Padmé wears this gown when she addresses the Senate in Coruscant. It was cut from the movie though, but you can see it on the DVD.
Design:
"The advent of digital cameras, used in a major film for the first time in Episode II, gave Trisha and her team some unanticipated problems with fabrics. They had carried out extensive material testing on the blue-green color spectrum, which we had been advised might be problematic, and on black white fabrics to ascertain how much texture details would be seen. So, thinking they'd covered all the danger areas, Trisha selected for Amidala's Senate Costume an inky blue velvet for the overdress, using a technique known as discharge printing (where areas of original color are removed, forming a pattern, and another color painted in its place to highlight the design) to enhance the front panels with Naboo motifs. For the underdress, Trisha used vintage gold moiré fabric decorated with Victorian iridescent blue beads. The undersleeve and back-drape were fashioned from an antique-pleated satinized silk. But when camera-testing Natalie in the finished dress, Trisha and her crew discovered that in close-up shots the fabric, also know as watered silk, strobed in the collar and chest area, something that would not have happened on film. The entire area had to be concealed, using thousands of tiny vintage beads."
-Dressing a Galaxy
Headdress:
"Episode II Senate headdress with vintage multilayered gold and amethyst drop forehead piece."
-Dressing a Galaxy
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