Much of the last week of culture news has been dominated by Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, where the singer appears to candidly document the end of her marriage to David Harbour in excruciating detail. (See: breaking the rules of their open marriage; a Duane Reade bag full of “sex toys, butt plugs, lube” unearthed in a shared apartment.) A lot of people have been transfixed, including, I guess, Amelia Dimoldenberg, who found a way to go as the couple’s divorce drama for Halloween.
The Chicken Shop Date host showed up to Julio Torres’s annual Halloween party in a cheapo state trooper costume with a haphazardly drawn-on goatee. She posed for the camera wearing wired headphones connected to her phone, which was playing Allen’s “Pussy Palace” — the song about the aforementioned Duane Reade bag discovery — on Spotify. Do you get it? She’s dressed as Harbour’s Stranger Things character and listening to Allen’s new album about all of his alleged affairs! Finally someone’s having fun.
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This costume rocks because it was clearly pulled together within the past week and doesn’t make a ton of sense if you ask a follow-up question. Is she dressed up as David Harbour or as Hawkins, Indiana, police chief Jim Hopper? Why would either of those people be listening to a song about Harbour’s alleged West Village pied à-ffair, in which the singer calls her ex-husband a “sex addict”? Why would he be wearing chunky gold earrings? None of that really matters, because the costume is goofy, we understand it immediately, and Dimoldenberg is clearly having a laugh.
More dumb celebrity Halloween costumes, please. It’s not really impressive when a rich person hires an entire team to execute a perfect Instagram photo shoot. What is actually surprising is something as silly (complimentary) and spontaneous as Dimoldenberg’s thrown-together look. Celebrities: There’s still time to pull together a “Kelsey Grammar and his eighth baby” couples costume. (One of you is Frasier and one of you is a baby, duh.)
