Browse through all of the Ratatouille character costumes and cosplay guides. Released by Pixar in 2007 and directed by Brad Bird, the film follows Remy, a rat with a taste for fine cooking, who secretly teams up with the hapless kitchen boy Alfredo Linguini at a Paris restaurant — and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Whether you want a Linguini Halloween costume, a Colette Tatou chef look, or the sharper turns of Chef Skinner and the critic Anton Ego, every guide below turns the character into a kit you can actually buy. Start with Linguini or Colette Tatou, then pair the look with our Pixar and curly hair guides.
Linguini is the clumsy garbage boy who becomes Gusteau’s unlikely chef, and his is the easiest Ratatouille build because it is almost all ordinary kitchen clothing. Start with a white bistro apron worn over baggy chef pants, then add the two things that make the look unmistakable: the frizzy orange curly wig and the little mouse toy perched on your head or shoulder. Bright red sneakers finish it all off. Keep everything slightly rumpled — Linguini never looks tidy.
Colette is the kitchen’s toughest chef and the most complete uniform in the film: a crisp white chef coat over houndstooth chef pants, tied with a white bistro apron. The details sell her — the short black bob wig, burgundy knee-high socks and simple black loafers. Keep the coat pressed and the apron straight; Colette is the one character who always looks like she means business, whether she is on the line or off duty — and pairs neatly with Linguini for a two-person costume.
Ratatouille cosplay is almost all ordinary kitchen clothing, so it is one of the easiest Pixar builds to pull off. Start with a white chef coat and chef pants as your base, add a bistro apron, then finish with the details that name the character: an orange curly wig for Linguini, a short black bob for Colette, a tall toque for Skinner, or rimless glasses and a scarf for Anton Ego. A toy mouse perched in your hat or on your shoulder is the prop that sells it instantly. Our Pixar and hat guides cover the individual pieces, and all costume titles is the full index of franchises.
Everything people ask before building a Ratatouille costume — what Linguini and Colette actually wear, how to pull a Paris kitchen look together, what it costs, and how it works as a Halloween party costume.
Linguini wears a white bistro apron and baggy chef pants over a plain shirt, with red sneakers and his distinctive curly orange hair. The little mouse toy on the shoulder or in the hat is the detail that makes it unmistakably Ratatouille, and almost everything in the kit is ordinary clothing you can buy or may already own.
Colette wears a white chef coat with houndstooth chef pants and a white bistro apron, finished with a short black bob wig and burgundy knee-high socks. She is the most complete head-to-toe chef look in the film, so she is the strongest pick if you want a full uniform rather than an apron over everyday clothes.
Linguini and Colette Tatou read most clearly in a crowd: Linguini from the orange hair and bistro apron, Colette from the full white chef uniform. Chef Skinner’s tall toque and Anton Ego’s dark scarf and rimless glasses are the picks if you want something more distinctive than a chef.
Yes. Linguini and Colette are the natural pair, and a group can add Chef Skinner, the critic Anton Ego and even a Remy plush riding on a shoulder. The whole cast is built from kitchen clothing, so a party can split into chefs and critics without repeating a single look.
No. A white chef coat, chef pants and a bistro apron cover both characters, and the pieces are inexpensive online. The only item worth buying properly is Skinner’s tall chef’s hat, because the toque is what makes him read as the head chef.
Linguini’s hair is the character’s strongest signature, so use a short curly orange wig rather than colouring your own hair. Style it loose and a little unruly, and if you are doing a group, the same wig is an easy way to make a second Linguini from a plain white chef coat and apron.
A toy mouse sitting in your chef’s hat or on your shoulder does more for a Ratatouille costume than any other prop, and a wooden spoon or a prop ratatouille dish helps too. Anton Ego needs his round rimless glasses and a notebook; Skinner needs the tall toque.
Budget around $40–90 if you already own plain trousers and shoes, because a chef coat, an apron and a wig are the main spends — or $90–150 starting from nothing. Anton Ego is usually the cheapest, since a navy blazer, trousers and glasses are everyday items, while a full white chef uniform costs a little more.
It is one of the easiest family-friendly options around, since the characters wear kitchen clothing rather than armour or prosthetics. Colours carry the recognition — the white chef coat, Linguini’s orange hair, Skinner’s toque — which makes it a strong pick for conventions, parties and group photos.
Ratatouille is a 2007 computer-animated comedy from Pixar, written and directed by Brad Bird and produced by Brad Lewis. Set in Paris, it follows Remy, a rat with an unusually refined palate, who dreams of becoming a chef and secretly guides the clumsy kitchen worker Alfredo Linguini at the late Auguste Gusteau’s restaurant. Around them are Colette Tatou, the kitchen’s only female chef; Skinner, the diminutive head chef guarding Gusteau’s legacy; and Anton Ego, the feared restaurant critic whose final review decides the restaurant’s fate. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature. Browse every costume title for more ideas.
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