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‘Runway’ Ready Halloween Costumes
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Ms. LAURA BENNETT (Runner up, Project Runway): I’m fine, how are you?
Ms. BENNETT: Well, I have to say that this year, I’m taking the year off. Normally, Halloween is the biggest holiday in our family, but because I’m so pregnant this year, I’m really just working on the Halloween canada goose outlet parka party at canadian goose jacket my children’s school.
SIEGEL: Well, this gives you a chance, then, either to recall great costume ideas from goose outlet canada Halloweens past or simply, in the abstract here, to imagine the ideal Halloween costume for this year that you can think canada goose outlet black friday someone else might make.
Ms. BENNETT: Halloween costumes, for me personally, have to be scary. I mean, if you didn’t have another opportunity during the year, like Mardi canada goose outlet store uk Gras, to wear sort of the funny costumes, I would understand, but in our family it’s usually a scary costume.
SIEGEL: But how scary can canada goose coats a, you know, three and a half foot tall child really be?
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SIEGEL: Is that something that’s actually on the market?
Ms. Canada Goose Online BENNETT: Oh yeah. You can get cat eyes or you can make your eyes, you buy canada goose jacket know, the colored part of your eye, the iris, red. It’s really weird. And people will, like, talk to you for a few minutes, Canada Goose sale and then they’ll say I’m canada goose outlet sale sorry, I just can’t talk to you.
SIEGEL: I bet they do say that.
Ms. BENNETT: And then they walk away, yeah. It freaks everyone out, large and small. One involved a parent who dresses all in blue holding a blue sheet, and then the child essentially just wears all black and dances around listening to an iPod. It’s a takeoff on an Apple ad, in other words. They sort of act it’s a living tableau of the Apple ad. Have you ever been able to come with an idea, at least, which obviously your children would reject, of some ensemble idea for Halloween?
Ms. BENNETT: Like a really clever sort of in the moment ensemble idea.
Ms. BENNETT: Gosh no, I don’t know, because I tend like I said, I tend to stick with the scary costumes. But I canada goose outlet jackets do like the idea of the iPod tableau. That’s a good one.
SIEGEL: Does what’s scary change a great deal with fashion, do canada goose outlet online uk you think? Are there uk canada goose outlet things that are just too tacky to be scary in the 21st Century, so you don’t do them, or is it the good old fashioned ghosts and goblins and spider webs and bats?
Ms. BENNETT: You know, look. There’s nothing like a good, old classic black sweatshirt and sweatpants with a white skeleton canada goose store painted on it, as far as I’m concerned. I love to see that at Halloween.
SIEGEL: The little black suit with the skeleton on it.
Ms. BENNETT: Yeah. And I saw my children were watching a rerun of canada goose outlet uk The Little Rascals, and they put all the little rascals in their little black suit with the skeleton painted on them dancing in front of a black sheet. So similar to the iPod sort of tableau. You know, how cute is that to see all these little skeletons just moving about in front of the black fabric. I just love it.
SIEGEL: Well, Laura Bennett, thank you very much for talking with us about Halloween.
Ms. BENNETT: All right. Thank you.
SIEGEL: That is Laura Bennett, who was the runner up on Project Runway. She’s the mother of five and, shortly, six, and she was talking to us from her home in New York City.
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