As to be expected, Rodarte sought inspiration in some bizarre places while designing the ballet costumes for Black Swan. “We imagined him like a mechanical bird — his breast is even padded out like a bird,” Laura Mulleavy said of the costume for Prince Siegfried, which features distressed velvet with a floral embroidered cheesecloth overlay. “It looks like a spider web’s taken over him … He’s like a demon.” Meanwhile, Odette’s costume involves a flat, pancake-shaped tutu made of white angora wool, which looks like “tree branches growing [on the skirt],” she described. Which is not very sexy, but definitely not boring either. [WWD]