Belle's ball gown

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In the ballroom scene from Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast, during which the fictional character Belle dances with the Beast to the film's titular song, Belle wears an opulent golden off-the-shoulder ball gown with a voluminous tiered skirt that has sashes draped all around it. Although Beauty and the Beast is set in 18th-century France, the dress's streamlined and anachronistic design borrows inspiration from several different fashion eras, with some of its elements centuries removed from its historical setting. Although art director Brian McEntee had always envisioned the dress as gold, representing Belle's emotional growth into a happier and warmer character, Disney's marketing department wanted a pink dress to appeal to young girls; McEntee convinced the studio that gold would differentiate Belle from previous Disney princesses. The dress has been reimagined for several adaptations of the film, notably by Ann Hould-Ward for the Broadway musical in 1994, by Jacqueline...

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