Gina Scarnati
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| Gina Scarnati |
Gina Scarnati originally is a professional costume designer but worked as a milliner in The Hunger Games film. Scarnati produced all the hats and headpieces shown in the film a total of 192 headpieces done in under six weeks, 20 days in a row and 16 hours non-stop. The aim was the hats to evoke each district in the film. Obviously she created all of the headpieces Effie Trinket worn in the film, including the iconic magenta flower headpiece seen in the first part of the film.
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| Effie Trinket in Entertainment's Weekly |
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| The opening scene wearing the magenta flower |
The training and education Scarnati in making hats was given by Andrea Barrier but also she attended Dean's University and created her own major theatre production and costume designs. While still an undergraduate she followed courses from the Professional Theatre Training Program as theatre is one of her passions that she truly loves. Gina Scarnati worked in many productions such as "Snow White and the Huntsman", True Blood also with professional theatre companies in Delaware.
Although Gina Scarnati focused on flower headpieces rather than hats, in Effie Trinket attire we still see that Victorian element in the creations .Flowers were very much used in Victorian hats and headpieces.The colours worn on Trinket bright and vivid are the same colours they wore back in the Victorian era. Apart from the colours, Effie Trinket style is very much inspired from the Victorian, the puffed sleeves on a tailored jacket, the pencil skirt with frills that make up a suit complementing a prim and proper look just like Victorian women. Scarnati and Trish Summerville wanted to create uncomfortable outfits and shoes, to adapt with Trinket's discomfort in living the Capitol's lifestyle in which by time she realise that it was damaging for the habitants. Victorian outfits were uncomfortable due to puffed, big skirts,tight corsets,heavy hats sometimes and more. Victorian Women sometimes couldn't walk or sit properly.Accessories like long gloves, brooches, chunky flower collars even the big curly hair all of them originated in the nineteenth century.
Artika Rangan Casini ,2013. Hunger Games Hats. [online] Available at:< http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/mar/scarnati-hunger-games-032912.html >
[Accessed 17 January 2014]
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