Comfortable Halloween! It’s not formally All Hallows’ Eve till Heidi Klum unveils her costume, and tonight, the supermodel debuted her extremely anticipated look in New York Metropolis. Drumroll, please: For her twenty fourth annual Heidiween get together, Klum slithered onto the Onerous Rock Lodge pink carpet dressed as… Medusa! “I sit up for Halloween all yr,” Klum advised Vogue shortly earlier than arriving on the occasion. “I’ve been doing this for twenty-four years, and hope I can do it eternally. Yearly, I get extra impressed and extra enthusiastic. It’s only a excellent day to be foolish, costume up, dance with pals, be inventive, and eat sweet!”
Yr after yr, Klum retains followers guessing as to what she’ll costume up as: She has arrived as Jessica Rabbitt, a peacock, E.T., and a notoriously-creepy worm. This yr, she switched issues up but once more, and was impressed to reinterpret a mythological Greek determine. “I needed to discover the traditional monsters of historical past, and reimagine one in a contemporary method,” says Klum. “Medusa stood out to me as really iconic—mysterious but ferocious. The legend of her turning people to stone has fascinated audiences for hundreds of years. In museums, numerous work and sculptures depict her haunting energy, a testomony to how terrifying and compelling she stays.”
The hand-painted costume—which required 9 hours within the make-up chair—options extraordinary particulars, like shifting mechanical snakes positioned atop Klum’s head. “I really like that the entire snakes transfer independently—they appear so actual,” says Klum. “I even have a customized cut up snake tongue that’s simply subsequent degree. I really like a problem, so I’m all the time striving to outdo myself from the years earlier than.”
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