Frightfully Fabulous: Janelle Monáe’s Most…
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Janelle Monáe is the definition of main character vitality. When it comes to turning heads, taking dangers, making people gag, and serving a look, Janelle is the blueprint. And more importantly, she does it her method.
Much like her music and performances, Janelle’s method to model has no bounds or guidelines. And there may be no better time to see her unforgettable combine of model, angle, and whimsy than Halloween.
She is THE HalloQueen, and she is aware of it.
Why Janelle Monáe Calls Halloween Her “Happy Space”
“Halloween is such a happy space for me,” Monáe told The Hollywood Reporter. “It has been since I was a kid. It opens a larger conversation of how do we become agents of joy? How do we become agents of happy? How do we become agents of imagination? I’m just doing what I want to see more of … I do this because my heart needs it.”
Janelle’s Halloween seems to be mirror that pondering. She has rocked full-on costumes, including E.T. in 2024 and the Cat in the Hat in 2025. She has also used prosthetic make-up to rework, and this 12 months, she’s going full creature.
Janelle Monáe Becomes A Creepy Couture Creature For Bacardi
In her most current collab with Bacardi, Janelle is a creepy couture creature. Back for a second 12 months, the rum model is the official spirits companion of her Wondaween Festival: Creature Carnival, which takes over a secret Los Angeles location on Oct. 29.
For the creature, Janelle topped a peachy pink shag wig with a black hat. Covering her face in a wrinkled, green-tinged prosthetic, she swapped one eye for a scorching pink swirl. She wore a ruffled white shirt with black-and-white striped suspenders and long strands of pearls blended with black beads. She even added prosthetic arms, down to the bloody knuckles.
In one of those prosthetic arms, she held her signature drink of the season, the Spookito. The Spookito is Bacardi’s Halloween twist on the basic mojito. .Here’s how to make one at home.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Bacardi Superior rum
1 oz lime juice
0.5 oz simple syrup
0.25 oz grenadine
8 to 10 mint leaves
Soda water, to top
How To Make It
Muddle the mint with the lime juice and simple syrup. Add the Bacardi and crushed ice. Stir gently, then top with soda water. Finish by drizzling the grenadine over the top, and garnish with a mint sprig.
Creature Carnival could also be her latest chapter, but Janelle has been building her Halloween legacy for years.
How We Know Janelle Monáe Is The Queen Of Halloween
Her receipts go back to childhood. Growing up in Kansas City, Janelle dressed as Chucky, masks and overalls included. She even slept in the masks, she told Dread Central. Her mother’s response: “I think something’s wrong with you, but I love you.”
These days, the planning begins years forward. She told People her E.T. costume was two years in the making. Designer and tailor Alex Navarro and stylist Alexandra Mandelkorn help convey her seems to be to life.
For Janelle, every costume is a full character, from morning to evening.
“When I get into costume, I transform,” Monáe told the Los Angeles Times. “Whether I’m a white rabbit or Diva Plavalaguna [from “The Fifth Element”], when I say I used to be these characters, I’m saying the whole day and evening that you interacted with me, I used to be those characters. And as a world-builder who has been very lucky to act and create music and construct worlds around those, I feel Wondaween Season permits all of the Janelles [inside me] to totally be realized.”
Janelle Monáe’s Most Unforgettable Halloween Looks
Swipe to see some of Janelle’s best Halloween transformations through the years.
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