Heidi Klum reveals behind-the-scenes of making her iconic Halloween look
Heidi Klum turned heads at her annual Halloween occasion along with her newest iconic outfit – however do not stare at her for too lengthy, as you might flip to stone.
The supermodel, 52, remodeled into Medusa on Friday (31 October) forward of the star-studded bash in New York.
As everyone knows by now, she would not do issues by halves – so in fact, her headpiece was kitted out with a number of mechanical snakes which wiggled on prime of her head.
Klum, who has been dubbed the ‘Queen of Halloween’ because of her unending run of spectacular costumes, revealed that her elaborate get-up was crafted by a workforce of about 15 individuals.
Her husband, German musician Tom Kaulitz, appeared alongside her on the purple carpet and to match her Medusa look, he aptly dressed as a warrior who she had turned to stone.
In line with Greek mythology, the monstrous determine who had dwelling snakes as a substitute of hair had the power to petrify those that checked out her, they usually had been immediately turned to stone.
It took a grand whole of ten hours for the couple to prepare, whereas Klum revealed that her complicated costume – which was handmade and painted by hand – took a staggering 5 months to create.
The Mission Runway host gave followers an concept about the entire painstaking work that went into this yr’s rig-out by sharing snippets of her preparing course of on Instagram.
She first set tongues wagging by sharing a snap of some terrifying-looking fangs in her mouth, which was adopted up by a video of the huge arrange in her dressing room.
Her stash of Halloween provides would make any make-up artist swoon – though it additionally goes to indicate simply how a lot work it requires to make a ‘Heidiween’-worthy costume.
Klum then uploaded varied clips displaying the steps of her dramatic transformation into Medusa, which began along with her face being painted inexperienced earlier than prosthetics had been then meticulously utilized.
She even documented the second a member of her glam squad one way or the other fought by way of the bogus snake-like pores and skin which coated her face and squeezed a contact lens into her eye.
Regardless of Klum dropping these clues earlier than she made her huge reveal, social media customers utterly missed the mark when guessing what she is likely to be for Halloween 2025.
Talking to Leisure Tonight concerning the painstaking work that went into her costume, the Mission Runway host revealed that she has been planning to embody the enduring monster for just a few years now.
She defined: “I’ve seen so many individuals do Medusa prior to now and I believed, I will try to actually nail Medusa one yr’. And this yr was the yr!”
Klum mentioned that she and Kaulitz ‘could not wait to’ get out of their E.T. the Further-Terrestrial costumes final yr as they had been so claustrophobic, however the couple fared loads higher this time round.
“Immediately I am really okay, that is completely doable,” she continued. “To construct [the costume], it took about 5 months, as a result of it is all hand-painted, all handcrafted and the entire totally different prosthetics.
“I have been in hair and make-up for about ten hours,” she added, whereas Kaulitz additionally admitted it had taken ‘a very long time’ for him to rework right into a stone warrior.
“Shrek and ET had been method tougher, so that is a simple yr for me,” Kaulitz added. “It seems to be superb, however I can really occasion on this!”
Klum then admitted that the ‘most difficult half’ about being Medusa was that her costume meant she could not sit down or go to the toilet.
On prime of that, the fangs she was sporting had been ‘actually spiky’, seeing her jokingly warn, “If I’m drooling blood, it isn’t pretend blood.”
In an Instagram submit shared post-Halloween occasion, Klum praised the unbelievable workforce who had obtained her prepared, whereas explaining additional why she opted to go as Medusa this Halloween.
“For #HeidiHalloween 2025, I set my gaze on bringing a traditional monster into the trendy world, and Medusa was irresistible…iconic, mysterious, ferocious,” she wrote.
“Her legend and the artwork she’s impressed show how haunting and timeless her energy is. @tomkaulitz one other yr, one other costume. A Gorgon is simply as highly effective because the ssssspectacular workforce behind her.
“From the underside of my stone chilly coronary heart, thanks for remodeling me from mortal to delusion. It really takes a village.”
You possibly can say that once more, Heidi.
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