It is impossible for anyone to miss the newest book-to-movie sensation created by The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. With the movie coming out in a little more than a month, the names Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are flooding every media source.

While many are greatly anticipating the Reaping that will take place on March 23, they do not have to look far to satisfy their obsession. One of the newest creations for the Panem-crazed fans is Capitol Couture.

Based on the fashion worn by the residents of the Capitol, Capitol Couture is modeled after any fashion magazine but presented as a blog. Currently the site features the style of Effie Trinket, escort to Katniss and Peeta for The Hunger Games.

Upon visiting the blog, fit with Panem’s own country domain extension of .pn, viewers are greeted with an image of Effie. She is the epitome of Capitol Couture.

With cotton candy pink hair and china-white skin, she has on a Japanese kimono inspired belted dress that matches the color of her hair. Adding to the ensemble are her gold accents. Her hair is flourished with a large gold flower; she has a silky gold shirt on under her kimono dress.

Attention is drawn to her blue eyes through harsh pink eye shadow. The final touch is her doll-like lips drawn on with light blue lipstick. If one scrolls further down the page, Effie’s golden peep-toe booties will be waiting.

For someone unknowing of the world of Panem and the fashion within the Capitol, this may not seem all that strange, though.

Both the description above and images of Capitol Couture hit very close to home. Not only is this considered couture in the Capitol, but it is couture in the real world also.

Effie could easily be a model two seconds away from walking down the runway at Bryant Park. Many of the other styles and tips featured on the Capitol Couture blog are seen on our runways and featured in our magazines.

Yet for readers of The Hunger Games trilogy, something seemed so twisted and narcissistic about the style in the Capitol.

While the districts supplied for the Capitol and suffered, the Capitol bathed itself in luxuries and decadence. On top of this, the way Suzanne Collins described Capitol residents, they seemed foreign, as if beings from a different planet. Who would die their skin a pea green or get whiskers implanted in their face?

While the whisker implants are a bit drastic, this world is really not all that foreign. How many times have models walked down the runway looking like a creature from another planet?

How many times have magazines featured pictures of girls dressed like animals or with so much make-up on that their natural skin color is absent?

At the end of the day, the grotesque and self-centered style of the Capitol is really just an exaggeration of couture in the fashion world.

It shows the world as it would be if people began to dress like Lady Gaga and don Alexander McQueen styles to do every day tasks like grocery shopping or going to the movies.