♥ trick or treat.

the other day, my girlfriends and i were discussing

our plans for halloween and our costumes

and i realized

– to my horror–

that i do not have any idea

what i want to dress up as this year!

luckily, the designers from fashion week in paris

have provided a bevy of BOO.tiful looks

that will serve as spooky yet stylish inspiration

for this wickedly wonderful holiday.

vivienne westwood's latest spring collection

of flaming hair mavens and smoldering hot looks

give new meaning to the words, "burning sensation."

these lizard/bird.like looks from the spring 2010 collection of

gareth pugh are at once fascinating and frightening.

i wouldn't want to run into these creatures in a dark cave somewhere!

this junya wantanbe spring collection is

chock full of looks that

could only be described as

elvira meets erykah badu.

if you're short on time and creativity,

maybe just go out into your backyard, gather up

some branches and leaves and fasten them to your head

à la bernhard wilhelm's spring 2010 show.

to achieve the style of yohji yamamoto's ghouls

(i mean.. girls)

all you must do is spray your hair gray, tease it up,

white your face out, and apply cobalt blue eye makeup

to your lids using a heavy hand.

these looks from the tao spring collection

literally make one's hair stand on end.

i hear that egg whites, glue or gelatin may be used in the hair to

create the spiked ponytail's mohawk effect!

if you should decide to take a page out of viktor & rolf's book

simply take a buzz saw to your favorite old prom gowns to create a

look that is both butchered and beautiful.

the spring collection of comme de garçons shows us what

it sounds like when clowns cry.

hideous in a way that should only be appropriate on halloween.

the designer who takes the cake for spookiest

most jaw dropping looks for halloween is

the inimitable alexander mcqueen

whose fall 2009 collection is like a funhouse mirror explosion of

oversized houndstooth, wax lips, bird cages and umbrella hats that

will have you wishing it could be halloween every day!

(i cannot wait to see what he has in store for spring 2010 this tuesday!,

which may be incidentally be what i have in store for halloween this season...)