Second skin: The costumes of Nicole Tran Ba Vang in Brice Dellsperger's re-enactment video Body Double (X).

This article examines the costumes designed by French-Vietnamese conceptual artist Nicole Tran Ba Vang for the 2000 re-enactment video *Body Double (X)*, directed by Brice Dellsperger and starring queer performance artist Jean-Luc Verna. *Body Double (X)* is a queer, experimental video that re-enacts Andrzej Żuławski's 1975 film *L'important c'est d'aimer* by meticulously replicating its locations, blocking, and cinematography while employing a single actor to play all roles. Tran Ba Vang's costumes, faithful to the original 1970s designs yet incorporating drag elements such as Verna's constant brassiere, serve as a stabilizing narrative anchor within the video's fragmented and subversive space. The article situates this work within a long European tradition of performance in appropriated spaces and highlights the political and historical significance of cross-dressing, linking Verna's bra to the medieval practice of charivari, where cross-dress symbolized social disorder and protest. Together, the collaboration explores themes of identity, performance, and the destabilizing power of costume in queer and re-enactment art.