At Musée Rodin, Lionsgate is turning Panem’s visual language into a fashion experience — bringing iconic costumes, Capitol glamour and the world of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping to Paris Fashion Week.

Paris Fashion Week is known for turning fashion into spectacle. This season, one of cinema’s most recognisable fictional worlds is stepping into that conversation.

Coinciding with Paris Fashion Week, Lionsgate is bringing The Hunger Games to the French capital through ELEGANCE IS AUTHORITY: THE STORY, STYLE AND POWER OF PANEM, a one-day public exhibition exploring the relationship between fashion, identity and power within the franchise.

Set against the gardens of the Musée Rodin, the exhibition brings together key archival costumes from across The Hunger Games films alongside costumes from the upcoming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. The result is an immersive look at the silhouettes, styling and sartorial codes that have helped define Panem for audiences around the world.

When Fashion Becomes a Language of Power

In The Hunger Games, fashion has never existed simply for visual impact.

From the extravagant costumes of the Capitol to the ceremonial dressing surrounding the Games, clothing functions as a language. It establishes hierarchy, creates aspiration and communicates the power structures operating beneath Panem’s carefully constructed spectacle.

The exhibition explores precisely this relationship between style and authority.

The Capitol’s heightened glamour and calculated excess stand in contrast with the visual codes associated with other parts of Panem, creating a world where clothing can communicate status, character and control before a character even speaks.

It is this visual storytelling that has helped make The Hunger Games more than a cinematic franchise — it has become a recognisable fashion universe of its own.

A First Look at the Next Chapter of Panem

The exhibition also looks towards The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, the newest chapter in the franchise, which takes audiences back to the 50th Hunger Games.

Set at a pivotal point in Panem’s history, the film revisits an era when the Capitol’s pageantry, propaganda and control have reached an especially polished form, while the first signs of the rebellion that audiences know from the original films begin to emerge.

That makes costume particularly significant.

The world of Sunrise on the Reaping exists at the intersection of spectacle and unease — a place where grandeur can conceal control and where the most elaborate visual details can carry political and emotional meaning.

For audiences familiar with the franchise, the exhibition offers an opportunity to revisit that visual history while getting an early glimpse into the aesthetic world of its next chapter.

Paris Gets Its Own Glimpse of Panem

The exhibition will be unveiled on Tuesday, October 6, with an intimate opening activation featuring special appearances by Joseph Zada and McKenna Grace.

It will then open to the public for one day only on Wednesday, October 7, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Presented during one of fashion’s most influential weeks, the timing adds another layer to the experience. Paris becomes the meeting point between two worlds that understand the power of image: high fashion and cinema.

And perhaps that is what makes the exhibition particularly compelling. The Hunger Games has always understood that what people wear can tell a story — about ambition, belonging, rebellion, wealth and power.

In Paris, that story is being placed directly within the language of fashion.

The Next Era of Panem

With The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arriving in cinemas this November, ELEGANCE IS AUTHORITY offers a timely look at the visual DNA behind one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive worlds.

The film opens in France on November 18 and worldwide on November 20.

For fans, the exhibition is a chance to see the artistry behind the costumes up close. For fashion audiences, it offers another reminder that cinematic costume can extend far beyond the screen — becoming part of the cultural vocabulary through which we understand characters, worlds and power.

In Panem, elegance has always meant something more.

In Paris, it gets its own stage.