Halsey Closed Out Her Summer Tour With a Fantasy-Filled Stage Wardrobe
This weekend, Halsey will close out the last few dates of her For My Last Trick tour. Since May, the pop star has been busy living life on the road—performing songs off her 2024 album, The Great Impersonator. “This has been the most exciting and challenging tour I have ever done,” says Halsey. “I’ve just been so overwhelmingly grateful every single night. I didn’t know if I was ever going to get the chance to tour again. Being healthy, and feeling strong in my body every night, and playing songs from the past 10 years of my career, is such a surreal experience.”
Halsey is no stranger to a big, blowout tour. But this time around, the performer wanted to take a more narrative and theatrical approach with her show. Drawing inspiration from Alice in Wonderland, she plays the part of a pop star who falls down a rabbit hole—and enters a series of new worlds, playing her bops along the way for fans. “I got to work with so many incredible creatives from the Broadway world to make these practical sets (and practical tricks) come to life,” she says. “It was so refreshing to build a tour that relied so heavily on physical sets and performance art, in a space that is growing more and more digitally rendered every day. Something about it felt so human to me—and I really needed that.”
Impressively, Halsey played an entirely different setlist every night of her tour. “I think by the end we had performed almost 70 different songs,” says Halsey. “I got to surprise each crowd with an old hit, or a new deep cut. I even played two new unreleased songs, ‘Carry the Weight’ and ‘Lucid,’ that I wrote while I was on the tour. It was just so electric and exciting every single night.”
For stage looks, meanwhile, Halsey matched the flamboyant spirit of the show with costumes that were just as spotlight-worthy. The star worked with stylist Lyn Alyson to craft a series of different moods and characters throughout the show. The designs they came up with were surreal and entirely fantasy-filled. “I wanted to incorporate classic silhouettes from iconic designers, but also bring some new talent to the stage as well,” says Halsey.
