Join Martha Stewart as she embraces the magic of Halloween with her stunning costume transformation into a queen! In this video, Martha and the experts behind the elaborate costume share her creative process, highlighting all the little details that make the character come to life.
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00:00Halloween is a time to sort of disguise, to show off, to have fun, and to transform.
00:17That's pretty.
00:18What about the earrings?
00:19There's two sets.
00:20Oh, they sent earrings.
00:22I love transformation, and I think it's so much fun to become somebody else, something else.
00:30So hair was about an hour and 10 minutes.
00:34Makeup starting now.
00:37So in preparation, I did masks for a week.
00:41Collagen mask, gold mask, Azulene mask, pearl mask.
00:46And what else did we do?
00:48Eyebrows, of course.
00:52Even on the Elizabethan age, many women shaved their eyebrows or plucked them.
00:56I don't know what they did in those days.
00:58Maybe threaded them.
01:00Something about Halloween has always fascinated me.
01:02I always loved to get dressed up from the time I was a very, very, very young girl.
01:10Everything I'm wearing is craft, except for the gloves, right?
01:13And except for this necklace.
01:15This is Sabi Asachi.
01:17But everything else...
01:21Hi, my name is Jenny Pete.
01:22I'm normally a draper at the Metropolitan Opera,
01:25but I'm here to design a costume for Martha Stewart's Halloween coverage.
01:29So our inspiration came mostly from the coronation portraits of Elizabeth I.
01:34She's got this great cape that has an ermine capelet and a gold cape.
01:40But we didn't want to use actual fur tails, obviously.
01:43So we had the great idea of using chandelier crystals, actually,
01:46to create the shape, the color of that very rich ermine tail.
01:51I got about 26 different gold fabrics.
01:54So I went to 18 different stores between trims and fabrics.
01:59That's polyester organza behind it.
02:02And then it's backed with tulle and a little bit of nylon horsehair braid
02:07that you would normally use for a skirt hem,
02:09just to beef out that edge and give it that lovely pleat.
02:15And there's wire in the back.
02:18This is 14-gauge aluminum crafting wire you would usually use for jewelry.
02:24But it allows the ruff to be posed.
02:27You can bend it to be whatever curve you want it to be.
02:31Every Halloween is fun.
02:33I remember dragging a surfboard in a wetsuit up Park Avenue,
02:39and I looked like I had been surfing by the time I got to the Waldorf Hotel
02:44for Bette Midler's big Halloween,
02:48because no taxi would take me with a surfboard.
02:51So I had to drag from 26th Street to 50th Street.
02:55But it was fun. That was a fun party.
02:57My favorite costume.
02:58I loved my Mysterious Equestrian. That was a good one.
03:03I liked the Motha costume a lot, where I was transformed into a moth.
03:09We joked and called it Motha.
03:12And I liked, oh, I loved the Bloody Nurse.
03:16I won first prize at a very fancy party, Bloody Nurse.
03:21I'm now being a queen.