Björk Wears Mugler Collection She Inspired on Its Paris Debut Day While DJing in Poland

Key facts

• Björk performed a DJ set in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, on the same day Mugler debuted its latest collection in Paris.
• She wore a purple butterfly-print top, black leather corseted skirt, and a fringed feather headpiece from Manfred Thierry Mugler’s spring 1997 haute couture collection, Les Insectes.
• The collection, Naturalia X, is the third and final part of Miguel Castro Freitas’s A Trilogy of Glorified Clichés.
• The Mugler show featured 32 screens with Casper Sejersen’s remixed imagery from Björk’s songs “Possibly Maybe” and “Venus as a Boy.”
• Italian composer Teho Teardo created the soundtrack, reimagining an existing Björk track after she gave permission.
• Björk’s touring exhibition, Björk: Ancestress, Sorrowful Soil & Nerve Bloom (remix), opened in Bielsko-Biała with three audiovisual installations across three locations.
• Castro Freitas cited Björk’s raw emotion, radical freedom, and untamed spirit as inspirations, and noted a kinship with Mugler’s founder.
• Björk has inspired designers including Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan, Iris van Herpen, Marjan Pejoski, Bernhard Willhelm, Olivier Rousteing, Jonathan Anderson, and Robert Wun.