You know you did your celebrity-inspired Halloween costumes right when that celebrity actually sees it and comments on your Instagram post.
And that’s exactly what happened with a group of friends, who pulled off not only the costumes, but a photo inspired by Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do music video.
The photo was posted on Monday by architect and graphic designer Geli Luna with the caption: “A Taylor-made Halloween with my fave girls and gurls.”
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All the “Old Taylors” were in attendance including You Belong With Me Taylor, MTV Video Music Awards Taylor, Red Taylor, and of course, Swift’s most recent persona, Reputation Taylor.
Taylor Swift — yes her verified account — called the photo “AMAZING.”
And although the Old Taylor may be “dead” now, it looks like Swift can’t help but go back to old habits like taking time to interact with fans on social media.
Elise Mendoza, who dressed up as the Swan Lake ballerina from Swift’s Shake It Off music video told Coconuts Manila that they were all hoping the singer would notice their cosplay.
“Our group chat kind of exploded for a while when Geli [Luna] let us know that she commented,” she said.
Mendoza said it took about a month to get all their costumes together. “Some of us worked on our costumes little by little over the span of a few days or weeks. Some of us crammed them a day or night before.”
This is not the first time Mendoza and her friends went viral for their creative costumes.
For Halloween last year, they went as the characters from the South Korean film Train to Busan and prompted similar compliments from netizens.
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According to Mendoza, she and her friends have been cosplaying since their last year as college students at the University of the Philippines (UP).
“The year a lot of us were graduating from UP arki (architecture) — we got to do creative shots and some really went wild on the costumes, that finally got unleashed,” she said.
“After that, a few of our get-togethers (birthdays, despedidas (going away party), Christmas parties) became costume parties, and some of us started going to comic cons together in costumes as well.”
They started celebrating Halloween together in 2014 but only decided to wear a group costume last year.
“In Halloween 2016, ‘Train Tutuban’ happened and we realized that we could do group costumes because we are all kinds of extra,” she said.
We say being extra totally suits them — and we can’t wait to see what they come up with next year.
