Nicole Richie releases Paris Hilton’s Halloween comeback

Simpler times.

Nicole Richie posted a Christmas snapshot of the old Halloween celebrated at her elementary school with Paris Hilton featuring the best kids dressed in matching fairy costumes.

“Happy Halloween” she simply wrote an entry.

Hilton quickly commented on Richie’s Instagram: “🥰 🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♀️ Sana saa! I love you Bill😍 ”repeating battle cry invented by two friends which could often be heard in episodes of their previous reality show, “The Simple Life.”

The 41-year-old hotel heiress re-shared the photo in her Instagram stories by annotating the photo with fairy-tale emoticons.

The dynamic duo of friends attended the elite Buckley School in Los Angeles together, starting as preschoolers in 1986 before each was eventually transferred elsewhere by the middle school.

Commentators on the post by 41-year-old Richie and other sources indicate that the portrait of a young man dressed in a pixie suit is from one of their Buckley-era vintages.

While the duo stayed close enough to start their reality series, their friendship broke up in 2005 for reasons that reportedly – though never confirmed – have to do with the Hilton’s sex tape.

However, the attention drawn to the informal black-and-white frame would suggest that the symbolism of Nicole and Paris’ friendship, crystallized in the couple’s image as innocent kids in fairytale costumes, resounds as always.

“Iconic,” Nicole’s sister Sofia Richie said in the comments, and the photographer Vijat Mohindra, actor Harry Hill and musician Clinton Cave expressed the same among many other fans and admirers.

As it was enthusiastically emphasized, “their friendship is so bloody cult.”