This Halloween I dressed up in my anime finest and, along with Chris Gore, set out on a quest to find the best costume and the spookiest atmosphere. Our destinations: Club Ruin‘s Grimm Fairytale Ball and a house party – which would yield the best outfits? Mine was Major Kusanagi from Japanese manga and animation, Ghost in the Shell, while Chris and charming date channeled Roman Polanski and his underage love interest. To my chagrin, Chris didn’t heed my suggestion of wearing polyester pants.
After two night of scrupulous research the results are mixed. Ruin, a nightclub held at the lavish Monte Cristo in LA’s Koreatown, invited its guests to dress in fantasy gear, while the party was all about the geek chic.
Club Ruin offered Absinthe alongside usual bar offerings, the house party’s kitchen counter was a veritable bottle maze.
Ruin’s dance floor was filled with wafts of fog, the pool at the house party overflowed with blood-red smoke.
After wracking my booze-and-and-corn-addled brain I’m feeling rather stumped, so I invite you to browse the galleries and pick your favorite costumes. Here are my top five:
[...] For Halloween, Chris Gore and I went on a costume-hunting quest, the documentation of which can be seen on China Shop, here. [...]