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"The Hunger Games Style Special\\nAnyone who&amp;#39;s read The Hunger Games knows style plays just as pivotal a role as the girl on fire herself. Click through our slideshow as SELF Fashion Director Evyan Metzner weighs in on the characters&amp;#39; looks and how they evolve.\\nAs the film opens in District 12, Katniss's home, she and bestie Gale are styled very organically. The fabrics are leathers, cotton, wool. They're camouflaged to their surroundings (they are hunters after all), but they are very \\\"of the earth.\\\"\\nOur first glimpse at the Capitol (or \\\"Emerald City,\\\" as I've coined it)! District 12 and its inhabitants are dressed so grey, that its almost as if the movie has gone black and white. Then Effie Trinket is in *techinicolor*! Every thing about her is exaggerated\u2014her skintone, the hair, the cut of her clothes, the color of her clothes, her accessories. . . she could barely walk!\\nDespite the Capitol being over-the-top (to say the least) and creating hyperdramatic looks, Cinna's personal style is rather understated. He's more about feeling fierce from within. He does, though, play just a bit to the environment with a hint of gold eyeliner. It's actually very typical of high-end stylists to be more focused on their client than their own costuming.\\nAnd now we have the moment where Katniss becomes the \\\"Girl on Fire.\\\" Neither Katniss nor Peeta are dressed as if from their coal-mining district. Instead, their ceremonial dress set a dramatic tone, or a warning to the other competitors: they were fearless and, hands held together, a team.\\nThis is what I call the \\\"Olympic Soviet uniform.\\\" The Capitol did everything to dehumanize each tribute down to their training wear. Wearing the exact same uniform, every tribute was now reduced to being labeled simply with a number.\\nIt's a battle of facial hair: The slightly disheveled President Snow is so controlling in his demeanor, he has no need to show it in his appearance. He understands the Hunger Games are just a game. Seneca Crane's sublimely (creepy?) manicured beard and stache is so calculated ? to him, the intricacy of the games are everything. He's in the game.\\nTwo words: Karl Lagerfeld. The hair, his height, the maestro look\u2014Caesar Flickerman knows how to play to and sway a crowd. For Katniss, though, this is a point where she forgets to be the Girl on Fire and falls victim to the glamour of the Capitol, twirling in her gown. And no matter how fun twirling is, it isn't exactly threatening.\\nAnd here she is in the arena\u2014in true survival mode. Her look is purely functional\u2014its basically cargo pants and a tee. But the little Mockingjay pin on her heart personalizes and humanizes her, setting her apart from the other tributes."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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