It made perfect sense to dress my dog up as Chanel Oberlin from Scream Queens for the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade. After all, she is a bitch.
The inspiration:
Here's the very DIY costume.
As I loaded on her Kappa Kappa Tau pearls, I started to get the feeling the Lucy was getting a little too much into character.
She kept trying to walk away from me, as though she had better things to do than attend a dog parade.
Like Chanel, she immediately began practicing for her Good Morning America internship with Diane Sawyer.
Lucy has the "I'm queen bee" stare down on the runway.
When we met a pizza rat, Lucy promptly slapped it in the face. Not because he's a rat, but because he dragged in a slice of high-carb pizza. I believe the real Chanel would have done the same.
Here's Lucy (as Chanel) christening a new Chanel #4.
I was very impressed. She was really channelling the essence of Chanel. Either that or she was just super fucking pissed that I put a wig and dress on her and made her walk around.
She kept shaking her wig off, so honestly, maybe the "murderous glint" in her eye wasn't her leaning into character. It was just that she wanted to murder me.
So if anyone finds me dead tonight, here's who did it:
