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Katniss Wedding Dress
SheKnows.com has released an exclusive, short behind the scenes video today from the Catching Fire DVD special features. The clip focuses on Katniss' wedding dress and features commentary from producer Nina Jacobson and costume designer Trish Summerville and some great shots of Jennifer Lawrence and Stanley Tucci getting ready to film the interview scene.
SheKnows has pulled the clip from their site so watch it while you can! We may get the same instructions soon!!
Frocktalk recently spoke with Phillip Boutte, a costume illustrator who worked with costume designer Trish Summerville on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Boutte took Summerville's costume designs and used a hybrid of different mediums (hand drawing, photoshop, Corel painter and ZBrush) to make a rendering of the costume designs:
I can take a fitting photo of something and make it look the way it’s supposed to look. Through photo manipulation and painting, I’ll do my sketch in the computer – I’ll directly sketch into the computer instead of using a pencil – and then I’ll start to fill in actors’ faces, block in big shapes, block in a basic silhouette and start to draw, based on the specifications of what the designer has given me. From that point, you can make things look a lot more real.
Boutte didn't give us any new information about Catching Fire, but he did provide a look at some of the costumes. And they are all labeled by scene so we can see how they correspond to the Catching Fire movie stills and screencaps from the trailer. You can read the full article HERE.
Is this THE dress? When Katniss' Official Capitol Portrait was revealed earlier this week we all wondered whether this was the actual wedding dress. Catching Fire Costume Designer Trish Summerville set the record straight with The Hollywood Reporter yesterday:
"Katniss’ white gown is by a designer named Tex Saverio in Jakarta. He is amazing! I found his designs quite some time ago and saved his information for a perfectly fitting project, then came Catching Fire – perfect!" she said.
“We did several Skype calls with sketches to work together in designing the wedding dress. I had seen a dress he designed with a similar metal bodice, and I wanted to incorporate it into our wedding-dress design," Summerville adds.
Tex Severio's Dresses from The White Collection
She also pointed out the bodice, a Swarovski-crystal-clad “organza corset under a metal cage." The metal pieces rising up are meant to signify fire and flames, while layers of laser-cut feathers at the waist and shoulder tie in the film's "Mockingjay" concept.
The skirt also has numerous layers of organza and chiffon ruffles giving it grandness but still making it seem airy and fluid for movement. As Summerville explains, "This is very important for the twirling/ spinning Katniss does onstage, per Caesar Flickerman's request."
Summerville confirms that Effie Trinket's red ruffled poster dress and matching shoes are indeed from the house of Alexander McQueen. But she also reveals that Peeta’s suit is by a Korean designer that she is "obsessed with" called Juunj. "He is unbelievably talented," she writes. "And Peeta’s boots are by Rick Owens. “
Summerville also confirmed that she is using some pieces from Clayton and Flavie Webster's L.A.-based couture line, exclusive to their Cerre boutique in West Hollywood. The design duo also worked with Summerville on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, supplying Lisbeth Salander actress Rooney Mara’s leatherwear and backpack.
The Hollywood Reporter says avant-garde Dutch designer Iris van Herpen may be the woman behind one of the most anticipated costumes in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' - Katniss' transforming wedding gown.
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Though costume designer Trish Summerville is head costume designer, THR reports that an inside source on the movie says van Herpen is indeed working on ONE costume for the film, but wouldn't confirm which one. Van Herpen, who counts Lady Gaga and Bjork among her fans, uses innovative technology combined with Haute Couture handiwork to create some of the most mind-blowing designs you'll ever see. Time Magazine named van Herpen's 3D printed dress one of it's 50 best inventions of 2011.
Yep, she's got this.
If van Herpen IS the woman behind the dress, she should have no trouble creating the wedding gown/flaming mockingjay of our dreams. Read more at The Hollywood Reporter.
RUMOR UPDATE: Fashionista is reporting that Iris van Herpen is NOT designing a costume for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Fashionista.com says they reached out to Iris van Herpen's PR team and that they confirmed the designer is not working on the film or with any of the actresses. So the designer who was rumored to be working on a costume which may or may not have been the wedding/mockingjay dress is now NOT working on the rumored costume. Confused? We are! Either way, this is excellent PR for the little-known Herpen. And as we all know, plenty of Hunger Games rumors have been flatly denied only to be confirmed later on. (See Sam Claflin as Finnick)
