Overview

• Rachel Zegler, starring as Lucy Gray Baird in the upcoming 'Hunger Games' prequel, 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', paid homage to the franchise's original heroine, Katniss Everdeen, by donning a fiery gown at the film's Berlin premiere.
• The gown, a black strapless Alexander McQueen piece from the Fall-Winter 2022 collection, featured a dramatic mermaid tail printed with a large-scale blood-red orchid, creating an abstract flame-like design. This design recalled Katniss Everdeen's iconic flaming dress from the second film, 'Catching Fire'.
• The prequel film, set 64 years prior to the original series, explores the 10th annual Hunger Games, where Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from District 12, is mentored by a young Coriolanus Snow, the future tyrannical president of Panem.
• Director Francis Lawrence has described Zegler's Lucy Gray as the 'anti-Katniss', indicating the character's contrasting traits. Where Katniss was seen as an introverted survivor, Lucy Gray is portrayed as charming, mercurial, and manipulative.
• Rachel Zegler's co-star, 'Euphoria' actress Hunter Schafer, also made waves with her couture ensemble from Schiaparelli’s latest collection. The colourful, seemingly paint-stroke constructed midi-dress was seen as fitting for her character, the quirky Capitol stylist Tigris Snow.