The queen of Halloween is back.
On Tuesday,Heidi Klum, 50, arrived at her annual Halloween bash with an entire team for her costume. For this year’s celebration, she went as a peacock, requiring the help of others for the peacock’s tail feathers.
Posing on the red carpet during her arrival at Marquee New York, she (and her colorful crew) stacked on top of each other, almost like a Cirque du Soleil act, to transform into a large, beautiful bird.
At the center was Klum in a cobalt blue bodysuit. TheAmerica’s Got Talentjudge wore an elaborate headpiece with a finely crafted beak.
Klum spoke exclusively to PEOPLE on the red carpet about her inspiration for this year’s costume.
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“I wanted to do a costume with many, many people. I wanted to have a bunch of people and we all become one thing. And for me, in my mind, that one thing was the peacock,” she says.
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The businesswoman added that she flew to Montreal to figure out how to stack everyone.
“My feet are a different pattern so my feet melt into his legs,” she tells PEOPLE, explaining how their placement was important for the hues of her costume.
Klum’s husband Tom Kaulitz walked the carpet as an egg.
Rachel Zegler and Josh Rivera; Coco and Ice-T; Taylor Lautner and Taylor Dome.Noam Galai/Getty
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Celebrity guests in attendance included Rachel Zegler, Ice-T and Coco, Taylor Lautner and Tay Dome, and more.
The model andProject Runwayhost says this costume has been in the works for anentire year. Each year she throws a star-studded Halloween bash, and the next morning, she’s already thinking up her next costume.
Klum is known for the dramatic lengths she goes to for the holiday, from learning to walk on stilts to going through hours of prosthetics. Whereas Klum oncedid her hair and makeup herself, today she has a team to help her.
In past years, Klum has dressed up as a cadaver, an old lady andPrincess Fionafrom Shrek, amongmany other iconic looks.
Heidi Klum dresses as an old lady in 2013.Cindy Ord/Getty
“I always try to find things that people naturally wouldn’t do,” Klumtold PEOPLEearlier this year.
Last year, Klum’s epic comeback (she had put the parties on pause due to the COVID pandemic) brought one of her most famous looks yet — aworm costume. The intense look, which revealed only Klum’s eyes and mouth, rendered her completely unrecognizable.
Heidi Klum celebrates Halloween as a worm in 2022.Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock
Klum’s Halloween history also includes herJessica Rabbitcostume in 2015, which required extensive prosthetics. Klum posted a video of the process on Instagram, revealing how they recreated the character’s features.
source: people.com
