5 HOTTEST FASHION ICON HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

Put aside your “sexy witch” get-up this Halloween and channel a fashion icon. Herewith, our picks and tips to throwing together a quickie costume worthy of a freaky fashionista.
Coco Chanel
Style yourself a short curly bob, wear a black and white skirt suit, and pile on loads of pearls.

Karl Lagerfeld
Spray your hair stark white then pull it all back in a low ponytail. Throw on a black suit with a white button-up shirt and skinny tie. Accessorize with fingerless gloves (you can cut your own from a black pair), sunglasses and rings just along the top half of your digits.

Rachel Zoe
Pull on your tightest pair of SPANX (you know how thin she is), give yourself a long, blonde wavy wig, super-sized shades and wear layers (don't forget the fur vests, that is a staple). Stack cuffs on both wrists and call it a day. Taylor & Brad sold separately.

Lady Gaga
Put on a platinum blonde wig and top it with the weirdest headpiece you can find. Don a bodysuit with tights (here’s where you recycle “sexy witch”), big round John Lennon-like sunglasses. If you’re feeling particularly ghoulish, splash some fake blood on yourself to mimic her spooky VMA performance.

Grace Coddington and Anna Wintour
Grab a friend and go as the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of Vogue. For Grace, frizz-out your hair, white-out your brows, wear loose dark clothing with clunky leather sandals and top-off with a red lip. For Anna, it’s a bobbed wig with bangs, conservative floral shift dress worn under a fur coat and oversized shades.

(Source: © 2009 DAILY DOSE MEDIA INC.)

KARL WHO?

Karl Lagerfield is no stranger to self-deprecating humor. After making a cameo on the runway with his face printed on a canvas tote, Lagerfield made another canvas bag famous after being caught by the papaprazzi with it. The notorious “Karl Who?” canvas tote was designed by Parisian designer, NACO, whose pieces retain a very strong pop vibe. The simple painted print of “Karl Who?” translates a whimsical sense of humor that is only so funny because it is so rhetorical. We may not be famous enough to make a canvas tote with our names on it covetable, but we can all enjoy the one available at colette for now.
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THE HEALTHY SUPERMODEL

Cindy Crawford, one of the pioneers of the term “supermodel”, has admitted that with her celebrated curvy figure, she’d have virtually no chance of making it big as a model in the fashion industry today.

The former covergirl is the latest fashion figure to express concern over "size zero" models.
Earlier this month, Germany's most popular women's magazine stopped using professional models completely, saying it was fed up with having to digitally erase their protruding bones.

However, Karl Lagerfeld, the fashion designer, has accused critics of thin models of being "fat mummies who sit with bags of potato chips".

Ralph Lauren has twice recently been found to have altered photographs of models to make their waists smaller. In once case, the model's waist ended up smaller than her head.
Miss Crawford said changing perceptions in the industry would have stopped her making it.
She was one of the highest-paid models in the 80s and 90s, and her trademark beauty spot above her lip got her booked for some of the most prestigious advertising campaigns in the world.
But she believes the fashion industry would have no room for her today.

“I would not have become a supermodel in 2009,” Crawford, 43, told German magazine Bunte.
“I look too healthy.”

The industry is not looking for “a body like mine, with big breasts, normal thighs and toned upper arms”, she added. The mom-of-two said she was happy with her physique, but revealed that she does occasionally worry about ageing and the changes it brings about – like wrinkles and bulges.

“I like being in my 40s so much,” she said.
“[It's about] being at peace with yourself, knowing about your strengths beyond being pretty.”

 (Source: AP)