Hunter Schafer is fluent in the language of alternative fashion, so it came as no surprise that the Euphoria star approached her look for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Berlin premiere with the same exacting attitude as her growing original red-carpet archive. This is, of course, the young actor who didn’t flinch when covering her chest with a single white feather— courtesy of new avant-garde plumage pro Ludovic de Saint Sernin—at the Vanity Fair Oscars party this year. Schafer is the perfect match for surrealist tour de force Schiaparelli and its risk-taking creative director Daniel Roseberry.
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Standing alongside her The Hunger Games co-star Rachel Zegler, it was Schafer who looked like the leading lady of the dystopian adventure franchise thanks to her abstract painterly Schiaparelli autumn/winter 2023 couture. The skin-tight mosaic-style dress with its raw hemline is emblematic of Roseberry’s “free, spontaneous, painterly” approach to fashion this season, after the brand was hit by controversy surrounding a faux taxidermy lion’s head modeled by Kylie Jenner for couture spring/summer 2023. If that bombastic statement showed the Texan designer’s inner desire to shake up the rigid inner workings of couture, then his latest offering showed a softer side to the couturier that doubled down on technique. (See the bump-revealing red-carpet look a pregnant Sienna Miller wore to Vogue World: London for further proof of the romance at the heart of his dreamlike craft).
