Katniss on the Catwalk.

Jose here. You know you've made it when your movie not only is the number one movie in the planet, but you also start influencing fashion. If you disagree, I have no trouble doing Meryl's "Cerulean monologue"...or quoting anything Effie Trinket says in The Hunger Games.

Effie's movie isn't only on its way to becoming one of the top grossing movies of all time, it's also becoming an influence for fashion designers. Calvin Klein's Francisco Costa has just designed a lovely dress inspired by Katniss Everdeen (the heroine played by Jennifer Lawrence in the movie).

The peach colored, silk-crepe dress perfectly embodies Katniss' simplicity with the rich fabrics one would imagine they wear at the Capitol but with its hefty price tag of $5,000, isn't the dress a bit of an oxymoron? It would be like having a bread brand named after Marie Antoinette.

Any way, what are some of your favorite movie-inspired, real life style trends?

Comments

[Janice]

That dress is - well, somebody doesn't get the point, obviously. Ridiculous. The comparison with Marie Antoinette is spot-on btw - she and her friends used to play at being milkmaids and country lads at Petite Trianon - and to this day, it seems the rich find it terribly amusing to play at being "poor ordinary folk" without suffering the discomforts of such.

Then again, it may be no different really than white culture (in America) stealing fashion elements from Native Americans, Africans, from the street, ghetto etc etc and making it "upscale" - without bothering themselves about the people they're stealing/borrowing from?