After last week’s release of the Hunger Games Tribute Parade costume photos, we thought we’d try to get a jump on the costume directors (and maybe give them a gentle nudge in the right direction) and show some ideas for Katniss’s interview gown that would not make her look like an extra from Blade Runner: Replicants on Ice (thanks, Posh, for the joke). Besides, we just got a Polyvore account and it’s super fun to pretend we’re the Fug Girls, so you’re the lucky recipients of our new obsession! Hooray!
If you’re looking to score a Girl on Fire look for your next red carpet event (or HG-themed cocktail party), here are some ideas. And don’t worry if you don’t have $10,000 to drop on a dress — I’ve got a few alternatives. And if you DO have $10,000 to drop on a dress, you should know FYA is currently seeking sponsors for its FYA Yacht and Champagne Fund. Ahem.
I’ve come up with two different looks — one that’s a fairly traditional interpretation of the text (dresses with actual flames were either super ugly or slutted it up too much), and one I like to call Katniss’s afterparty look. Let me talk about that one for a minute, okay? It’s my favorite, mostly because of the BADASS Alexander McQueen shoes, which are a MUST for the look. So if you don’t have a spare $800 lying around, I suggest you get a second job. And frankly, the two cheap options to the Cavalli dress are kind of fug, but what can you do when your budget’s been blown on shoes? Also, I have a thing against Betsey Johnson since I went in there to try on dresses for my sister-in-law’s wedding, and I asked if they had the dress I wanted in a 12 because the 10 didn’t fit my ginourmous baby-nursing boobs, and the size AT LEAST 18 salesgirl sneered at me, “We don’t carry sizes that large? OK?” and so I vowed never to buy a Betsey Johnson dress, even though there are some I dearly covet (and I’m not making fun of her size! I’m just saying she was definitely bigger than the size she was so rude about).
OK, enough chatter. The looks:
{center} Elie Saab chiffon dress, $10,883
{right} BCBG Max Azria elbow sleeve dress, $338
{left} Two-toned sequined dress
CO-OP Barneys New York peep toe high heels, $169
Barry M Dazzle Dust, 96 – Gold: Amazon.co.uk: Beauty, £4.50
Nailside: Flame Job How-To
{left} Roberto Cavalli embroidered dress, €2.127
{center} Betsey Johnson sequin dress, $179
{right} Lipsy evening party dress, $116
Alexander McQueen platform shoes, $765
Pamela Love Sterling silver obsidian arrowhead ring
Yay? Nay? Not with a 50-foot flaming arrow and can full of gasoline? Is Cinna weeping all his gold eyeliner off?
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http://www.fur-style.com/en/fashion/by-designer/ready-to-wear/?season=31&designer=352&model=4419&cHash=6902f934bc
Girl on fur?
WHAT IS THAT? It looks like the sexy nightie thing Anya is wearing in “Once More With Feeling”. Maybe it’s Katniss’s after-afterparty wear?
Also: Girl on fur. Ha. Nice one.
“Trimmed in marabou”
Definition of MARABOU
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a : a soft feathery fluffy material prepared from turkey feathers or the coverts of marabous and used especially for trimming women’s hats or clothes
I was hoping it would be fur because then Katniss could kill and skin it herself. Or maybe Gale would help. Peeta would make scones to celebrate.
She can still kill and pluck some wild turkeys!
OMG she actually DOES that! This is TOTALLY her dress.
I’m sorry, but have you seen the actual Katniss interview dress? I’m so dissapointed! (Love your Girl on Fire ideas tho!)
http://crushable.com/style/hunger-games-capitol-hairstyles-old-hollywood-758/
Does it meet this description? I think NOT.
“Because my dress, oh, my dress is entirely covered in reflective precious gems, red and yellow and white with bits of blue that accent the tips of the flame design. The slightest movement gives the impression I am engulfed in tongues of fire. I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
Collins, Suzanne (2009-09-01). The Hunger Games (pp. 120-121). Scholastic Paperbacks. Kindle Edition.
Unless this is the dress that is the final interview, and in that case … no I’m still dissapointed.
It HAS to be. She looks angry and depressed, not giddy and scared shitless. That’s what I’m telling myself, anyway, because BLERGH.
I know. It looks like something Sandra Bullock rejected for the Oscars.
I was horribly uncomfortable with all the description of the clothes in the book. I can’t see myself caring about fashion if I’ve been sentenced to a death match. Just sayin
I’d be so scared I’d probably pee all over myself and the fancy clothes if I was selected!
I didn’t really think about it when I was reading because HELLO CINNA ILU, but when I went back and looked up the description of the dress yesterday, I was surprised at the fashion porn-ness of the books.
And the fashion porn continues all the way into the 3rd book! I found it distracting. Without all the food and clothes the books would have been half as long. Not they I don’t revere them or anything but still.
I love our new Polyvore account!!! Thank you, Meghan.
And those gold glitter heels. COME TO MAMA.
I have finally gotten my boyfriend to read the books, and the biggest problem he has with it is all the clothes talk. He’s all “is this a book for GIRLS?? Why did you trick me with killing!?”
I’m having to be very persistent to get him into book 3. *sigh*
Wait, wait… wait! You have all the possibilities and the huge budget of a hollywood movie like this and the best “flamey-est” dress you can come up with is a PLAIN RED DRESS ?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! I’m justb expecting that it will burst in to flames on stage, that has to be it, I can’t believe they would miss such an opportunity…
Besides, would it KILL them to make her a LITTLE BIT uglier at the beginning? You can fix her up in the capitol, but that has no effect if she looks pretty before that too.