The supermodel’s Halloween bash — and elaborate costumes — have change into certainly one of New York Metropolis’s most anticipated occasions.
NEW YORK — After a lot anticipation, Heidi Klum revealed her 2025 Halloween costume, arriving to her annual bash totally reworked into Medusa, full with a head stuffed with shifting snakes and an extended snake tail.
The 52-year-old supermodel teased followers all through the day with images and movies showcasing the costuming course of, together with creepy fangs, inexperienced alien contacts and wrinkled, scaly, monstrous flesh.
For the final 20 years, Klum has reworked Halloween from a easy vacation into an artwork type.
Klum’s journey to Halloween royalty started modestly. At her first social gathering in 2000, she arrived in a leather-based dominatrix costume — a glance she now calls “boring” in comparison with her later extravaganzas.
“I needed to do my very own hair and make-up,” Klum instructed Jimmy Fallon in August. “I did not know anybody on the time who does particular results make-up.”
By 2001, she was using into her second annual social gathering on an actual horse as Girl Godiva.
The annual Halloween bash has since change into certainly one of New York Metropolis’s most anticipated occasions, drawing celebrities and media consideration as everybody waits to see what unimaginable transformation Klum has achieved.
Final 12 months, Klum and husband Tom Kaulitz arrived as matching variations of E.T., with Klum portraying a feminine interpretation of the beloved alien. The costume required a 12 months of planning and the work of about 30 particular results artists. The flowery prosthetics hid her face within the neck of the costume.
“It was so heavy holding that head on my head as a result of it goes from the again to the entrance,” Klum instructed Fallon. “I assumed my neck was going to snap off.”
The 12 months earlier than, she turned heads as a dwelling peacock, with 9 Cirque du Soleil acrobats forming her tail feathers whereas Kaulitz arrived as a large egg.
However Klum’s 2022 transformation into a large earthworm stays certainly one of her most talked-about costumes. The hyper-realistic invertebrate took two years to create and 10 hours to placed on. Her complete physique was coated aside from her eyes, mouth and the sneakers peeking out from the underside.
Kaulitz accomplished the idea as a fisherman with a bloody eye, his hook hooked up to his spouse’s costume.
Klum mentioned she begins planning her subsequent costume on Nov. 1, the day after every social gathering.
“I often have two or three concepts that I am taking part in with after which I determine on one factor,” she instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “You need to determine at one level as a result of items must be constructed and all of that.”
She works with prosthetic make-up designers, costume creators and particular results groups to carry her visions to life. For costumes requiring heavy prosthetics, she limits her meals and liquid consumption three hours earlier than the social gathering.
“I embrace that title,” she mentioned of being referred to as the Queen of Halloween. “And I all the time need to reside as much as it, 12 months after 12 months.”
