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R&B creator Janelle Monae is no stranger to breaking through in the fashion industry. This is especially true during Halloween, which debuts some shocking looks throughout the season.
The self-proclaimed Queen of Halloween’s most thorough look this spooky season is undoubtedly her ET costume, fully transforming into the iconic ’80s character. She debuted an extensive cosplay in an appearance on Jennifer Hudson’s showcompletely unrecognizable to the audience.
Special FX also helped the Grammy winner transform into his own kind of monster while filming in October Hollywood reporter cover, sharing: “I have always been fascinated by the iconic monsters of Hollywood cinema, so this idea has been in my mind for many years. I love Universal’s monster universe and characters like Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Frankenstein. I just think it would be interesting to see a depiction of a monster in a movie that doesn’t live in any particular binary and allows for all of it. Their energy flows freely.”
This isn’t the first time Monae has taken things to the next level. In a now-deleted Instagram video, Monae got into character by recreating Michael Jackson’s infamous Blanket balcony incident in Germany earlier this year.
In 2002, while on tour in Berlin, Jackson tried to please the crowd gathered outside the hotel by dangling his infant son Blanket, now Bigi Jackson, over the balcony. While Monae carried a robot dog instead of a real baby, the 38-year-old received a lot of backlash for being “insensitive” to the traumatic moment, although it’s hard to deny the eerily similar.
While it led her to delete the footage from Instagram, the backlash was ultimately minimal and didn’t stop Monae from pushing boundaries when it came to her passion for creative cosplay and fashion rebellion.
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