the QUEEN of COLOR
The Queen’s Gambit’s masterful wardrobe designer, Gabriele Binder, hid many juicy color clues signaling more than the next chess move throughout the NETFLIX series. Here you see how color plays a leading role as Beth emerges from a young woman into a Chess Master.
The early colors connote familiarity and optimism, a quiet introspective power that she possesses.
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She entered the match with Grandmaster-Borgov in a conservative mint green dress which elicited a sense of hope and innocence and yet it was antithetical to the drinking binge the night before.
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There is commitment and clarity to her look, the colors exude a soft warmth and fragility, revealing bits of her past.
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A sharp angled pattern is a power move stating, “I am ready and focused.” It is a confident look that says she means business. The color palette is reminiscent of uniforms, its deep purple, reds, and blues are commanding.
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The power of a check pattern is reflective of her life lived on the board. The geometry of the pattern is clean and crisp, perfect for her tournament in Moscow. A soothing, warm neutral is in stark contrast to the black and white. The clarity is there, there is no middle, you win or lose.
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In this final outfit, there is no doubt she is the master, donned in white, in Gabriel Binder words, “she is now the queen on the chessboard and the chessboard itself is the world.”
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