Costumes used in the filming of The Hunger Games film franchise.
The Hunger Games[]
Costume designer: Judianna Makovsky
A catalog of over 200 costumes, sold by Blacksparrow Auctions in autumn of 2013, is available to view here.
The Reaping[]
Costumes worn at the District 12 reaping for the 74th Hunger Games.[1]
Katniss Everdeen's reaping dress
Primrose Everdeen's reaping outfit
Effie Trinket's reaping dress
Effie and Katniss
Chariot costumes[]
Costumes worn by tributes during the Tribute Parade.[1]
Training outfits[]
Training uniform
Peeta Mellark and Katniss
Interview outfits[]
Costumes worn during interviews with Caesar Flickerman.
"Anatomy of an Arena Costume" graphic from Blacksparrow Auctions' catalog.
Arena wear[]
During the 74th Hunger Games, all tributes wore olive cargo pants, brown buckle boots, and a hooded nylon jacket with silver stripes that ran down the front, the arms, and back; the jacket also had an inner layer that had an orange reflective tape on the hem. Jackets and shirts (V-necks for the girls, crew necks for the boys) were color-coded according to district.[1]
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire[]
Costume designer: Trish Summerville
The Reaping[]
Costumes worn by past victors during the reaping for the 75th Hunger Games.[2]
Chariot costumes[]
Training[]
Training uniforms for Catching Fire were made by London-based brand Lucas Hugh.[3]
Enobaria
Peeta and Katniss
Katniss and Peeta waiting to be assessed by the Gamemakers
Interviews[]
Katniss in her arena uniform.
Arena wear[]
This year, every tribute wore a black wetsuit with black boots and short white sleeves, though longer, removable black sleeves covered the rest of the arm. The use of black, white, and grey were supposed to represent a mockingjay.[2]
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1[]
Costume designers: Kurt Swanson and Bart Mueller (better known jointly as Kurt and Bart)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2[]
Costume designers: Kurt and Bart
Battle of the Capitol[]
Katniss's combat ensemble
Katniss's Capitol disguise
Gale's Capitol disguise - coat
Rebel medic ensemble
Girl in the yellow coat
76th Hunger Games vote & Execution of President Snow[]
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes[]
Costume designer: Trish Summerville
Development[]
The Hunger Games[]
- Costume designer Judianna Makovsky and her team researched 1950s coal mining districts in order to design costumes for District 12. They were mostly dressed in gray or blue, "very cold because coal leaves a black dust everywhere. But we didn’t want it so overly stylized that it wasn’t a real place— it is a real place— it could be Appalachia, you know, a hundred or fifty years ago."[4]
- The Capitol aesthetic was inspired by the work of Elsa Schiaparelli, Alexander McQueen, and John Giuliano, as well as Elizabethan clothing and Italian fascist architecture.[4]
- The production required costumes for over 500 extras.[4]
- In an interview with MTV, costume illustrator and designer Christian Cordella said he worked on "pretty much everything from the fire dress to the Hunger Games suit."[5]
Catching Fire[]
- Katniss's wedding dress was designed by Tex Saverio.[3] In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Trish Summerville said that she and Saverio designed the dress together over Skype calls, inspired by another dress he'd designed with a metal bodice. The metal pieces rising up from the bodice symbolized flames. The layers of organza and chiffon ruffles facilitated her twirling for Caesar, and laser-cut feathers hinted at the gown's transformation into the mockingjay dress.[6]
- Alexander McQueen lent several pieces to the production. They were mostly worn by Effie; this included her butterfly dress from the reaping.[3]
- Effie's shoes for the butterfly look were by Iris van Herpen.[3]
- Makeup designer Ve Neill said in two different behind the scenes featurettes— The Hunger Games: Capitol Couture - Styles of Panem and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - The Look of Catching Fire— that the costumes Effie wore in the districts, such as to the reapings or on the Victory Tour, were the character's idea of toned down ensembles.
- Peeta's interview suit and several other pieces for him were by designer Juun J. Clothing by Nicholas K was also used for both Katniss and Peeta throughout their Victory Tour.[3]
- Johanna's interview dress was from Jan Taminiau's 2012 collection, "Nature Extends".
Mockingjay[]
- Christian Cordella, an illustrator who worked on the first film, returned to create illustrations for District 13's costumes.[5]
- Kurt and Bart researched movements like constructivism, futurism, and Maoism, as well as austerity in wartime, in order to get a feel for District 13 attire.[7] They also stated that "details like colors, closures, and the number of buttons were all taken into account because materials would have been at a premium."[8]
- Additionally, Kurt and Bart have offered extensive detail about the creation of the mockingjay suit.[9]
- Combat uniforms were a collaboration with designer Aitor Throup.[7]
- Capitol refugees' layered costumes were inspired by an editorial by Steven Meisel.[7]
- Their biggest inspiration for Effie was socialite and model Edith Bouvier Beale.[7]
- The different shades of gray in President Coin's wig were inspired by huskies.[10]
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes[]
- Trish Summerville, who had previously worked on Catching Fire, was brought on again as the costume designer for Songbirds and Snakes.[11]
- Summerville and director Francis Lawrence decided to base the early Capitol aesthetic on post-WWII Americana in the 1940s-50s.[11]
- Tigris's pink skirt suit was inspired by Balenciaga. In order to convey that Tigris made her own clothes and the family had fallen on hard times, Summerville said that "we saw the seams all outside and I frayed all the edges so it looks like they’re coming apart."[11]
- The Academy uniform was unisex. Summerville explained: "With the Capitol, when they have you in a group setting—bootcamp or the Peacekeepers—you work for them. They look at you as one of a million. It’s a bit communistic and regimented."[11]
- Lucy Gray Baird's rainbow dress was designed to match the book description and be functional in action sequences. Summerville went through a number of designs before she settled on one "made of tulle, netting, and fabric with plenty of stretch, that enabled [actress Rachel Zegler] and her stunt doubles to move freely."[11]
- On Lucy Gray's "granny boots": “What can I put her in, that’s going to allow her to crawl through these tunnels and scurry up walls and, and get around?” [Summerville] wondered. “I wanted to give her something that was really attractive, and had a little bit of sex appeal and glamour to it. She’s a bit of a cancan girl, but then also give her ankle support.”[11]
- The dress itself drew inspiration from vaudeville, "ending in a peasant top with a corset and a skirt with four layers of tulle." The corset was hand-painted by the film's patina department; according to Summerville, "the flowers on the corset are inspirations from Katniss flowers and Primrose flowers,” an homage to Katniss and Primrose Everdeen.[11]
Coriolanus Snow's reaping outfit, illustrated by Gloria Kim.
Illustration of Lucy Gray's rainbow dress.
Sejanus Plinth in the Academy uniform.
Tigris Snow in her pink skirt suit.
Lucky Flickerman costume illustration by Oksana Nedavniaya.
Dr. Gaul in her red and white lab coat.
Mizzen's outfit.
Makeup[]
- Lead makeup designer Sherri Berman Laurence made "character-specific inspiration boards", based off the overall 1940s-50s vision for the film. For District 12, "Francis wanted it to look like old black-and-white photos of the Appalachian region in the 1930s/40s. The colors were muted, and the people were covered in coal, grease, soot, and sweat."[12]
- On Lucy Gray's makeup: "We wanted to do something flushed and beautiful to go with the iconic rainbow dress from the book. Her performance looks were colorful and included a gold upper lined and bleeding red messy cupid's bow, gold shadows, bright pink lips, and shadows, with a nod to an overall period look."[12]
- Rachel Zegler and Sherri Laurence justified every makeup choice for Lucy Gray with backstories about how the character would be able to create that look on her own in District 12. Suggested materials included crushed flower petals, fruit juice, and bugs.[13]
- Francis Lawrence referenced Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka for the "almost mad scientist look" given to Dr. Volumnia Gaul. The character's heterochromia was a suggestion from actress Viola Davis herself, made possible with contacts by Jessica Nelson at Veiled Optics. Tamar Aviv was responsible for the old-age makeup done on Davis for the role, and Sergio Lopez-Rivera was her personal makeup artist.[12]
- Lucky Flickerman's look evolves throughout the film: "We started with bushier eyebrows, pale uncorrected skin, and a plain mustache. Each script day, we added more pancake makeup and bronzer, stained his lips. and began plucking his eyebrows into a pointed shape. By the end, he was an extreme version of his new style."[12]
- Lawrence wanted Tigris to be "fresh-faced... with an edgier fashion-forward style." According to Sherri Laurence, "We plucked her brows in severe upward points and bleached them white. Her Hunger Games look was very monochromatic with shades of pink starting at her cheeks and circling her eyes and little to no mascara to complement the bleached eyebrows."[12]
- On makeup for the tributes: "... we had to create and recreate different levels of dirt, grime, sweat, illnesses, and blood on our tributes for months. We also painted other characters who were ill, rabid, dead, injured, beaten, and hung. Bleaching and shaping of eyebrows, colored contacts, shading, contouring, highlighting faces and bodies, and facial hair were part of the different transformations too."[12]
Awards[]
| Year | Film | Honoree | Award | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | Judianna Makovsky | Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Fantasy Film | Nominated |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Trish Summerville | CDG Award for Excellence in Fantasy Film | Winner |
| Saturn Award for Best Costume Design | Winner | |||
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Kurt & Bart | CDG Award for Excellence in Fantasy Film | Nominated |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Nominated | ||
| 2023 | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Trish Summerville | Nominated | |
| Oksana Nedavniaya | CDG Award for Excellence in Costume Illustration | Nominated | ||
| Trish Summerville | CinEuphoria Award for Best Costume Design - International Competition | Nominated |
Trivia[]
- As of September 2023, numerous set pieces, props, and costumes are on display at The Hunger Games: The Exhibition in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Cinna's onscreen sketchbook pages in Mockingjay were actual design sketches by Kurt and Bart. Several of these were made into art props by production designer Phil Messina.[9]
- Prim and Mrs. Everdeen were the only characters seen wearing District 13-issued dresses.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Hunger Games (film)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/11/hunger-games-fashion-trish-summerville
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20150130152757/http://www.vogue.com/873551/dressing-the-hunger-games-costume-designer-judianna-makovsky
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20141125074938/http://www.mtv.com/news/1718212/hunger-games-mockingjay-costumes/
- ↑ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/hunger-games-catching-fire-katniss-wedding-dress-designer-revealed-426771/
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 https://fashionweekdaily.com/costume-designers-the-hunger-games/
- ↑ https://www.panempropaganda.com/movie-countdown/2015/2/18/mockingjay-part-1-costume-designers-on-the-mockingjay-suit-p.html
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 https://www.panempropaganda.com/movie-countdown/2015/3/4/look-inside-cinnas-sketchbook-with-mockingjay-costume-design.html
- ↑ The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 https://www.vogue.com/article/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-costumes-the-hunger-games
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 https://www.panempropaganda.com/movie-countdown/2023/10/1/the-ballad-of-songbirds-snakes-makeup-designer-sherri-berman.html
- ↑ https://twitter.com/rachelzegler/status/1649471978070241280