoyable, anachronistic means! I don’t give a hoot about whether or not or not she wore a corset, however its tiering and silhouette simply appears to be like extra like late-2010s promenade costume than 18th-century French ballgown.

Her finale costume is fortunately a bit higher, at the least by way of the form, however the sample appears to be like like a tea towel I’d discover in a grandma’s kitchen.

5. Jasmine in Aladdin (2019)

Costume designer: Michael Wilkinson; Princess: Naomi Scott

I’m a bit torn about Jasmine’s outfits, that are so gaudy and excessive, they virtually really feel like a parody of the unique film. However then once more, your entire film performs into that aesthetic, so her appears to be like do cohesively slot in. The turquoise ensemble that the majority straight imitates her animated counterpart is the very best, for the reason that others begin to encroach on discordant coloration clashing. They is perhaps splashy, however at the least they don’t look low-cost!

They do, nevertheless, look extra like they belong within the Broadway present — vivid and glittery, so even audiences within the low-cost seats can admire them. However up shut, they appear slightly too intense.

Costume designer: Bina Daigeler; Princess: Liu Yifei

For essentially the most half, Mulan’s wardrobe is understandably utilitarian. In spite of everything, she spends many of the film within the army, sporting an official uniform. It really works! She has one different costume — the robe she wears when her household hauls her off to see the matchmaker. It’s completely different from the animated model, but it surely nonetheless serves the aim of displaying that Mulan isn’t snug in a elaborate costume.

3. Ariel in The Little Mermaid (2023)

Costume designer: Colleen Atwood; Princess: Halle Bailey

Ariel mainly will get two clothes when she’s in human kind, and each of them are callbacks to her animated film robes, whereas nonetheless becoming in with the brand new film’s visible aesthetic. One is the blue costume she wears whereas exploring the city with Eric, which within the film appears to be like prefer it’s manufactured from a really gentle, breathable materials that’s nonetheless tremendous cute. It’s now a reasonably seafoam inexperienced, and the beachy design feels proper consistent with the Caribbean-inspired setting!

The opposite is the pink ballgown she wears to dinner with Eric and Grimsby, the one the place she makes use of a fork to comb her hair. Let’s be actual: The unique vivid pink costume by no means actually labored with Ariel’s ketchup-red hair. However the dwell motion mutes the colours a bit, making it the softer pink of a conch shell. It’s undoubtedly imagined to be impressed by that pink ballgown with the puffy sleeves, but it surely has its personal distinct look, evoking seafaring pirate-y apparel.

2. Aurora in Maleficent (2014)

Costume designer: Ellen Mirojnick; Princess: Elle Fanning

Maleficent is informed from the perspective of Angelina Jolie’s eponymous darkish fairy, however the robes her adopted daughter Aurora wears undoubtedly give main-character vitality. They actually match the film’s darkish medieval-fantasy aesthetic, with delicate embroidery and extra muted (however nonetheless attractive) coloration palettes. The blue robe she’s sporting when she pricks her finger within the fortress doesn’t appear to be the animated model, but it surely has a beautiful, elegant silhouette, and it really works higher on this context, for the reason that character isn’t dressed up for a ball.

She ends the film in a very attractive gold robe with some intricate floral detailing, which actually hammers house the entire “youngster raised by fairies in a magical forest” vibe!

1. Cinderella in Cinderella (2015)

Costume designer: …additionally Sandy Powell; Princess: Lily James

I’ve this understandably ridiculous idea that each cent of the live-action-Disney-movie costume finances, previous, future, and current, went to Cinderella, leaving nothing for another Disney live-action redux. This has to be the case, as a result of apparently the costume designer behind the travesty that’s the 2025 Snow White is additionally accountable for Cinderella, and I genuinely can not consider one other clarification as to why the distinction in high quality between the 2 is so huge.

Each costume Cinderella wears — even her servant-girl outfit! — appears to be like so ethereal. The pink costume her stepsisters destroy is gorgeous, and the marriage costume she wears within the finale, with its attractive flower accents, is totally beautiful.

However the pièce de résistance is her iconic ballgown. It’s clearly impressed by the animated film, however Powell gave it an id of its personal. It appears to be like like a watercolor portray come to life, and strikes with such magnificence that it’s onerous to not gawk at Cinderella as she glides throughout the ballroom. No surprise everybody within the kingdom instantly falls in love together with her, the prince included.

Maybe Powell knew her Disney live-action remake profession peaked in 2015, and she or he didn’t elevate a finger for the 2025 Snow White? I get it. Why mess with perfection?