When it comes to dressing up for trick-or-treating, you can use the news for inspiration to create a headline Halloween!
Shredding Banksy artwork Black 16-by-20-inch frame, $5.99 and white poster board, $1.99, both at 5th Ave Dollar Discount, 2 W. 46th St.; 1-inch-thick white elastic (1 yard), $1.50, and X-Acto knife, $4.99, both at Daytona Trim, 251 W. 39th St.; “Girl With Balloon” poster, $10 at Walmart.com (or print from the Web)Brian Zak/NY Post; Getty Images; Hair & Makeup Natalia Bizinha for Amika & MAC @ Jump
Paint the town shred in this self-destructing costume. Early this month, right after auctioning for $1.4 million at Sotheby’s in London, a spray-painted canvas work by secretive street artist Banksy fell through a shredder unknowingly built into its gilded frame — reducing it to scraps. “Going, going, gone,” the artist later posted on Instagram, alongside an image showing the open-mouthed faces of horrified onlookers as the artwork disintegrated. Don’t let friends call this costume trash: The stunt could reportedly add a minimum 50 percent increase to the original work’s value. Perhaps that’s why the winning bidder will go through with the pricey purchase. Some looks really are shabby-chic.
Goat yoga
Yoga mat, $15, and goat stuffed animal toy, $16, both at Amazon.com
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Vanessa Pellegrino teaches goat yoga at the Gilberstville Farmhouse in South New Berlin, NY.
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This can be your “goat”-to costume for Halloween — and it will also be the closest you’ll get to goat yoga in NYC. The trendy, not to mention adorable, workout that blended small goats with downward dogs was supposed to come to Brooklyn for an April-to-June pop-up, only to be canceled by the city’s Department of Health just two days before beginning. Why? Direct contact with certain animals is prohibited — and goats aren’t allowed to stay in any city building. Baahh, humbug! Well, at least you can legally strike a warrior pose with the help of a just-as-cute stuffed-animal goat.
Salt bae Round sunglasses, $16 at Urban Outfitters, 526 Sixth Ave.; Plastic serving plate, $2, steak dog toy, $1.99, and salt, $1.99, all at 5th Ave Dollar Discount, 2 W. 46th St.Brian Zak/NY Post; Tamara Beckwith/NY Post); Hair & Makeup Natalia Bizinha for Amika & MAC @ Jump
Make no mis-steak: Halloween costumes don’t have to be sweet. Look no further than Salt Bae, the Turkish social-media sensation who shot to fame in 2017 when a video showed him sensually salting a huge steak. The salty chef (real name: Nusret Gökçe) opened his Midtown steakhouse, Nusr-Et, in January to great anticipation. But the restaurant quickly faced a storm of bad reviews from food critics (high prices for leathery textures) and health-code violations (as it turns out, you shouldn’t salt someone else’s steak with your bare hands). The food may need work, but the look — a tight white shirt, slicked-back hair and sunglasses — is effortless. As for Salt Bae’s gold watch, don’t wear your version near food: Apparently, that, too, is a health-code violation.
Cynthia Nixon’s bagel sandwich Cinnamon raisin bagel: GoFloats Inflatable Pool Float, $18 at Amazon.com; Tan felt fabric (3 yards), $35 at Fabric Garden, 249 W. 39th St.; Printed raisin cutouts; Straps: 1-inch-thick white elastic (1 yard), $1.50 at Daytona Trim, 251 W. 39th St.; Lox and cream cheese: White felt fabric (2 yards), $16, and orange polyester lining (1 yard), $10, both at Lester’s Fabrics, 17 Ralph Ave, BrooklynBrian Zak/NY Post; Hair & Makeup Natalia Bizinha for Amika & MAC @ Jump
It was the sandwich that launched a thousand New York nightmares: lox, red onions, capers, tomatoes and plain cream cheese — on (gasp!) a cinnamon raisin bagel. When Cynthia Nixon was caught on-camera ordering this monstrosity in September during her gubernatorial campaign, she called it “sweet and salty.” New Yorkers — maybe the same ones who recoiled when Mayor Bill de Blasio ate pizza with a knife and fork — called it repulsive. “Now, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this is the worst Nixon scandal in the history of politics,” said Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show.” We agree, which is why you should wear it — not eat it. Oh, and Nixon lost the race. Blame that bagel!
Tesla in space 2 red display boards, $11 (each), and duct tape in red, yellow and silver, $5 (each), all at Staples, 442 Fifth Ave.; Astronaut helmet, $9.99 at Party City, 38 W. 14th St.; Astronaut costume, $31 at Amazon.comBrian Zak/NY Post; SpaceX via Getty Images; Hair & Makeup Natalia Bizinha for Amika & MAC @ Jump
Tesla founder Elon Musk got high in 2018 — and no, not only while smoking weed during a podcast with Joe Rogan in September. The eccentric tech billionaire, who faced the wrath of the Securities and Exchange Commission that same month after tweeting an idea to take Tesla private, sent his own cherry-red Tesla Roadster on an unmanned rocket to Mars in February, making it the first car to leave Earth. (The goal, also lofty, is to have his car orbit the sun and, well, float around in space for a billion years.) The vehicle, now about 123 million miles from the Red Planet, is being helmed by a spacesuit-clad dummy named Starman, inspired by the David Bowie song. The Tesla is expected to come close to Mars without actually crashing into it. One thing’s for sure: This costume really is out of this world.
