Hunter Schafer Hunger Games Style Is Red Carpet Method Dressing

The outfit odds have undoubtedly been in her favour.

It’s not each day that we see an rising Hollywood star grasp the artwork of method dressing, however Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer is doing simply that along with her Starvation Video games press tour fashion.

To advertise the newest installment of The Starvation Video games collection, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, each considered one of Schafer’s trend selections has been a showstopper — and appears prefer it was plucked straight from Panem’s Capitol (IYKYK).

With the assistance of stylist Dara Allen, who can be the style director of Interview journal, Schafer has been channelling her Songbirds & Snakes character Tigris Snow by way of a collection of suave and creative seems. Within the movie, Schafer’s character is the older cousin of Coriolanus Snow (a.ok.a. the long run President of Panem and the collection’ principal antagonist) in addition to a trend stylist apprentice whose love for garments is a key aspect of her character.

With fashion taking part in such an essential function in Tigris’ storyline, it’s becoming that Schafer and Allen have been channelling creativity by way of her press tour outfits, which kicked off with a bang on the movie’s Berlin premiere earlier this month.

To stroll her first Ballad of Songbirds purple carpet, Schafer wowed in a Schiaparelli couture costume that regarded prefer it was painted instantly onto her physique. With quite a lot of mosaic-style, hand-painted items, the midi-dress stopped just under her knees in a tattered hemline and featured exaggeratedly lengthy sleeves that lined Schafer’s palms completely.

The unconventional and nearly animalistic parts of this costume bring to mind Tigris’ altering look within the authentic Starvation Video games movies.

When the viewers meets a a lot older Tigris in Mockingjay Half 2 (2015), she has dramatically altered her look with tattoos and surgical enhancements to resemble an precise Tiger. Although the precise cause for this dramatic change in look isn’t explicitly said within the books, there was speculation that Tigris used these suave strategies to rework herself in retaliation in opposition to her cousin’s more and more tyrannical methods.

For her subsequent Ballad of Songbirds purple carpet on the movie’s London world premiere, Schafer wore a two-piece Prada ensemble that made it look as if she’d been dipped in liquid gold. The outfit’s bra prime, bolero jacket and maxi-skirt have been embellished with lengthy, dangling black ribbons that contrasted the brilliant gold hue.

The over-the-top opulence of this outfit can as soon as once more be linked again to Tigris and the general eccentric fashion that many Starvation Video games characters are recognized for.

In The Starvation Video games, the wealthy stay in a futuristic, utopian metropolis referred to as the Capitol that’s remoted from the remainder of the nation and thus by no means has to take care of any of the problems (equivalent to poverty, poor working circumstances and the yearly risk of the Starvation Video games themselves) that plague Panem’s twelve districts. As such, it’s commonplace for Capitol residents, considered one of which Tigris as soon as was, to show their wealth with audacious outfits and indulgent equipment, like Schafer’s gold outfit.

And this wasn’t Schafer’s solely look that included a direct nod to Panem’s Capitol. In truth, her newest purple carpet outfit was rapidly acknowledged by many authentic Starvation Video games followers as an ode to a different beloved character.

For the movie’s New York premiere on November 15, Schafer wore a blossoming floral Marni costume from the designer’s Spring 2024 assortment. The structured minidress was adorned with 3D flowers that jutted out in all instructions, harking back to the long-lasting 2011 Alexander McQueen butterfly costume (which occurs to be essential to subsequent 12 months’s Met Gala theme) that Capitol citizen Effie Trinket wore in an authentic Starvation Video games movie.

Whereas this foray into the artwork of purple carpet methodology dressing is a primary for Schafer, the actress isn’t any stranger to serving up head-turning purple carpet outfits.

Schafer, who’s finest recognized for enjoying Jules in Euphoria, made headlines final Oscar season when she hit the Vainness Honest after-party in a daring prime from Ann Demeulemeester comprised of a single white feather throughout her breasts. Paired with an additional low-rise white silk skirt, the star’s look was all anybody wished to speak about finally 12 months’s occasion.

After opening with a $98 million global release on the field workplace throughout its first weekend, The Ballad of Songbirds is off to a powerful begin. Because the solid embarks on their previous few press stops, we’ll be holding a watch out for extra stellar purple carpet moments from Schafer and her costars, equivalent to Rachel Zegler, who has additionally been channelling iconic Starvation Video games characters along with her premiere seems.

Try the gallery under for extra of Schafer’s thrilling Ballad of Songbirds’ press tour outfits.