So from that perspective, she’s nailing this look… I guess. 17. RIP Hannah Montana and her Dr. Martens phase. 18. This dress is just objectively ugly. Soz m8. 19. Confused by this skirt tbh. 20. Quite sure she was taking the piss with these pants. Michael Caulfield, photographer, Associated Press (1992-2001):“I will never forget that moment when she walked up thered carpet. I wasn’t sure if it was a political statement or she was promoting a movie . . . After she passed by, I don’t think there was a single photographer who talked about anything else.”

Normally, it would be hanging up, but it was in this plastic shopping bag like you would get at the supermarket.Iwas a little skeptical, because when you hold the dress up on its own, it’s just like a bunch of feathers. It was kind of hard to see exactly what this thing would look like, but I could see it was a head of a swan.While she was in Los Angeles, she posed for the cover of her upcoming album, “Vespertine,” in the same dress. She later told Interview magazine, “I don’t really know why I’m obsessed with swans,” but added that they were “very romantic, being monogamous . . . Right now, swans seem to sort of stand for a lot of things.” Yet two decades later, Björk’s sartorial flight of fancy no longer looks like a faux pas but a fashion masterpiece. Bjork wore Pejoski’s poofy pink organza pleated-lantern dress to Cannes and ended up winning the best actress prize. But the designer’s team did not know her plans for the swan dress. Björk later auctioned her Oscar dress for the charity Oxfam, but Pejoski still has a version, which in recent years has been exhibited at MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2014, Valentino designers Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri paid tribute to the swan dress in their spring couture collection.

Steele:“It’s one of the most famous dresses that was ever worn on the red carpet. [Around that time], actors had started being hyper careful . . . and somehow, [the red carpet] became about everyone being on-brand and on-message. There was much less of the kind of wild creativity that threatened to go off the deep end into total insane fabulousness . . . Cosgrave:“Designers had actually been vying to dress Björk that year [for the Oscars]. She was staying at the Chateau Marmont [in West Hollywood], and a lot of designers’ representatives . . . were sending clothes to her. One of the designer reps I interviewed for my book said that she encountered [an assistant] at the swimming pool wearing clothes that Björk had been sent.” Amsterdam:“Julia Roberts won Best Actress that year . . . and I just remember thinking, ‘Wow, Björk is actually getting more from these photographers than Julia!’ ” On the anniversary of the 2001 Oscars, insiders recall how the weird and wonderful dress came to be — complete with Björk dropping her own “eggs” on the red carpet: Surely. 21. In case it wasn’t clear, Hannah Montana would like to remind you that she is a STAR. 22. Those boots are too much.Bronwyn Cosgrave, fashion journalist and author of “Made for Each Other: Fashion and the Academy Awards”:“I was there during London Fashion Week, and [the swan] dress was a talking point. It was the showstopper. It closed the show, and Alek Wek wore it. So the dress had a life of its own before Björk came along. YESSS !! , eruption !!” she wrote as the volcano flared up just six miles from her home in Iceland. “We still got it !!! sense of relief when nature expresses herself !!” Steve Granitz, photographer, WireImage (2001-present):“People were just staring at her. I think they were kind of in awe. Everyone was frozen, almost like in slow motion.”

Joel Amsterdam, VP of publicity, Elektra Records (1990-2004):“Before the actual award show, we went to a rehearsal. Björk was downstairs . . . in the theater, and I was upstairs in the dressing room talking to Scott [Rodger], and I said, ‘By the way, what’s Björk going to wear?’ And he said, ‘Oh, it’s over there on the couch.’ Y tho? 13. The gal loved to layer. 14.Is an outfit without a belt really even an outfit? 15. No pattern is too aesthetically displeasing for our girl Hannah Montana to get around. 16. To be fair, clashing was HM’s ‘thing’. Cosgrave:“Björk had selected a number of [Pejoski’s] outfits and wore them while promoting ‘Dancer in the Dark’ [Lars Von Trier’s musical film, in which Björk starred]. She actually turned up at Cannes wearing one of his dresses, and it was even zanier than the swan dress, which was inspired by Old Hollywood — specifically when Marlene Dietrich dressed as [the Greek myth] Leda and the Swan for a 1930s costume party.” The social-media outburst — unexpected and weird, but also earnest, earthy and poetic — was quintessential Björk. After all, this is the artist best known to the general public for wearing a swan to the Oscars. Wow does that belt even have a purpose? 4. Look past that sequined top + rhinestone hoodie combo and take a look at them jeans. 5.This looks like something you could buy in Supré circa 2006. 6. What a belt!Scott Rodger, Bjork’s manager (1996-2010):“I can’t verify that . . . [but] like every nominee, you get approached by every possible designer for clothing and shoes — as well as jewelry designers. That was never Björk’s style. She would always be the one making the approaches to people she admired and respected. Hahahahaha. Sorry. 23. When highlighters are ultimate outfit inspo. 24. One last frou frou skirt ok. 25. And let’s wrap this up with Hannah channelling Rainbow Fish. Amsterdam:“The morning of the Oscars, I had gotten a call from someone from her camp saying, ‘Björk wants to augment her outfit with these oversized ostrich eggs. And she wants to [drop] them as she’s going down the red carpet to leave like a trail.’ So I tasked my then-girlfriend — my future wife — to [help me] find these ostrich eggs . . . but someone in Björk’s camp found them before we did, downtown, somewhere in Chinatown.” Sherry Ring, senior vice president of publicity, Elektra Records (1988-2004):“I remember Björk coming into my office with the dress . . . I loved it. Would I love it for anyone else but Björk? No. But . . . I can’t ever imagine her showing up with typical designer gowns.” But most importantly another sparkly skinny scarf making an appearance amongst this intensecolour coordination. 8. The tie!!!! 9. OK, actually this look over here is low-key pretty damn cute. 10. Awww yeah that sequin vest. Get it girl. 11. When you’ve gotta dress fancy but cbf to take off yourcomfy clothes. 12. And so began the era of the fingerless glove.

Christophe Bop, embroidery designer, Marjan Pejoski (2001):“Marjan was very big in the London fashion scene at the time, and he was good friends with Björk. In 2001, [she] was working on her ‘Vespertine’ album, and the album was like a winter tale, very atmospheric. So when she saw the swan dress, she loved it because the swan is like a winter animal and it fit the spirit she was in perfectly.”Björkarrived at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium on Oscar night and stepped onto the red carpet. At various points, she coyly lifted her chiffon skirt and dropped an egg onto the ground — she later told British GQ she “laid” as many as six.