Well hi there,
Its been awhile but, I is back.
Okay a lot have happened in past few week but we all know what the big event was,worldwide, THE HUNGER GAMES!
Like most, I read the books, and counted the days to the screening! It arrived and it was worth the wait. Hope you all enjoyed it too.
Now for this post, the topic is on the Fashion of the Hunger Games, more so that of Katniss. (She was amazing!) And to guild us through it is Makovsky:
Makovsky on creating District 12 attire:
She started her research by looking at photographs of working-class people from the turn-of-the-19th century to the 1960s in Appalachia and other places in America, particularly images by Lewis Hine and Mike Disfarmer. “We took the basics from that, the simple shapes of the clothes and the colors.”
A pair of striped pants Katniss wears to hunt were made from an 1870s Levi Strauss pattern. Her caramel-colored leather jacket was modeled after 1940s styles plucked from costume houses for inspiration. It’s not oversized, as specified in the book, where it is described as a hand-me-down from her father.
And on Katniss’s reaping day dress:
“We made dozens of different versions, some sheer, some not. Originally we thought it would be cotton, but rayon looked better. We found the fabric at the Western Costume fabric shop. And we bleached and dyed it to get just the right blue, and put some smocking at the top. It’s supposed to be her mother’s dress.”
Here how the Capitol style was perfected:
For inspiration for the Capitol costumes, Makovsky looked at Italian Fascist architecture and the work of 1930s and ’40s fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli for her “sense of elegance and amusement.”
Filmgoers get their first taste of the Capitol when Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), the ambassador to the Hunger Games, arrives for the Reaping dressed in a bum-hugging fuchsia dress and a pink wig with a vintage 1930s flower hat stuck on. Her gold booties are from Alexander McQueen, whose work comes to mind when looking at the Capitol dwellers.
Effie is one part Marie Antoinette and one part Isabella Blow, and she can barely walk in her shoes — which was intentional. “She is a fashion victim,” Makovsky says.
The stylist Cinna, on the other hand, is more understated. “I wanted a simple elegance for him. I found the black Lurex Prada sweater he wears, and we built on that.”
And on the ‘girl on fire’ dress:
For the “girl on fire” dress Katniss wears when she’s interviewed on TV on the eve of the games, Makovsky was inspired by Orry-Kelly’s transformative gowns in the 1962 film “Gypsy,” starring Natalie Wood as an awkward tomboy who transforms into legendary burlesque stage performer Gypsy Rose Lee.
“I wanted the dress to be red, but not so covered in stones that it would look like something out of ’Dancing With the Stars,’” Makovsky says. The silk taffeta and organza dress has vertical pleats, so that it moves when Katniss twirls, and flame-like crystal embroidery. The dress is not really “engulfed” in flames, as the book describes, but the skirt does ignite (with the help of CG).
(Source: chicagotribune.com)
