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Hallowe’en. The favourite holiday of the year for those of us with a weakness for fancy dress and costume parties. Over the years in the celebrity world, supermodel Heidi Klum has become known for her legendary Hallowe’en parties and extravagant costumes, from the ‘Forbidden Fruit’ in 2006 (an elaborate apple ensemble complete with evil serpent) to Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in 2012. In 2013, her party was scheduled to be held at Marquee in New York City. All eyes were on the entrance to see what kind of imaginative affair Klum would concoct this time.
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Jermyn, D., Holmes, S. (2015). Introduction: A Timely Intervention — Unravelling the Gender/Age/Celebrity Matrix. In: Women, Celebrity and Cultures of Ageing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137495129_1
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