Rosalía dresses up in Björk’s swan dress for Halloween

Kendall Jenner has hosted of one of the most exclusive Halloween parties in Hollywood. The celebration, which took place at the Château Marmont hotel in Los Angeles, attracted many well-known faces, who were all dressed up in costume. Among the guests was Spanish singer Rosalía, who donned a replica of the famous swan dress that Björk wore at the 2001 Oscars. That was the year when the Icelandic singer was nominated for Best Original Song for I’ve Seen It All, which was featured in the soundtrack to the film Dancer in the Dark.

The original dress that Björk wore in 2001 is a creation by Macedonian designer Marjan Pejoski, with whom the singer had previously collaborated. After the outfit was widely criticized — Björk appeared on the Oscars worst dressed lists — Pejoski told Vogue magazine that many people were not able to understand his art. “Not everybody understands my style,” he said. “But I don’t care about bad publicity. If you are an artist you don’t expect everyone to love what you do. And anyway, I love that there has been such an issue.” Björk wore the iconic dress again for the cover of her album Vespertine.

With the swan outfit, Rosalía has paid tribute to Björk, an artist she cites as one of her biggest musical influences. Indeed, the two singers recently announced a collaboration. In October, Björk shared on social media that they were working on a duet called Oral. All proceeds from the track will go to covering the legal cost of fighting industrial fish farms in Iceland.

“People at the fjord Seyðisfjörður have stood up and protested against fish farming starting there. We would like to donate sales of the song to help with their legal fees, and hopefully it can be an exemplary case for others,” Björk shared. “Iceland has the biggest untouched nature in Europe and still today it has its sheep roaming free in the mountains in the summers, its fish has swum free in our lakes, rivers and fjords, so when Icelandic and Norwegian businessmen started buying fish farms in the majority of our fjords, it was a big shock and rose up as the main topic this summer. We don’t understand how they had been able to do this for a decade with almost no regulations stopping them.”

The track, however, will not be about the fight against fish farming. “It’s a love song. It’s not about fish,” said Björk.

Oral was scheduled to be released in October, but fans of Rosalía and Björk are still eagerly waiting to hear the duet.

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