The swan dress is the iconic garment Björk wore to the 2001 Academy Awards — a dress shaped like a swan, mocked in its moment and later canonised as a masterpiece of red-carpet risk. Jenna Ortega counts it among her childhood Halloween costumes, as she shared on Late Night with Seth Meyers in October 2026. Recreating fashion history for trick-or-treating places the young Ortega in a lineage of costume maximalists for whom Halloween is a serious artistic occasion.
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