Hasbany made the hat as part of her graduating collection at London’s Central Saint Martins; the piece of millinery won her first prize for the L’Oréal Young Talent Award there. The floppy topper is made from hand-crocheted mohair sourced from eBay and was, in part, inspired by a folk legend about a UFO crashing into Texas, Hasbany’s home state. “I wanted to imagine how the residents might morph into aliens after helping to hide the crash,” she tells Vogue. “As an allegory for the way anyone who is different is cast out or buried in the South.”
Björk is very famously enshrined in fashion pop culture for wearing that swan dress to the Oscars in 2001 (designed by Marjan Pejoski), a level of risk-taking we wish were more common on staid awards season red carpets. But she’s no stranger to wearing outré creations from more familiar luxury names. For her 2024 Vogue Scandinavia cover, for instance, she wore a Galliano-designed Margiela Artisanal corset and dress (complete with merkin!) and in recent years has been spotted in Jonathan Anderson-designed Loewe, Noir Kei Ninomiya, Zomer, Iris van Herpen, Moncler, and Robert Wun, to name just a few. And, of course, the singer had a long-standing collaborative relationship with Alexander McQueen, most famously immortalized on the cover of her album Homogenic.
And while that exact dress may not currently be available to purchase online, you can channel a bit of Björk’s DJ set style yourself, with this jacket or skirt. Stay crazy, Björk—we’re depending on it.
