Overview

• The leather-and-metal costume featured black, red and grungy accessories, including puppet-head necklaces and matching boots.
• Bella Thiel adopted an even bolder red makeup palette to mirror her sister’s apocalyptic warrior aesthetic.
• Instagram comments ranged from calling the outfits “iconic” to denouncing them as a “Karneval” inappropriate for a metal festival.
• Drawing on her experience with online negativity, Thiel did not publicly engage with harsh critiques.
• Last year’s witch-and-wizard ensemble designed by Marina Hoermanseder foreshadowed this year’s increasing theatricality.