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Rodarte’s Black Swan Costume Designs Were Inspired by Mechanical Birds

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]

Rodarte’s Black Swan Costume Designs Were Inspired by Mechanical Birds