Let the Games Begin! Today, Elle Fanning began press for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping in earnest, and clearly, she’s going all in on method dressing.
Fanning, who stars in the Hunger Games prequel as Effie Trinket (played in the original series by Elizabeth Banks), embraced Effie’s hallmark avant-garde maximalism for an event in London. For this occasion, she and stylist Samantha McMillen chose a Robert Wun dress from the fall 2026 couture collection.
Elle Fanning in London.
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Robert Wun fall 2026 couture, look 19.
Photo: Courtesy of Robert Wun
Fanning looked the part of a music box ballerina in a pale pink dress with a lace-up corset and a full tulle tea-length tutu skirt. Over the dress’s soft base was a second hardshell trompe l’oeil bodice with a sculpted, scalloped hem and open cups.
In keeping with Wun’s runway styling, Fanning opted for an outré headpiece: a pink pillbox hat with a ballerina balancing in passé atop her head. But not everything was in keeping with the couture runway: Fanning wore the skirt without as much support underneath, opting for a romantic skirt over a sharp, gravity-defying tutu. She also swapped Wun’s translucent spiked jelly clogs for a pair of pointe shoe-pink gathered-tulle Jimmy Choo pumps.
Still, while Elle Fanning made some slight adjustments to the kooky couture piece to make it more red carpet-friendly, it’s clear that this is only the start of a wild press tour.
