“You don’t think of it as science fiction. “One thing about the books is, you really relate to these people,” Makovsky says of The Hunger Games series, which she read virtually overnight.
Judianna Makovsky, the movie’s costume designer, is accustomed to dressing characters that come with fanantic expectations in addition to realizing the wardrobe for over twenty-five films, including Great Expectations, Pleasantville, The Legend of Bagger Vance, and X-Men: The Last Stand, she received an Academy Award nomination for her work on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Fashion, it turns out, factors heavily into this dystopian future. While the movie’s protagonists, 16-year-olds Katniss and Peeta, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, are paraded through the dismal publicity festivities that precede their dreaded time in competition, what they and the deranged inhabitants of the pristine Capitol city wear is given scrupulous attention and described in evocative detail by Collins. While you stomach the disturbing truths contained in that sentence, consider another linchpin in the series: During the lead up to the games, every child receives a stylist (it may be saying something about the increasing fascination with stylists that fictitious children dropped into the wilderness and left to pursue each other with primitive means of weaponry are first paired with personal wardrobe consultants to determine how best to work with their silhouette).
If the hysteria surrounding The Hunger Games has somehow skipped you-let me bring you up to speed: On Friday, the enormously anticipated motion picture adaptation of the first book in **Suzanne Collins’**s highly addictive, action-packed, slightly twisted trilogy opens in theaters, the premise of which is children in the country of Panem (formerly North America), plucked from their respective districts to fight each other to the death on camera as a national pastime.
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