There are many ways to accurately describe Björk. A pioneering singer and songwriter. An otherworldly forest nymph. The pride of Iceland. But perhaps most accurate of all? A fashion icon.
The musician proved yet again her prowess for making even the most outlandish of outfits seem suddenly downright wearable yesterday in Venice, where she DJed at the Biennale, clad in look 80 from the fall 2026 Bottega Veneta collection by Louise Trotter. It was sent down the runway as one of the show’s theatrical closing ensembles, a bubblegum pink, ankle-length dress comprising of countless recycled fiberglass needles, which wriggled and rippled with each step. It was one of those outfits that seemed made less for real life than for photoshoots or as collector’s items, to one day make its way into a museum exhibition about how fashion can be elevated to the status of art. (Cough cough.)
And yet, here comes along Björk, not just cutting a stylish figure in the ensemble on a red carpet, but basically raving in it. (Which rings true with what she told the presenter and podcaster Zane Lowe last year: “I’m going to be techno-raving until I’m 90. Sorry guys, breaking news.”) The musician wore it with a golden mask by her regular collaborator James Merry, and topped it off with a large tumescent hat made by designer Myah Hasbany.
Hasbany made the hat as part of her graduating collection at London’s Central Saint Martins; the piece of millinery won her first prize for the L’Oréal Young Talent Award there. The floppy topper is made from hand-crocheted mohair sourced from eBay and was, in part, inspired by a folk legend about a UFO crashing into Texas, Hasbany’s home state. “I wanted to imagine how the residents might morph into aliens after helping to hide the crash,” she tells Vogue. “As an allegory for the way anyone who is different is cast out or buried in the South.”
Björk is very famously enshrined in fashion pop culture for wearing that swan dress to the Oscars in 2001 (designed by Marjan Pejoski), a level of risk-taking we wish were more common on staid awards season red carpets. But she’s no stranger to wearing outré creations from more familiar luxury names. For her 2024 Vogue Scandinavia cover, for instance, she wore a Galliano-designed Margiela Artisanal corset and dress (complete with merkin!) and in recent years has been spotted in Jonathan Anderson-designed Loewe, Noir Kei Ninomiya, Zomer, Iris van Herpen, Moncler, and Robert Wun, to name just a few. And, of course, the singer had a long-standing collaborative relationship with Alexander McQueen, most famously immortalized on the cover of her album Homogenic.
And while her Venice Biennale Bottega dress may not currently be available to purchase online, you can channel a bit of Björk’s DJ set style yourself, with this jacket or skirt. Stay crazy, Björk—we’re depending on it.
