Few people go as all out for Halloween than the Kardashian-Jenner family. Last night, Kim Kardashian debuted her family’s first costume of the season, and it was Tiger King-themed. Kardashian dressed as Carole Baskin, while Jonathan Cheban went as Baskin’s rival Joe Exotic. Kardashian’s four children North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm West were tigers.
How does an intricate group costume like that come together—and how much did it cost? Every piece is custom-made, in Kardashian’s case, and altogether, the costumes are worth $6,400. Kardashian tapped designer Alejandro Peraza’s Alejandro Collection to create the outfits. The design house detailed to ELLE.com what went into every piece.
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“Kim is always super involved in the looks we create for her,” the team said. “For Halloween, the devil is truly in the details. She likes to get as close as possible to the idea we are executing for her. If she has any doubts about whether something will work, we make multiple options she has choices.”
“For this Halloween, Kim wanted the kids matching in tiger onesies with custom-stuffed tails and ears,” they added. “Each outfit took around six hours to create in totality and a pattern was made for each of the kids’ sizes. Kim’s look went from research to completion in about 24 hours total, which was spread out over a four-day period: from making the perfect flower crown options to draping the blouse just right to achieve the ‘Carole Baskin’ Effect. The jeans also had to be perfection, down to the trim and fabric on the hem line.”
In the case of Cheban’s Joe Exotic look, “Jonathan’s fabric took forever and a day to source, followed by around a dozen broken needles being that it is an Italian beaded mesh. Tailoring to perfection and create a beautiful designer piece took two days,” the team said.
The team had a couple weeks to make all the costumes, and each look ended up taking a few days, they said. The outfits themselves have varying estimated values: Kardashian’s Carole Baskin outfit is worth $2,200; Cheban’s Joe Exotic look is $1,800; and the kids’ tiger costumes are worth about $600. At four tiger costumes, that’s $2,400 total.
Courtesy of Alejandro Collection
Courtesy of Alejandro Collection
Courtesy of Alejandro Collection
This process wasn’t months in the making; it came together fast. “Kim got her first options a week in advance, and the second options a handful of days before Halloween,” the team said.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic did change the way they did business for these costumes and with all their online orders. “COVID has definitely changed the way we work—we are more cautious about people we bring into our inner circle, however, our work load has more than doubled!” the team said. “Our online sales went through the roof and people are home and love to shop our collection. The most interesting thing was sourcing more fabric after it runs out, and having friends FaceTime from the fabric store, selecting the fabric shade just for one more yard for the sole purpose of meeting the deadline. Working with new materials that we haven’t worked before can also be an interesting experience.”
This isn’t the first time Alejandro Collection has designed Halloween costumes for the family, by the way. The team was behind Jenner’s first Halloween costume with Stormi: a cloud and lightning in 2018.
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