In The Little Mermaid According to costume designer Colleen Atwood, every merpeople accessory “had to be from the sea. For King Triton, we were trying to figure out how to make his crown look like a crown but not like it was a crown from above the sea. I saw these really giant shark teeth in a magazine, and I was like ‘Oh my god, we should make his crown out of shark teeth’.” ” The Little Mermaid “