Some of the best Halloween parties are those thrown by fashion designers, walking around in the most elaborate and creative costumes imaginable. This should come as no surprise: they are the ones with the skills to make fantasy come true. Working with found objects (chairs, fig leaves, random pieces of fabric), low-cost materials, or using their know-how to create interesting looks, we asked 18 designers of the best Halloween costumes with them what they have done is sent to us or spent. From Academy Award-winning costume designer Sandy Powell and the fresh face of Yaku Stapleton, BFC NEWGEN, here’s a dig into their archives. Playboy bunnies game download.
Luca Magliano
“A Not-So-Menacing Zorro (1993). To be honest I really hated this, I just wanted to dress like The Little Mermaid or any princess.”
The inheritance of Thebes
“This is from my friend Rich Mnisi’s party in 2020. I went dressed as a ‘generic supporting character’ and my title was ‘American Waitress from any Quentin Tarantino film’. I found a red pinafore dress and put white flounces on it. Then I did a full plate of American Breakfast all afternoon balanced on one hand and a bottle of syrup on the other, which was later replaced by a cigarette. I couldn’t let go of dancing completely because I had to commit to the role!”
Hillary Taymour, Collina Strada
“As a Leo, I don’t think I’ve ever topped this outfit. I wore it for two years in a row because it was my favorite thing ever. I felt very much on my own.”
Conner Ives
“No one had any idea who I was: JFK Jr. at JFK Sr.’s funeral All right. It made so much sense in my head, but of course it was lost on anyone who didn’t know me or my views well enough. I have no regrets! The photo is blurry because we were at my best friend’s wedding, which was during Halloween weekend in 2022, and I think we were already drunk when I put on the costume. Kate Moss told me I had great legs.”
Alexandre Arsenault, KNWLS
“1995, I think I was 6 years old! The best thing is the chocolate bar outfit under the outfit.”
Sindiso Khumalo
“Back in 2013, I dressed as Marie Antoinette and my best friend Joseph was a dictator.”
Yaku Stapleton, YAKU
“All I needed was an old carpet and my job was done. I cut a circle with a craft knife and boom: Aladdin’s Carpet. The outfit is bad until you’re looking for your mixer, that’s in your bag, four doors away. It’s also a hindrance to dancing.”
Luke Derrick
“Oppenheimer Internship, 28/10/2023. Achieved via: St Michael jacket from eBay in 1970s, E. Tautz Oxford bags from internship in 2016, Brioni tie stash from another internship, and Zara shirt, designed in Spain on another placement from 2017 – curved CV. On top of my girlfriend’s Maison Michel hat, from her own 2018 internship with Chanel, she swears she won’t be bothered by a drop of rain. And an umbrella, to ensure the above.”
Sandy Powell
“This is from an event in 2009, Dine To Deathorganized by my designer friend Simon Costin, which has been held every two years since 1997. Usually hosted in his own home for 13 guests, this all-black dinner is occasionally experienced in other places like an empty church and in this case at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. Simon based the dinner on a quote from Count downa novel written by Joris-Karl Huysmans in 1884.”
Yonathan Carmel, Vautrait
“In 2017, my friends and I organized a series of parties in Tel Aviv. This photo was taken just before one of them started. I’m on the left, wearing a deconstructed wedding dress I made. The dress, no longer a coherent whole, shows the fragility of the structures and meanings we give to marriage. It plays with the tension between form and informality, tradition and disruption, challenging the assumption that marriage – like the dress – must be seamless, seamless, and unambiguously bound by a piece of paper. In its fragmented state, I invite viewers to rethink the ‘truths’ we take for granted about love, commitment and legality.”
Mike Eckhaus, Eckhaus Latta
“I’m gay (2021).”
Faith Oluwajimi, BLOKE
“In honor of Halloween mixing fashion and heritage, I have channeled the spirit of iconic Northern designer Azzedine Alaïa, and Jacqueline, my beauty, is stepping into the role as Alaïa’s leading lady.”
Anton Belinsky
“In Ukraine, Halloween is not celebrated. I rarely put on any costumes, and if I do, it’s a mix of random, weird items, like in the photo: a crossbow, ketchup, a shirt with Biden getting worse and my friend’s mask. Lately though, with everything going on in the world, I’ve been feeling like dressing up as a white angel. But as the inscription on King Solomon’s ring says: ‘This too shall pass.’ And that thought gives me peace.”
Goom Heo
“The film was in 2021 sand dunes came out and I wanted to be Gaius Helen Mohiam. She was my favorite character. I wore a black vintage 80s dress, a veiled headpiece and beaded gloves from our SS21 collection. My friend and I spent the whole day painting them all black in our studio. At the end of the night I had to leave the headpiece at the party – I couldn’t wear it anymore because it was too heavy to take home!”
Yoon Ahn
Joker meets Siouxsie Sioux (2016).
Marine Serre
“For Halloween, the black catsuit is the perfect costume, drawing from the rich history of heroines such as Catwoman, Trinity, Black Widow, and even the French heroine Fantômette. These women show that the black suit is more than just a suit – it’s a symbol of adaptability and strength. It allows women to embrace different aspects of themselves, moving between roles with confidence and poise. For me, it’s not just about emulating these heroines; it’s about joining a powerful tradition of bold, empowered women who aren’t afraid to take control of their identities and their futures.”
Georgiana Huddart
“Growing up, I remember seeing my mother dress up in her Hunza G Pretty Woman dress (the same one worn by Julia Roberts in the movie Pretty Woman) and always wanting to wear one myself! Years later, the dress is a truly iconic Halloween costume and I couldn’t think of a better excuse to dress up in it than on a recent trip to Mallorca, where we celebrated Hunza G’s 40th anniversary.”
Zoe Gustavia Anna Whalen
“There is a brief history of costumes that include a lot of body mass made from big old tights:
In 2016, I wore my first full body outfit made of about 10 pairs of sheer nude tights, with an empty liter coke bottle tucked under my hair to hold it up. The picture does not include the eyelashes I drew around my eyes.
In 2020, I was half a Little Red Riding Hood, as an excuse to wear this bright red prom dress from the 80s, which I was under pressure, which my enthusiastic friends gratefully accepted while I ate red jello in a kitchen.
In 2021 the tights came back as Eve (twin outfits, but my appearance is the only important one). I used a fig leaf from a tree in the back yard of my local laundromat, sawed three times before the dress party, ran a piece of wire through an apple and twisted the chain from my catelaine to create an apple bag, and threw a wreath of flowers fake taken from my living room decor.
For 2022, I was an angel, wearing a POSTER GIRL that I enjoyed from the SSENSE sale, vintage lingerie pieces and wings and a halo crafted from wire earlier that day in my studio.
For this year, this photo is my starting point… Do I go for a living room set, with my wearable chair on display? Or do I wear a parody of myself, putting back the tights and figuring out how to fit an Ikea chair on my body? (I think I prefer the latter, being my DIY girly heart.)”
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