Halloween falls on a Thursday this year, which is obviously nowhere near as fun as a Friday or Saturday Devil’s Night. The silver lining is that festivities will spread across two weekends and I’ll have an excuse to pre-kend party.

But when that October 25th Halloween party invite hit, the panic set in. The month, like all of fall, is flying by and I still don’t have my costume ready! I need something cool, I need something cute, and I need something now. I have a spooky slash creative personal reputation to upkeep!

If you’re in the same boat, don’t fret. HALOSCOPE’s own fearless Fashion Editor Olivia Linnea Rogers has some costume ideas in store for you for this week’s STAR✦MAIL.

HALOSCOPE Fashion Editor Olivia Linnea Rogers devises some great last-minute fashion costume ideas, featuring visuals by Micaela Jarlstam:

The Official Star Mail

Halloween Costume Guide

by OLIVIA LINNEA ROGERS

Have you been shamefully eying that grey pinstripe set you bought earlier this year swearing ‘office siren’ was your new thing? What about that cropped white tee with the pink bow graphic? Don’t fret, these trends may be dead dead dead, but Halloween is a night when ghosts walk among the living. Here are my Halloween costume picks for 2024, some with, I assume, items entirely from your own closet.

Porcelain Margiela Doll

How do you let everyone at the Halloween party know you’re cooler than them? Well, dress up like a Martin Margiela doll of course. The Margiela show took over every aspect of the fashion world after their Haute Couture show this Spring. Follow the official Pat McGrath makeup tutorial. Try out the walk. Dress yourself in corsets and organza in moody shades of burnt orange and midnight blue.

Anna Wintour

Easier to do if you’re already in possession of a bob. Whip on your biggest sunglasses, something structured with a big print or small pattern and, if you’re really dedicated, bring along a thick folder and take away coffee cup.

“Just A Girl” Girl

Get out those pink satin bows and pointelle knits. You might not be able to coax Bambi with you to the bar but consider bringing her stuffed counterpart. All your eclectic charms, and the phone case you impulse bought. This look is all more more more to show that after all you are just a girl.

Carrie Bradshaw

Sad because you don’t have big plans for Halloween? In my opinion, not enough people use the holiday as an excuse to source some designer pieces. Pick your favourite Carrie look and spend the money you would’ve spent on drinks, Ubers and take away on a fashion investment instead.

Or if you’re more like Carrie in personality, than style, just get the tutu skirt out and get sloshed on Cosmo’s – it’s what she would’ve wanted.

Chappell Roan

Bonus points if you have big red curly hair. You’ll no doubt be recognisable as the rising star of 2024. The great bit about dressing up as Chappell is that she has such a wide range of looks to pick from, as long as you go all out, for the makeup, face gems and outfit, it doesn’t really matter if you’re an exact replica. But platform shoes are a must.

Doja Cat at the Met Gala

Already cried all your makeup off? Whip on a white t-shirt and soak it down with some hairspray to get this highly controversial Met Gala look. Extra points for nothing underneath. Go for a super long Grecian cut like Doja or just pick whatever t-shirt your boyfriend’s willing to sacrifice.

Challengers

In a love triangle – romantic or platonic? Come on, this one’s easy: tack a baseball cap on your blond beau and a tennis racket into the hand of your brunet. Book a hotel room for the end of the night. If you’re single and/or lazy the Jonathon Anderson ‘I TOLD YA’ tee is iconic enough on its own at this point.

Jeremy Fragrance and A Bottle of Perfume

Me and my boyfriend have been talking about doing this costume for ages, and what the hell the more the Jerem-ier (does that work?) Put your significant other in a full white outfit and dress yourself in either lots of tulle, to mimic something like Dior’s Pure Poison, or something slinky and glassy to look more like J’Adore or Youth Dew by Estee Lauder. If you want to go less abstract dress up as everyone’s favourite little robot bottle in silver with black sunglasses. 

Office Siren

Channel Gisele Bundchen in The Devil Wears Prada (and your whole TikTok for-you-page last spring). It’s okay, we all thought this trend wasn’t going to get so annoying so quickly. This is a great opportunity that wear that set that looked totally office appropriate online!

And if you’ve unfortunately ended up at a non-fashion related party you can always tell the frat guys that you’re just a ‘sexy secretary’.

Enjoy this interactive website from Museum at FIT’s 2008-2009 Goth exhibit:

Take a look at this diva:

And, lastly, I am shamelessly sharing my Halloween Playlist: