This design interprets Macbeth through ambition, power, and psychological corruption. Rigid silhouettes, exaggerated proportions, armour, ruffs, and elaborate ornamentation transform courtly splendour into something increasingly artificial and threatening.

Macbeth progresses from a celebrated soldier in blue-and-silver armour to a king enclosed in dark, ornamental forms, before descending into a fragmented red-and-black image of violence and paranoia. Lady Macbeth follows the opposite trajectory: she begins with a monumental, commanding silhouette shaped by roses, thorns, and blood-red details, but gradually loses this structure as her influence and psychological stability collapse.

The supporting characters are distinguished by their different relationships to authority, while the witches remain outside the courtly world, drawing from images of decay, fungi, moths, and organic forms.