--- title: Barbie, Ken, Taylor, and Travis Take Over Halloween description: What this year's most popular Halloween costumes say about our current attitudes canonical: https://time.com/6328337/halloween-costume-barbie-ken-taylor-swift-travis-kelce/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-10-27T22:22:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:50:48.471Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Barbie, Ken, Taylor, and Travis Take Over Halloween og:description: What this year's most popular Halloween costumes say about our current attitudes og:url: https://time.com/6328337/halloween-costume-barbie-ken-taylor-swift-travis-kelce/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dc1261c6ca0e8ba/698a41c9d07533aad4e6e8aa/halloween-barbie-ken-taylor-swift-travis-kelce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: halloween-barbie-ken-taylor-swift-travis-kelce og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Barbie, Ken, Taylor, and Travis Take Over Halloween twitter:description: What this year's most popular Halloween costumes say about our current attitudes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dc1261c6ca0e8ba/698a41c9d07533aad4e6e8aa/halloween-barbie-ken-taylor-swift-travis-kelce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Hottest Costume This Halloween? 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Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Hari Nef, and Alexandra Shipp all play different versions of Barbie._  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 27, 2023 10:22 PM UTC  Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie; Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Barbie; Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Dale Robinette—Warner Bos./Everett Collection; Gotham/GC Images/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 27, 2023 10:22 PM UTC Weeks before Halloween, Hannah Montoya was busy crafting her first ever couples costume, collecting a blonde wig, [friendship bracelets](https://time.com/6307420/taylor-swift-eras-tour-money-economy/), and an NFL jersey emblazoned with the name and number of [Kansas City Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce](https://time.com/6317151/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-swifties-football/). Inspired by the [apparently blooming romance](https://time.com/6317898/travis-kelce-taylor-swift-relationship/) between Super Bowl champ Kelce and superstar Taylor Swift, Montoya’s all-time favorite singer, the 22-year-old content creator from North Carolina decided it was the right time to debut a costume with her partner. “They’re the perfect couple to idolize from both a girlfriend and boyfriend standpoint,” she tells TIME. “My boyfriend’s super into football and I’m super into Taylor Swift, so this was just the perfect combination for us.” Only one other high-profile pair is rivaling Taylor and Travis in costumes this spooky season: [Barbie and Ken](https://time.com/6294121/barbie-movie-popularity-impact/). Versions of each famous duo are expected to be seen all over the place this Halloween. According to insights from Semrush, ever since Swift and Kelce were rumored to be dating in July 2023, searches for “Taylor Swift Halloween Costume” grew by 1021.2% and searches for “Travis Kelce costume” grew by 9,400%. And per [Google’s “Frightgeist”](https://frightgeist.withgoogle.com/costumes) analysis of annual searches for Halloween costumes, Barbie was the overall top search for costumes nationally, while Barbie and Ken dominated searches for couples. Mattel tells TIME that Barbie is the number one costume searched for at Goodwill. On TikTok, searches for [“Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift Halloween costume”](https://www.tiktok.com/discover/travis-kelce-and-taylor-swift-halloween-costume) have garnered nearly 427 million views, while [“Barbie and Ken Halloween costume ideas”](https://www.tiktok.com/discover/ken-and-barbie-costume) has racked up over 241 million views, with hundreds of videos of users showing off their costumes or making tutorials on how to recreate the looks. **Read more:** [2023 Is One Big Costume Party](https://time.com/6323750/taylor-swift-beyonce-barbie-fashion-concert-movie/) Unsurprisingly so: _Barbie_ was a box office hit with a [ubiquitous marketing campaign](https://time.com/6294123/barbie-partnerships-crocs-burger-king/) and countless merchandise collaborations, and Swift’s Eras tour broke attendance and tickets sales records, while her high-profile romance with Kelce has only increased her momentum, most recently resulting in _Saturday Night Live_ cameos for the couple. But their popularity also points to a cultural fascination with the “all-American” couple, a concept whose most dominant interpretation is a specific reading of convention—that is, white, straight, and monogamous. “Barbie and Taylor Swift are emblematic symbols of a specific kind of American femininity," says sexologist and dating coach Myisha Battle. "Both \[couples\] are hyper representations of masculinity and femininity.” This surge in interest in dressing as both couples marks a fascinating response to shifting views on marriage and relationships, she says. A September 2023 [Pew Research](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/09/14/the-modern-american-family/) survey found that 71% of Americans think that a job or career they enjoy is important to have a fulfilling life, compared to the 23% who believe that a marriage will lead to a fulfilling life. The face of marriage is also changing; [Pew reports](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/09/14/the-modern-american-family/) that since the 1970s, the number of Americans in an interracial or interethnic marriage has risen from 4% to 16% and that since same-sex marriages have become legal nationally in 2015, the number of same sex marriages had increased by over 60%. **Read more:** [How Barbie Took Over the World](https://time.com/6294121/barbie-movie-popularity-impact/) “People might feel comforted by hearkening back to a time where whiteness and heteronormativity were the accepted standard,” says Battle. “What better way to to get to that end goal of an all-American nuclear family than to be a heterosexual couple? For people who are cisgender or heterosexual, this is a way to sort of reclaim that identity in a really public way. That’s scary and spooky—it’s appropriate for Halloween.” There's also the element of projected nostalgia, adds Darnell-Jamal Lisby, a fashion historian and ​​an assistant curator of fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art. “There’s a fantasy about that, which is why it’s not surprising people would emulate it with a costume,” he says. “My question is intention—someone like Taylor represents a reinforcement of a world that they may have once been attached to, a world that wasn’t as politically correct or that was as diverse.” For Jerome McLeod, a 31-year-old manager in New York, dressing up as Ken this Halloween is less of an embrace of what the doll has long represented and more of a subversion of it. McLeod, who’s planning on donning a blonde wig with an “I am Kenough” tie-dye sweatshirt for his look, decided to dress up as Ken after seeing the _Barbie_ movie this summer, where he says he was inspired by its “irony of embracing convention, while critiquing systems.” That—and he was eager to have a costume that would be easily identified. “Instant recognition—that’s all I really want,” he says. ## Transcript My Barbie needs more time. Okay. Not looking punk, I don't think I'm in love with what I've done. I think my farthest of hurts all expectations and I just I'm so proud. I don't want it. I don't want can Oh my God. Okay, now what is punk? I'm not a fashionista you guys but I think I know Punk. When I see it. I actually do. Love the look, I don't know if it's but I thought about it. So I would I would love like a quick 45 minutes with like I need a Lynn bread and then I can really show you what this rust can look like on a girl with blue hair. To me, no, offense to the Met Gala. This is what I Met Gala outfit. Looks like I chose a big helmet shoes. Are a bag. We're open at 7, the band with a little bit of crack out this one hops. Wow. I feel like she's, she's got like a contract. She can fly back and they want to just like it's like they were the mini dresses cuz they're not trying to do the gown dress code, but they left like the edges exposed. I thought about sunglasses but then it's like, you know, she's an up-and-coming independent film actress. So how are the Getty Image Photography is going to recognize her if she wears sunglasses? So, she took them off last second, Pirates. Understanding of this world is so nuanced. I have no recollection of playing with the pain but don't tell him that I love him. No, very handsy. So cool. Come on, Barbie. Oh my God. So hard to get her feet. How do we have? The dexterity is kids to do that? We had, we had nothing else to do. Is it a four-year because she facilitated the end of the writers strike. My Barbie is obviously a singer at this moment. She's hitting the high note. I am a Barbie girl. So mine has infiltrated either the government of North Korea or an alien invasion and their government. She's warned their outfits and she's worked herself like a Manchurian Candidate into the highest levels of leadership and taking them down from the inside because they took it from her, okay? It wasn't. And she lost the back of her pants and a fire, okay? So but you went straight from that to the time cover. Shoot. Yes. My Barbie wrote a book called women. It's about women, any idea you've ever had about women, any problem you've ever had with a woman, she she fixed all of it with her book and she's just signed a deal with Netflix for a film adaptations called woman. She's kind of the face of women everywhere, but she's wearing her sunglasses because she's like, who am I my email? And my lady is the first female president of the United States. And she wear policy so she's wearing a l movie. That's right. I definitely have worried about you be going up, Dale kind of turned into weird, Bobby off. I got played with a few times. What's cooking good-looking welcome, welcome to my house. Let me see, weird Bobby. We mean like a Bobby has been played with too hot and the real world and they hands up being a little messed up and maybe they got some Crayon on their face and scissors. Markers other stuff, you know, you missed your Barbie. I heard someone who looked like, whoever it was was amazing and I really don't like it when someone else does my hands or feet or maybe I was trying to do my earnings but yeah, the foot should I got all three of us like how many times but like the Chrissy Teigen sweet nothing like it was a screen. Grab of my feet in front of the shower and it was like I need to know everything about this. Like how many take? So she harness with Lola and we probably did? I don't know? Maybe eight takes. No, I didn't wasn't wearing a harness but I did hold on to like a ball when I got back to that. I was still steady holding, it would be like tomorrow. It probably is I'm at once again. Joker. Okay, she is a superhero. Her name is hot girl. She gets really hot. Literally it's baked potato Couture. She's burning evil. Evil know. She's burning that she's melting it down to liquid. Heat proof glass. We're going to see My superhero is. That's her name of the ability to inflict cramps on men. So she dress. Provocatively, the pimp then and then she's like texting. So he his superpower is to be invisible, which is why he's not wearing anything? Because when he goes invisible then you see the clothes walking around. So he has to be naked all the time with my boy, like to see a no, because it's attached to it goes invisible, might be out for the count. This is some sandwich girl. Okay, so her superpowers, you always have to give to someone who needs food, but the problem is, she also looks like a flasher when she goes up to someone and she's like a, you want something? I got something for you and they're like, they run away and she's like, oh, it's a sandwich here. Like we don't believe you and she's like, This is animal, she can turn into any type of animal giving cheetah, she's giving leopard. She's giving polar bear realness instead of like roaring. She does run. So she'll be like I'm impressed with the creativity. That's been put on display here and has been brought out of all of us. Grown people just the presence of the dolls and the clothes it really is an incredible thing. I needed me to it's a productive. 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