Stylist

A **stylist** was a key member of a tribute's team along with their mentor, prep team, and escort. Although they did not join the team until the tributes arrived in the Capitol, stylists played a key role in preparing the tributes for the Hunger Games, as they were responsible for their public representation. Newer stylists were typically assigned the least desirable districts such as 12, although for the 74th Hunger Games, Cinna Goldridge specifically requested Twelve. Tigris Snow, the cousin of President Coriolanus Snow, was a stylist. However, once she started showing disdain for his treacherous ways, he started gradually bumping her down to the poorer districts until the 69th Hunger Games, when she was fired.

The stylists created the entire wardrobe of the tributes during their stay in the Capitol prior to the Games. This made a stylist the most publicly known and visible member of the tribute's team, and many of them were familiar to the viewers, as they worked with multiple tributes. They worked closely with and supervised a prep team of two to three.

Before the 13th Hunger Games, there were no stylists, as few people in either the districts or the Capitol cared to watch the Hunger Games. Tributes were simply thrown into the Capitol Arena with whatever clothing they were wearing when they were reaped, which became rather dirty and soiled. An exception was Lucy Gray Baird during the 10th Hunger Games, whose colorful dress had been repaired and cleaned up by Tigris prior to her entering the arena.

## Purpose

Stylists came up with a number of different outfits and looks for the tribute before the actual commencement of the Games. They determined a certain look for the tribute depending on the situations in which they would appear and designed their wardrobe based on those themes, which could change. The stylists did their best to make their tributes look good so that they both could gain sponsors as well as play to the Capitol crowd. An exception to this was Severinus, a stylist who dressed his tributes as trees for 39 years. The exciting outfits could generate a lot of buzz and anticipation for the tribute before the Hunger Games started.

Stylists could also reflect a tributes personality. For instance, Finnick Odair's stylist had him wear a revealing outfit to reflect his flirty personality. They also sometimes made callbacks to previous outfits a tribute has worn, usually at The Reaping, except whenever they revamp an outfit from the Reaping, they usually overhaul it with Capitol fashion taste. An example of this the time when Barley Mayes met her stylist, Martin Cella. He showed her that he had made a prototype of a dress designed after the plain flaxen dress Barley's mother had sewed her for the Reaping. This remake however contained many features not on the original outfit.

## Tasks

The final outfit used for the chariot rides in the City Circle usually related to the industry corresponding to the tribute's district. Cinna and Portia, Katniss, and Peeta Mellark's respective stylists, created an outfit for both of them that represented District 12. Cinna created luscious black outfits for them but created parts of their costumes to catch fire and dazzle the audience.

### Interview

The stylists also designed outfits for their tribute's interview prior to the start of the Games. They did this again if they emerged as a victor. In the latter case, they were also responsible for designing their tribute's outfits during their Victory Tour.

### Arena

Stylists were the only members of the tribute's team permitted to accompany them right up to the start of the Games. They rode with them in the hovercraft to the arena and kept them company in their Launch Rooms until the tributes entered the arena via the tribute tubes. The stylists had no say in what the tributes wore when they went into the arena, and they could only give opinions to their tributes on what the material could be useful for. On the hovercraft, they had to use they fingernails to open the boxes with the arena wear, as knives were not permitted on the vehicle.

## Known stylists

* Cinna Goldridge - stylist of Katniss Everdeen.
* Delila Cella - stylist of Lillian Bond, Dagan Starche and Bill.
* Livia - stylist of Caspian Hadala.
* Malvia - stylist of Clarisse.
* Martin Cella - stylist of Barley Mayes and Annie Cresta.
* Portia - stylist of Abigail Harding and Peeta Mellark.
* Severinus - stylist of Blight Atwood, Cyprus, Cacia, Johanna Mason, Sawyer, and Ashley.
* Tigris Snow - stylist of Star, Lumina, Stanley Gleamway, Greene Goodman, Cecelia Losa, and Sarahva Boor.