The queen of Halloween has done it again. Like every year, Heidi Klum has dressed up for the great American horror festival and, this time, she has decided to be truly scary: she warned it, and she delivered. Hence, the 52-year-old German model and presenter has become a sensation with a greenish jellyfish costume, with a nest of moving snakes as a headdress (and some more coiled around her body). You couldn’t even see the German woman’s legs or feet, covered with the jellyfish body, full of green scales.
Like every year, Klum’s transformation process has been long, lasting up to nine hours, as she herself has said, but also widely documented. The model has been showing each step of the process since one in the afternoon (Eastern time in the United States), when she showed the first piece of her costume, some sharp fangs. Then, to the rhythm of Berghain of Rosalía, has been revealing the steps: how they combed her hair or, rather, how they hid her hair; how they put contact lenses and prosthetics on him and the corset he wore. This is how he finished off the night by posing in front of his guests and the media at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York. She was accompanied by her husband, Tom Kaulitz, guitarist of the band Tokyo Hotel, who was dressed as a stone warrior, unable to fight the mythological Medusa.
Little by little and throughout the day the presenter of Project Runway has shown how her face and head, now hairless, were turning green, thanks to the work of prosthetics expert Mike Marino, who has accompanied her throughout the process. Marino is an expert who has transformed Sebastian Stan into Edward, a man with a disfigured face, for his role as the Penguin. A Different Man.
This year, Klum herself warned that her costume would be “extra unpleasant” and that it would be “very scary,” and she delivered. The costume was hand painted in green tones and scales that ended in a snake’s tail. “Medusa has always seemed to me to be a truly iconic character, both mysterious and ferocious. The legend that she turned humans into stone has fascinated the public for centuries. In museums, countless paintings and sculptures depict her haunting power, demonstrating how terrifying and captivating she still is,” Klum told the magazine. Vogue.
The model’s party held every Halloween is a classic that grows over the years. In fact, this year the model has teamed up with several brands, such as the Empire State Building and Butterfinger chocolate bars, for the same; and the night before she held a celebration at a pizzeria in New York surrounded by friends such as designers Jeremy Scott and Christian Siriano.
Klum’s Halloween-esque follies occupy media attention every year, but the truth is that few delve into the subject like the model. from the 1982 Steven Spielberg film; then she went to match with her husband.
In 2023, with herself converted into the central body of the bird and surrounded by 10 dancers from the Cirque du Soleil. Her husband was then dressed as a turkey egg. The year before, Klum dressed up as a nasty worm. Other years she has done it as a bionic woman, as a goddess Shiva, as a chimpanzee, as Betty Boop, as Jessica Rabbit, as a vampire, as Fiona and Shrek (matching Kaulitz) or as herself as an old woman, surrounded by half a dozen identical doubles or herself but from the inside, showing her muscles.
