Although on the day of halloween It is celebrated on October 31, the terrifying costume parties that usually accompany it have already proliferated this weekend. And several celebrities have taken advantage of the occasion to share the models they have worn, such as Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, who have shown on their networks their choice this year: literary-inspired costumes based on Alice and the Mad Hatter, two characters from Alice in Wonderland, novel written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll. “She is visually one of the most recognizable literary heroines for audiences around the world,” he explained to S Fashion Kate Bailey, curator of the exhibition Alice: Curioser and Curioser, that the Victoria & Albert Museum in London dedicated in 2021 to the character of that adventurous girl who visits a strange fantasy world where nothing is as it seems. AND Selena Gomez has proven that this is the case: she only needed a blue dress, blonde hair and a black bow to evoke the literary character and show the result to her 423 million followers on instagram.
The dress worn by the singer, actress, producer and beauty businesswoman is from the Los Angeles brand. Rodartefounded in 2005 by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy. Her aesthetic, which is often labeled ‘American Gothic’, is always evocative, theatrical and dreamlike, and actresses like Kirsten Dunst They are faithful to their designs. His last collection was dedicated to ‘gothic fairies’, and that could have come from the elongated headdress of the Mad Hatter – the character obsessed with drinking tea in the novel – worn by the musician, music producer and writer of a cookbook Benny Blanco, who shared on his Instagram stories some fun moments of the two at the Halloween party they attended. The dress that Selena Gomez wore in the photo shoot that she shared online was, however, from another season: specifically, from the brand’s fall-winter 2022 collection, and it was a vaporous model in hand-pleated tulle with transparencies and a silk corset.
Behind Gomez’s styling is Erin Walshher stylist, who she shares with another actress who usually impresses with her looks, Anne Hathaway. Gomez and Blanco (who has produced songs for Katy Perry and Britney Spears) made their relationship public in December 2023, and since then they have attended several public events together, one of the last on October 24, the day it was held in Los Angeles Rare Beauty’s second event in support of mental health, the Rare Impact Fund Benefit Supporting Youth Mental Health. Rare Beauty is the cosmetics brand that Gomez created in 2019. Since its inception, the firm has differentiated itself by focusing on the issue of mental health; Gomez herself has spoken about her problems in this regard and in her documentary My Mind & Me, 2022, shared that he suffered a psychotic episode and has bipolar disorder. “I see vulnerability as a great strength, I think there is a fear of being judged that can hold us back, especially when we open ourselves to share what we are going through,” he explained in a interview to S Fashion about the importance it has had for her to make those experiences known.
Gomez, 32, has been exposed to media scrutiny since her childhood: at the age of 13 she starred in the successful Disney series Wizards of Waverly Place and maintained a media relationship with the singer justin bieber. Now it is a billionaire businesswoman with a fortune that amounts to 1.3 billion dollars, as announced by Bloomberg last September, as well as co-star and producer of the popular series Only murders in the building (Disney +) and, in addition, she was awarded at the last Cannes festival for her role in Emila Perez (the award for best actress went to the three protagonists, Gomez, Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón), musical film by Jacques Audiard which is now heading into the Oscar race. A whole Wonderland for Selena.
