"Abel and the [record label] XO creative director La Mar Taylor have developed a very clear visual aesthetic across all that they produce, and they had a strong sense of the look of the tour at the outset," Devlin told Dezeen. "We considered that the arc of the show could be compared to a flight path: preparation, lift off, cruise, mid-flight complication, crash landing, come down, then relaunch." Es Devlin's folding star destroyer looms over The Weeknd's world tour.