As ever, Halloween was an excuse for the A-list to pull out all the stops with their costumes. Because — especially in celebrity world — dressing for Hallow’s Eve is almost an Olympic sport.
Of course, it was never in question that the most elaborate costume, prosthetics and mastery of disguise would be performed by Heidi Klum. The model’s annual Heidiween party has been a tradition since 2000, and this year was a collab with Amazon Prime. In the past few years she’s spent hours in makeup to become everything from a peacock to a giant, life-like worm, and this year was just elaborate, as she was E.T. from the 1982 classic Steven Spielberg starring Drew Barrymore.
Her non-human guise featured glassy blue eyes and the character’s wrinkled body, with her real eyes peeking out from the neck. She wore the alien’s ‘human’ disguise of a blonde wig, bowler hat and red scarf. Her husband Tom Kaulitz went as the undressed version of the character.
Though it has to be mentioned that Janelle Monae also did an E.T look, wrapped in a white blanket. “ET returns 42 years later and ready to go back already,” she wrote on Instagram, adding that the film’s director had made her believe in magic.
Also in serious amounts of prosthetics was Chicken Shop host Amelia Dimoldenberg as Monster’s Inc’s Roz. Also known for going big with her Halloween costumes, last year she went as a convincing Mr Bean.
Though it wasn’t all about Thursday night looks: many stars stepped out in their dress-up days before the 31st. And wisely so: waiting until the actual night means that someone else has already worn a version of whatever you thought was a super original idea (see: Janelle and Heidi).
Lizzo, Kylie Jenner and Sophie Turner were wisely early with their scary best. Well actually Turner went more down the sexy route (Trinity from the Matrix) and Lizzo’s costume was more metaphorically scary, as she dressed as a self-branded alternative to weight loss drug Ozempic.
Let us explain: the singer was dressed in a giant faux medicine box which was cinched at the waist with a measuring tape, and decorated with her name along with some small print including “FDA approved,” “diet suppressor,” and “for single patient use only.” And if you were wondering why she posed with a person dressed in a Cartman costume in some of her social media shots, it’s because the look is a nod a satirical episode of South Park entitled: The End of Obesity, which included a spoof advert for a product named Lizzo. The fictional potion promised to make people “no longer care about their weight.” Well, she couldn’t not really, could she.
Other spooky star turns included Anne Hathaway as a ghostly Statue of Liberty and Ice Spice as LeeLoo from the Fifth Element. Here’s all the best looks from Halloween 2024.
