Halloween champion Heidi Klum dressed as a giant, multi-person peacock this year

You’ve seen the rest, now it’s time to see the best: Yes, it’s officially very late on Halloween night—too late for you to come up with a new costume, too late for most children to be out, and probably too late for anyone to be just arriving at a party now—but that means it’s finally time for perennial Halloween champion Heidi Klum to show off whatever wackadoo costume she has come up with for her annual Halloween party.

You’ll recall that she was some kind of horrible woman-sized worm last year, in 2021 (when the actual party was canceled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic) she shared a whole ridiculous horror movie thing on her Instagram, and in 2019 her and husband Tom Kaulitz went as unnervingly accurate versions of Shrek and Fiona, so the bar was pretty high for Klum to do something similarly absurd this year. Would she go as the Trinity device? Would she go as the giant Barbie from the Barbie trailers? How about a fully-functioning version of the Las Vegas Sphere, with a costume made of dozens of curved LED screens or whatever?

In the end, she didn’t go as any of those things, she went as a peacock. A pretty normal thing, at least in comparison to last year’s worm, but there’s a twist: The peacock costume actually involved a whole team of background performers to form the elaborate plume behind her, plus one serving as her long bird legs. The effect is… actually kind of horrifying, and that’s without even taking into account the molded bird head and beak.

Now how is this all supposed to work logistically? Are these people going to follow her around all night? What happens if one of them goes to the bathroom and someone comes along to take a photo? Her feathers will be incomplete! Also, is there something to be said about the fact that last year she was a worm and this year she’s a bird? Will she be a cat next year? Then a dog? Then whatever eats dogs? (Alligator?)