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What does it take to become a giant severed hand?
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It started in 2025, when Mike Marino, her longtime costume designer, was turning her into Medusa. She says the hand idea struck then, and he asked her to hold off. The hand was finished for 2026.
- 2025Medusa look; hand idea begins
- 2026Giant hand costume revealed
Asked why a hand, and her own left one, Klum said: "Sometimes the most random things that you see every day, all the time, can be the most interesting thing, if you twist it a little bit."
“Sometimes the most random things that you see every day, all the time, can be the most interesting thing, if you twist it a little bit.”
She has hosted this party for 25 years, and this one took hours to prepare.
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The reveal came at the Cathédrale restaurant inside the Moxy Hotel in Manhattan's East Village, New York: a giant, bloodied version of her own left hand.
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