#Swan Dress

[thefashionfold]

Björk wearing swan dress by Marjan Pejoski the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001

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Image is from the BBC.

[hannahleah]

Shalom Harlow as a swan by Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello Numéro #108 (November 2009)

[lizabizaaaaaaa]

Appreciation post for this dress because omg 🤍🦢

[soulmaking]

mood board for swans—ethereal, enigmatic, exquisite

[dienanadie]

very vespertine, very domestika 🦢

[bidotorg]

Join us in wishing a very happy birthday to the iconic Björk! Known for her ethereal voice, avant-garde visuals, and daring originality, she has been a shining beacon for queer representation in the music industry. As a proud bisexual woman, Björk has used her platform to celebrate diversity and inspire countless fans across the globe. Here's to another year of her transcendent artistry. 🎂🌈🎉

(1) The Swan Dress worn by Björk at the 73rd Academy Awards on 2001, as well as on the cover of her album "Vespertine"

(2) The Pom-Pom Headdress on her 2007-8 tour for "Volta"

(3) Look for her "Biophilia" album tour (2013)

(4) Björk's Alexander McQueen 'Bell' dress, 2004, worn for the 'Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)' video from the 'Medulla' album

(5) The dress she worn while performing “Oceania” at the 2004 Olympics Opening Ceremony, made of over 600 feet of material.

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[ambrose123four]

FASHION THINGS TO DRAW #12: Björk’s Swan Dress

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Swan 🦢Fashion

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[thetrippy]

Gibbjörk

[feelingstoo]

Another momentous red carpet moment. She has been ridiculed for it then, and you still see parodies of this dress now. I think it was genius and also so, so absolutely *her*.

[hannahleah]

By Txema Yeste, Vogue

[brieonic]

It's all Björk ever wanted.

[dienanadie]

having my swan dress moment! 🦢

[manmetaphysical]

6: The Sound of Sedna

In speaking of Björk, it’s not possible to ignore the dwarf planet Sedna, the Inuit goddess who created seals, dolphins and whales from her cut off fingers as she sank into the ocean. Sedna seems a perfect fit for Björk and she has this Oceanic flavour woven into the fabric of her work. Sedna’s orbit is long and distant yet contains the mysteries of deep water. She is in her words ‘turned on by nature’. She embodies this sea-loving archetype so well in her highly organic imagery and wearable art. She is not one for geometric shapes and squares- the only ‘cube’ she ever referenced was in her first band, the Sugar Cubes. She prefers sinuous, wavy lines inspired by spiralling floral and organic growth- and her idiosyncratic song structure and development captures this innate sense of nature too. It is deeply instinctive and all the better for lacking any intellectual overlay that would deaden the energy.

She has no problem appearing in designer creations and wearable art as a sea anenome, a caterpillar, or a seed pod bursting in all directions. This is often about embodying themes of evolution, biophilia, and transformations of all kinds.  Scorpio is after all about morphing and shape shifting. If she appeared next as mythical bird, the Phoenix, don’t be surprised. She has already been the swan as the infamous white swan dress proved. This was on the cover of Vespertine and on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. Apparently, it was David Bowie who encouraged her to appear in the swan dress at the awards as he ‘always wanted to see her as a bird laying eggs’. 

Björk has Sedna at 29° of Aries which could suggest the angry warrior activist making a last stand for justice. She even calls her latest project ‘a call to arms.’ Alan Clay who has researched the dwarf planets calls Sedna the higher octave of asteroid Ceres, the goddess of the grain. Sedna has now retrogaded back to at 0° of Gemini, so it aligns more or less with Björk’s North-South Node axis.  She has an affinity with cold Arctic places and often sings with a female choir of Inuit throat singers from Greenland. Sednna opposes the 0° of Sagittairus position squares 0° of Virgo and Pisces. Sedna will eventually come close to her North Node at 4° of Gemini. That won’t be exact until 2029 which could be a challenging climax for her ‘nature’ activism as it becomes more strident.

But she has already set up a foundation called AEGIS whch an organistion against open net pen fish farming in Iceland. The industry which spews poisons and plastics into the ocean. She wants to protect the Wild Salmon from this fish-farmed variety.  Her next musical release due on November 29th Björk and Rosalia, remixed by Oral and Olof Dreijer from the Knife, is waiving all royalites in order to pay towards AEGIS and saving the environment. One of her statements articulates this Pan-Psychist approach.

She never really understood loneliness she said because as far as she was concerned she was ‘in an orgy with the sky and the ocean.’ The song Isobel is about a girl who rejects the urban environment and retreates into the forest to collect moths. It’s the ‘epic’ side of Björk. There is a bit of a drama queen in there too along with the experimentation. She’s a ‘complete’ a universal artist, not just a pop singer. She just works through the medium of Pop to be able to reach more people.

Prince, when he was alive, said ‘In a perfect world, Bjōrk would be more popular than Madonna’. A better reference point though might be Kate Bush, a Leo, who has been a shining influence on her work. There’s a song just called ‘Moon’ on Biophilia which says ‘the best way to start anew is to fail miserably….. then realign the whole’.  This could be the perfect advice from a triple Scorpio whose feelings are occluded, yet also expressed in music, but who also finds it easy to shed skins and transform.

It is interesting that her Moon is in the 12th House -and has always claimed to be a genuine introvert. If that means she’s in touch with shifting feelings that is certainly true. But the Moon also rules her own last decan of Scorpio. Her latest sound installation in Paris ‘Nature Manifesto’ talks of ‘the web of life’ and the ghosts of animal sounds ‘remind us of improving our primordial mindfulness’.

Björk is a fascinating strange creature and even when annoying, always an artist to watch closely as she evolves along with the planet and keeps us on our toes about the way music should be or how a female artist should act. Next year, in 2025, she’ll reach the age of 60 and she’s not done yet as a creative force.

Proteus Astrology (21/11/2024)