Celebrity Halloween Costumes 2022: So Much Money, So Little Imagination

I guess when you’ve previously dressed up as an ape, an inside out body, a glittery purple robot, and a gruesome, mid-autopsy alien, there’s nowhere else to draw inspiration from except from inside the Earth.

We always appreciate a self-aware celeb. This is much better than her Sexy Jessie from Toy Story costume—yet, I’m still underwhelmed.

This is the most amount of fabric Fox has ever been photographed in. Very spooky!

Faison reprised his role as Murray Duval from Clueless while his 7-year-old daughter dressed up as Dionne Davenport. We’re totally buggin’!

The “Chief Twit” appears to be wearing a $7,500 costume, according to Just Jared, that’s called “The Devil’s Champion” from Abracadabra NYC. I really fucking hate it here.

If you keep scrolling you’ll see Kylie’s costumes from Friday and Saturday night. But on Monday, she posted a bunch of Instagrams as a...alien warrior savior thing? The most informative caption simply said, “PLANET KYLIE.” I don’t know what’s happening.

It’s no Lizzo, but Cardi B dusting her Grammy as Marge Simpson is very “Baby how you feelin’? Feeling good as hell!”

I believe that Travis Barker has made Kourtney Kardashian infinitely more interesting so this is cute. Plus this is way more of a wedding dress than the dress Kourntey actually wore when she married Barker for a third time in Italy in May. Happy for them!

Two hot famous people dressing as two other hot famous people? Groundbreaking. To attempt to be even more edgy, MGK also fake (maybe?) snorted cocaine off Fox’s breast as Lee famously did with Pam. Sounds like they had fun, at least.

In a world without TikTok, Addison Rae would probably be a junior in college right now, and I do believe she could have thrown together this costume on a college student’s budget. Nine “rah, rah-ah-ah-ah”s out of 10.

Is this imaginative? No. Is it creative? No. Is it Florence Pugh being silly, practical, and economical? Yes. I’m a fan.

Sure, Kim looks just like Jennifer Lawrence’s character in X-Men. What I want to know is: What her costume would look like if she didn’t have the resources to (I’m guessing) hire the franchise’s actual makeup artist and costume director to recreate this look for her?

Lizzo is perfect and everything she does is perfect. No mean notes.

The bonus Jonas—who never got to be in the band—and his girlfriend, Anna Olson, had the best Halloween costume of the weekend, in my opinion: 2009 Joe Jonas and Taylor Swift, purity rings included. Incredible.

Over-the-top, intricate, expensive, elaborate etc. etc. A lot of blue bodysuits happening this year.

Rande, Kaia, Presley, and Cindy coordinated their night out but not their costumes. Kaia also dressed up as Neo from The Matrix in 2018, so I guess she really fucking loves that movie!

Unclear if Kylie Jenner is celebrating Halloween or soft-launching a new grey-scale lip kit. Either way, it was clearly very important to her to build out a dungeon in her basement so she could take these pictures.

Like any self-respecting, “self-made” billionaire, Jenner couldn’t do just one costume: She was Frankenstein’s bride on Friday, Elvira on Saturday, seemingly nothing on Sunday, and on Monday posted an Instagram of her in a red leather leotard with the caption “brb went to fight aliens in space.” I really don’t think Kylie left her compound once this weekend.

This goes against my rule about being creative and imaginative for Halloween, but every rule has an exception. It’s simple and hilarious. Great work.

I originally thought these Barbie boxes were handmade with cardboard, paint, and creativity but they weren’t. Clearly purchased. Still, they look great, and points for being topical.

Are Camille Kostek and Margot Robbie friends? Or maybe Rob Gronkowski and Ryan Gosling are? Someone definitely got the actual costumes from the Barbie set. I had to do a double take.

This was brilliant, especially if you’ve seen Ariana’s spot-on impression of Jennifer Coolidge. Zero notes.

These costumes were probably like $500 to rent, but points for nostalgia and execution.

One of The Try Guys tried really hard this Halloween. But Eugene’s had a stressful few months, so whatever makes him happy.

Have the celebs always been setting up these insane photoshoots? I don’t remember such elaborate productions populating my social media feeds in years past.

Of course Kendall Jenner would dress up as sexy Jessie from Toy Story.

This was an attempt to mock Eilish fans’ recent meltdown of the couple’s 11-year age gap. Always good to be self-aware, I guess.

I love the idea of Paris dressing up as a character that battles a bunch of evil forces—especially with all the advocacy work she’s been doing to help close and reform “youth treatment centers,” like Utah’s Provo Canyon School. But this just kind of looks like a bad dance recital costume. In this case, Paris maybe could have maybe spent more money.

Ok, this feels very random, but I do appreciate the weird specificity of being inspired by Laetitia Casta’s look from a decades-old haute couture show. I mean, it’s not that creative to just be hot, but this at least feels like she ran to Michaels craft store—even though she probably paid someone six figures to figure it out for her.

Again, was there some giant memo that went out to all the celebs that they have to figure out a background if they want to post their costume on Instagram? I also think this might be edited, which is cheating.

I truly do not know what they’re supposed to be. They’ve already told us they drank each other’s blood—is this supposed to be shocking? This seems like something they’d wear to run to CVS for gum and band-aids.