Hunger Games 2026: Elegance Is Authority Brings Panem’s Costumes to Paris

Paris, Musée Rodin sculpture garden, 77 rue de Varenne, October 7, 2026 As Paris Fashion Week draws to a close, the French capital has found an unexpected new runway: Panem. On October 7 and 8, 2026, the sculpture garden of the Musée Rodin hosts Elegance Is Authority: The Story, Style and Power of Panem, a temporary installation devoted to the costumes and extraordinary visual language of The Hunger Games. Mulderville was invited to discover the exhibition on Wednesday, October 7, before its public opening. Rather than presenting a conventional retrospective of the franchise, Elegance Is Authority places costume at the center of the experience, bringing visitors unusually close to original screen-worn pieces alongside new costumes from the forthcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Seen at close range, these costumes reveal details that cinema may show for only a few seconds: fabrics, construction, silhouettes, textures and ornamentation. They also illustrate how the Capitol transforms fashion and appearance into spectacle, propaganda and political theater. Throughout The Hunger Games, clothing communicates status, allegiance, control and rebellion. The Musée Rodin installation develops this idea throughout the sculpture garden of the Hôtel Biron. Bronze animal imagery, golden chariots, banners celebrating the 50th Hunger Games and old television sets broadcasting Capitol-style propaganda transform the elegant Parisian setting into a temporary showcase for Panem. Archival costumes appear alongside new creations, connecting the visual identity of the original Hunger Games films with the next chapter of the saga. Familiar references to Katniss Everdeen and the flamboyant style of Effie Trinket remind visitors that fashion in Panem is never simply decorative. It can manufacture celebrity, reinforce hierarchy, disguise violence or become a powerful symbol of resistance. The exhibition arrives shortly before The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, the sixth film in the franchise, directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the 2025 novel by Suzanne Collins. Set 24 years before the original Hunger Games, the story returns to the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. For this anniversary, each district must send twice the usual number of tributes, placing 48 young competitors inside the arena instead of 24. At the center of the story is 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy, played by Joseph Zada, decades before he becomes the damaged District 12 mentor portrayed by Woody Harrelson in the original films. Sunrise on the Reaping also introduces younger versions of several familiar Panem figures. Jesse Plemons plays Plutarch Heavensbee, Elle Fanning becomes Effie Trinket, Kieran Culkin portrays Caesar Flickerman and Ralph Fiennes takes on the role of President Coriolanus Snow. Glenn Close appears as District 12 chaperone Drusilla Sickle, while Mckenna Grace plays Maysilee Donner. The ensemble also includes Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Lili Taylor, Billy Porter and Ben Wang. The public exhibition was preceded on October 6 by a gala at the Musée Rodin attended by Joseph Zada and Mckenna Grace. Grace’s gown referenced Katniss Everdeen’s memorable wedding-dress imagery from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, creating a deliberate connection between the franchise’s past and its new generation. The campaign for Sunrise on the Reaping is also expanding through music. Noah Kahan released “Draw You Out” as the lead single from The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album), co-written and co-produced with Aaron Dessner. The soundtrack is executive-produced by Dave Cobb, while composer James Newton Howard returns to score the movie, continuing one of the franchise’s defining musical traditions. Inside the Musée Rodin, the contrast between Panem’s manufactured glamour and the historic sculpture garden gives the exhibition much of its impact. Visitors can study the costumes not simply as movie props but as carefully designed objects whose textures, scale, colors and construction contribute directly to the world-building of The Hunger Games. The exhibition ultimately reinforces one of the saga’s central ideas: power depends on presentation. The Capitol transforms domination into entertainment, while its opponents learn to use the same visual language as an instrument of defiance. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Directed by Francis Lawrence Written by Billy Ray, Michael Lesslie Adaptation by Suzanne Collins Based on Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins Produced by Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Francis Lawrence Starring Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Mckenna Grace, Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak, Kelvin Harrison Jr. Cinematography : Jo Willems Edited by Mark Yoshikawa Music by James Newton Howard Production company : Color Force Distributed by Lionsgate