When it comes to fancy dress I’ve always thought that you either loved it or hated it and that was you for life, you were either a fancy dress person or not and, rather like the football team you support, there was no switching sides down the line.

Perhaps surprisingly given my love of capes and ponchos I’ve never really been a fan of fancy dress. However, chatting with my friend Alice over a glass of wine earlier this week about her Halloween party fancy dress outfit dilemma (the theme is celebrities who died too young, Alice is keen not to to be one of many Marilyns or Amys), I started to feel a little envious that, because I’m going on holiday to Iceland next Thursday, I’m missing out on my one big opportunity to dress up this year. They don’t really do Halloween in Iceland, I just checked, however half of the population believe in elves so swings and roundabouts I guess.

Time was your only female Halloween fancy dress option in this country was a witch, or perhaps a cat, but since the trend for anything goes fancy dress came over from the States dressing up on 31 October has been taken to a whole new level. Obviously my first task when I was planning this feature was to trawl the internet for pictures of celebrities in Halloween fancy dress. I like to see a well-executed fancy dress couple and the world of celebrity does not disappoint on this front. After extensive research my three favourites are 1) Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber as Slash and Axl Rose from Guns N’ Roses 2) Dermot O’Leary and wife Dee Kopanng as Karl Lagerfeld and and Karl’s cat Choupette 3) Kate Moss and Jamie Hince as Morticia and Gomez Adams.

If I was going to a Halloween fancy dress party with an open theme this year and I couldn’t find someone to be Slash to my Axl I would totally go as Nancy from The Craft (second from the left in the picture above if you’re not aware of this nineties classic teen movie). I love Nancy’s Clueless-gone-very-bad style and it wouldn’t be too hard, or expensive – both important considerations – to recreate.

Right, I’m off to watch The Craft in preparation for next year. How do you feel about fancy dress? Are you dressing up this year? What’s the best fancy dress theme you’ve ever heard? And your favourite ever fancy dress outfit? Any ideas for Alice? And any suggestions for a lipstick to recreate Nancy’s look?! Do share in the comments section below.