{"id":635802,"date":"2026-08-13T22:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635802\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:44:18","slug":"the-story-behind-bjorks-robert-wun-balloon-look-and-her-solar-eclipse-rave-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635802\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s Robert Wun Balloon Look\u2014and Her Solar Eclipse Rave in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amongst Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s fervent fans, we spotted Alexander McQueen\u2019s creative director Se\u00e1n McGirr, Loewe co-designer Jack McCollough (in town for his birthday), jeweler Marco Panconesi, and journalist Ronan Farrow taking in this sensory overload of the highest order: fashion, music, art and technology all competing for attention beneath a rapidly disappearing sun.<\/p>\n

While the solar phenomenon may have been a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, Bj\u00f6rk has been consistently turning out phenomenal looks for four decades now, notes Pari Stave, curator of the Bj\u00f6rk exhibition currently occupying the National Gallery of Iceland<\/a> until September. \u201cTransforming the body is part of her creative exploration through worldbuilding,\u201d she told Vogue ahead of the rave.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Santiago Felipe<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, that worldbuilding was (quite literally) bigger than ever. Bj\u00f6rk performed in a customized version of Robert Wun\u2019s amorphous balloon couture creation, adapted from the Hong Kong-born, London-based designer\u2019s fall 2026 collection, and shown in Paris just weeks earlier. Wun says Bj\u00f6rk and her team zeroed in on the look immediately. \u201cThey weren\u2019t even considering anything else,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt was just: It\u2019s going to have to be this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another quality made the outfit unusually appropriate for an eclipse: its impermanence. \u201cThe beautiful aspect of it is that it\u2019s not meant to last,\u201d Wun says. And in a country where the tempestuous weather has little interest in accommodating fashion, perfection was never the objective. Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s camp, Wun recalls, embraced the possibility that balloons might burst mid-set: \u201cEven if some of them pop, it\u2019s part of the performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amongst Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s fervent fans, we spotted Alexander McQueen\u2019s creative director Se\u00e1n McGirr, Loewe co-designer Jack McCollough (in town…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,596,19,17,337,803,806],"class_list":["post-635802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-textabovecenterfullbleed","tag-web"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117090627159796043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}