Spyke
lemmy.world

Exceedingly cool.

She's the upgraded model of protocol droid and I dug it!

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prolereply
sh.itjust.works

I imagine plate armor is uncomfortable as fuck... Capes are dope though, but I can imagine them getting caught in various things causing fatal accidents (escalators, revolving doors, moving trains, etc.)

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Shardreply
lemmy.world

Its not difficult to engineer a bit of safety into a cape. The clasps holding the cape around your neck/on your body can be designed to have a low breakaway strength to prevent strangulation(150N is a typical force). This is a feature designed into most safety helmets. Its secure enough to never fall off unintentionally, but weak enough that it removes the risk of strangulation.

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This is literally what capes were like. The world was even more dangerous back then and the human brain hasn't received any upgrades since capes went out of fashion :)

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Zendaya switched to a dress after the red carpet walk, so you are probably right about the comfortability

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lemmy.world

I feel like that photo really doesn’t capture the oddity of that get-up, though it does feel “Dune-ish”:

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Damn that looks pretty cool ngl wish I had an excuse to wear plate armor in public

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Artyomreply
lemm.ee

Yes, both Zendaya's dress and C3PO were designed to look like Maria, the robot in Metropolis.

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Im annoyed at using a screenshot of a tiktok at all rather than just looking up a picture of her in the suit

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swg-empire.de

Leave her alone. She just wanted to feel closer to her idol Swen Vincke.

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As far as idols go, the head of what seems to be the only ethical major developer/publisher of video games left isn't the WORST choice 🤷

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Yeah, both Zendaya's costume and C3PO (and many other robots in sci-fi) have the Metropolis aesthetic.

Just that Star Wars being as popular as it is means C3PO is iconic on his own, and no one thinks a lot about why the stylistic choices were made when they designed the C3PO costume in the 70s.

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It was exactly a metropolis inspired look. She got it out of a museum basically. It was on the runway in the 90s(?) as an homage to the robot woman from Metropolis.

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sopuli.xyz

Urgh, I hate when brands use the phrase "Break the internet!" ... It just sounds so braindead to me.

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Macreply
mander.xyz

It's entirely brain dead: they're literally copying it from whoever used it years ago.

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I think I first saw it with Kim Kardashian. And did it "break" anything? Maybe some coomer's wrist, but nothing else lol

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lemmy.world

How is this a meme? It’s a classic art piece designed by Theirry Muglier and was originally seen in George Michael’s Too Funky music video. And yes it’s inspired by robots like C3PO and Maria/Maschinenmensch from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

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steakmeoutreply
lemmy.world

I think it looks amazing. How sad for people that they decide to mock art and artistry due to a lack of imagination. She’s a principal cast member in a literal space opera where humans fight over a planet on while wearing all manner of interesting outfits. What she’s wearing is no more ridiculous than anything else in the movie is definitely the best looking outfit the cast wore on the red carpet in Mexico.

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Good for you, I mean that. But as much as you admire and enjoy this outfit, I don't.

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lemmy.ca

I feel like everyone is missing the clear Barbarella reference with this outfit, which is fitting for a scifi premier.

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voltaareply
lemmy.ca

The chest and stomach windows

Are too similar

for me to not see it

The outfit alone was enough for my wife and I to both instantly go "oh that's some Barbarella looking shit". The context of it being at a scifi premiere cemented in my mind that it was an aware homage but I could be wrong.

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Ok wow, I had no idea zendaya's outfit had windows. I see them now, but I totally thought it was just gold-looking armor.

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lemm.ee

These Disney chicks have become so NSFW nowadays. Miley Cyrus, Bella Thorne, Zendaya, Demi Lovato, etc.

How ironical!

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Phoenixzreply
lemmy.ca

There was a south park episode about exactly this

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