Elle Fanning wears Effie-inspired look at Hunger Games premiere

Elle Fanning wore a pink Robert Wun couture dress topped with a ballerina headpiece at the London premiere of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping on October 28, adopting a look inspired by her character, Effie Trinket. The ensemble featured a corset-style bodice, a full tulle skirt and a sculpted headpiece with a ballerina figurine posed before a mirror. Fanning, who plays a younger version of Effie, attended the film’s first London screening in the outfit, which drew on the character’s extravagant fashion in the franchise. McKenna Grace, who plays Maysilee Donner, wore an Almée Couture gown with embroidered and three-dimensional details evoking a landscape. The film’s fashion reflects the story’s setting in an earlier era of Panem, the fictional world of the series. Grace said the production’s fashion mood boards drew on Stevie Nicks and styles of the 1960s and 1970s. She also described the oversized capes worn by tributes in arena scenes as difficult to move in. Joseph Zada, who plays a young Haymitch Abernathy, likewise said the capes made running difficult. Glenn Close walked the red carpet with a cane after undergoing hip replacement surgery. In an October 20...