Martha Stewartis having a big month.
And lets not forget its also the month of the biggest Stewart holiday: Halloween.
Vogue: What are some must-haves for a sophisticated grownup Halloween party?
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I just put little plastic cockroaches in everybodys soup.
What are some other other surprises and pranks?
For adults, always have some special treats.
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you’ve got the option to do a candy bag for themits not just for kids.
Theyll get a big kick out of it.
No, I dont think so.
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I mean, Halloween has become a fun holiday for children and adults alike.
I just like Halloween a lot.
When and why do you think Halloween had a comeback for adults?
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Well, since Bette Midler has had her Halloween party every year.
For many years, she had it at the Waldorf Astoria.
You know, it was serious.
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But it was a fundraiser too, for the New York Restoration Project.
I am not able to go this year, but Ive gone almost every year for the longest time.
Nobody scoffs at it.
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Nobody turns it down.
Everybody wants to go.
How do you decorate for Halloween?
Stewart as a Fairy GrandMartha, 2013.
We decorate both inside and outside.
I usually give children an assortment of candiesquite a few candies inin a bag and a little cash too.
Do trick-or-treaters come to your house?
Stewart as Roy Lichtenstein’s comic book women, 2017.
Thats what they say.
But Im never home on Halloween.
I have a go at be out and about.
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What are some of your favorite Halloween memories?
I dont know what theyre eating to get the cans, but Im not going to ask.
Do you have a say in what your grandchildren dress up as each year?
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There were hundreds of them.
She wore this big long cape with a trailing train that was about 14 feet.
Do you know what shell be dressing up as this year?
Jude is going to beoh she told me yesterday.
Is it Pippi Longstocking?
Oh, thats who it isshes so excited.
Do you know what you are going to be?
I can be Queen Elizabeth.
I do have to get my hair done like that, though.
That took a long time to do my hair.
We like to be creative with our costumes, and we love to make them homemadelike the peacock costume.
Stewart as a Fairy GrandMartha, 2013.
Stewart as Roy Lichtenstein’s comic book women, 2017.
Do you always dress up?
Ive been dressing up since I was a little girl.
I have pictures of myself pretty much every year.
And then all the costumes that Ive done for the magazinethey’re incredible costumes.
Theyre so beautiful and very well done.
What goes into your decision-making for your Halloween costumes for the magazine?
Well, it was Queen Elizabeth because the Queen died last year, you know?
So it was an appropriate costume, and I had never been a queen, so that was good.
But it dependsmaybe something newsy or newsworthy or just something that I had thought about.
I had black horses, so I was an equestrian for one year, and that was very fun.
you’re able to get ideas from paintings.
you’re free to get ideas from current events.
it’s possible for you to get ideas from something youve always dreamed about.
Oh, the bloody nurse.
I loved the bloody nurseI won the prize at my friend Allison Sarofims Halloween party for that costume.
But this Friday, Im getting dressed up as Audrey Hepburn!
Which has nothing really to do with Halloween.
Whatdoesit have to do with?
Well, what makes a great Halloween party is just creativity.
Call it for the witching hour, ask people to come in costumes, make it fun.
Make a haunted house at your house.
you’ve got the option to go as crazy as you want.
A little silly nothing party is not Halloween to meit has to be kind of special.
Always have a Halloween drink.
Ive made apple cider bourbon sours, which are very Halloweeny.
Things that look like blood or are good.
There are so many ideas in our magazine, too.
And what are Halloween party hosting no-nos?
The thing not to do?
A little jack lantern on the tablethats not much of a Halloween gesture.
I think you have to sort of go all out.
