Cometh the witching hour with Wonder Woman and Wednesday

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The Mexican Day of the Dead was also a hit with Lithuania’s Inesa Lastauskaite
The Mexican Day of the Dead was also a hit with Lithuania’s Inesa Lastauskaite

From The Donald to The Dude, the influences are far and wide: from the fantasy worlds of the Addams Family to Mexican Day of the Dead and the south London punk-rock scene.
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They could laugh about it then, but the true horror of Halloween came late for Mark Walker (UK) and Sabine Hviid (Denmark)

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Emiliye’s punk origins (right) are explained by her father being English and coming from the same area of London as Captain Sensible

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With her hands on the prize for best costume was Luisa Kyca (Canada/Germany) as Wednesday Addams. It’s that Thing she does

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Wonder Woman (left) tried passing herself off as Dinorah Curiel (Mexico/US), a student from Aarhus, but nobody’s going to be fooled by that identity – least of all Aaron McKinnon (US)

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Wesley Spyke (US) is The Dude. And of course that’s a white Russian

 

 




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