We spent a number of Halloween’s outfitting ourselves in improvised costumes, usually at the last minute, and LOVED suddenly taking on a whole other persona for one magic night. If you haven’t gotten your Halloween act together yet, and want some inspiration, here’s a compendium of forage-able ideas from artists and designers…Salvador Dali offers loads of inspiration…a clock face perhaps? Stenciled grease paint numbers would do the trick (stencils are buyable at an art or crafts store).
Here’s an extraordinary costume Dali designed for Charles Henri Ford…doable with a black leotard, a lot of little gloves and a couple of big ones, found at an art supply or Halloween store.
Daniel Zendor’s No Bad Feelings Baby I’m into Good Ones Now, at top, offers the start of fine, rather spooky mask, perhaps in league with a black leotard striped with white tape…a hybrid of ideas…
The Bauhaus REALLY went in for costumes. Our favorites were designed by Oskar Schlemmer for ballet in the twenties. He LOVED stripes, which can be made with plumbers or day-glo gaffer’s tape on whatever you have at on hand…
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…A head-to-toe black body leotard with cut out white canvas or muslin glued to it and then painted could create some nice illusions…
Saul Steinberg was famously brilliant with cardboard…
…and paper bags
Walter van Beirendonck, a truly out-there designer in the fashion world shows particular brilliance when it comes to face makeup…
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We wish you the joy of transforming yourselves into something totally other on Halloween.
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