Martha Stewart is prepared for spooky season!
Tuesday marked the primary day of October and the house and hospitality residing legend, 83, gave an unique behind-the-scenes look at her Halloween costume for this 12 months, whereas reflecting on previous favorites.
In a clip posted to YouTube, Stewart additionally mentioned a earlier event that required some severe dedication to her costume.
“Each Halloween is enjoyable,” she stated whereas sitting in a hair and make-up chair on set.
“I bear in mind dragging a surfboard in a wetsuit up Park Avenue, and I seemed like I had been browsing by the point I acquired to the Waldorf resort for Bette Midler’s massive Hulaween as a result of no taxi would take me with a surfboard,” Stewart stated.
As she defined, a photograph of her costume from Oct. 30, 1998, appeared on the display.
Within the snapshot, the businesswoman smiled as she posed in a black long-sleeved Physique Glove wetsuit with teal trimming. Her hair did look like moist as she held onto her accent — an precise boogie board.
“So, I needed to drag [it] from twenty sixth Road to fiftieth Road. However it was enjoyable. That was a enjoyable social gathering,” she added of the unforgettable night time.
This 12 months, Stewart went as The Queen of Halloween. Her costume was impressed “largely from the coronation footage of [Queen] Elizabeth I.”
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“Halloween is a time to, kind of, disguise, to indicate off, to have enjoyable and to remodel,” Stewart stated to start with of the video.
“I really like transformation, and I believe it’s a lot enjoyable to turn out to be someone else, one thing else.”
As her glam group prepped her for the journal’s cowl shoot, she shared skincare prep suggestions, whereas going by way of a lot of her standout costumes — together with the time she went as a moth, referring to herself as “Moth-a Stewart.”
“Halloween is sort of upon us once more, and I am thrilled to share this very particular quantity with you. It’s our ode to the enjoyable and festive occasion, as properly all the fun of the early fall season. Now could be a time that I look ahead to yearly, particularly as the warmth of summer time offers approach to these cooler and sensible autumn days,” she stated in an announcement shared with PEOPLE.
“Come September, I am able to go apple selecting within the orchard and begin deciding on fascinating pumpkins from the patch to show on the farm and round my house. This 12 months, my editors topped me Queen of Halloween! As they properly know, I really like to dream up an important costume and get within the spirit. I’ve dressed as so many alternative characters through the years — but by no means a royal. The ultimate outcome was enjoyable and simple to make, and feels regal and chic to put on. I believe I am prepared for Halloween. Now my solely query is, what is going to you be?”
Martha Stewart Halloween is out there now on newsstands and Amazon.