For a 22e This year, star model Heidi Klum threw a huge Halloween party. And for her costume, which always turns heads this year, she turned to Cirque du Soleil. More than forty circus employees worked with her for weeks to design a very impressive giant peacock.
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At the beginning of September, Heidi Klum contacted Cirque about collaborating on its famous Halloween party. Klum herself had been thinking about dressing up as a peacock, and she wanted to use the Quebec company’s expertise to take her idea to another level.
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“In Cirque we are never on the surface. “Yes, it has to be nice, but we do our homework,” Cirque creative director Michel Laprise tells the Journal. We explored the symbolism of the peacock.”
Pretty quickly, Michel Laprise told Heidi Klum that she needed to come to Cirque’s Montreal headquarters in person to complete the project. “She didn’t hesitate for long. We have the most beautiful creative studio in the world.”
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On October 11th, Heidi Klum arrived at the Cirque in the utmost secrecy and under high security and spent several hours trying on and meeting the artists. “She was like a little girl in a candy store,” says Michel Laprise.
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Hours of rehearsals
In total, 29 people from the Cirque worked on the costumes, in addition to 10 acrobats and five people on the makeup.
Makeup artist Bill Corso (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens) created the magical peacock effect. Costume designer Marie Chantale Vaillancourt (KÀ, Kooza) and creative directors Marie-Hélène Delage and Émilie Grenon-Emiroglou worked on the project.
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“2,000 hours were spent on this costume,” says Michel Laprise. There was 20 hours of rehearsal for a few seconds of appearance on the red carpet. And the costume required 200 meters of fabric.”
The peacock they imagined required the participation of 10 artists surrounding Heidi Klum. And instead of just positioning themselves together for the photographers, they also created a little choreography. “We wanted to show the birth of the peacock,” says Michel Laprise.
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Heidi was very committed
From the first conversations with Cirque, Heidi Klum herself was very involved. She paid for everything. “She was on Zoom every time. We held several coordination meetings. […] She told us she was a big Cirque fan.”
Heidi Klum’s Halloween party took place at Marquee in New York on Tuesday evening. Ice-T and Taylor Lautner were among the guests.
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“In New York they are used to parties,” says Michel Laprise. The guests’ costumes were quite extravagant. It was music from the 1980s and 1990s, because Heidi is 50 years old. It was really a great party. […] The 10 artists involved in Heidi’s costume all spread out throughout the room as the evening progressed. They were everywhere and ensured that this image lived on. Everyone came to talk to them.”