Collections of John Richmond, Alexander McQueen and Paul Smith - fans of stamps should be grateful to the musician. "I learned about the fashion from the performances of David Bowie", - once admitted Richmond. Paul Smith's super-accurate costumes would have been impossible without the "Berlin period" in David's life. A genius, McQueen came up with his cosmic girls under the impression of the images of Stardust-Bowie.
But all in order . Only an innate sense of style could turn David Jones, a blond guy with eyes of different colors, into an object of worship. The first step was a chilling nickname - a bowie knife, an 18-inch hunting knife. Step two: lipstick, which until then did not enjoy rock'n'roll. Step three: direct contacts with the cosmos, which are sure not only David's fans, but also fashionable critics.
The cosmic sense of style in the case of the founder of the style - David Bowie means the same as the congenital. It seems that the very feeling chose David from many "mods", fighter dudes, dressed in rags from garbage boxes on Carnaby Street. Velvet suits, Indian dress-shirts and Moroccan silk caftans become beloved at the time of work in the theatrical company of Lindsay Kemp. Later, in scenic guises, mask of mimes and dresses of "children-flowers", fire strands and African tights, bells of Buddhism and military China are mixed.
Along with the texts of the first albums, the mods repeat David's multicolored hairstyles, high boots with lacing and "oxford" bags from the fashion of the 30s. The era of glam makes its amendments to the bowie wardrobe - neon, lurex and plastic. In the brilliance of gold and colored smoke, a supernova is born. The newcomer-Ziggy Stardust is a vivid embodiment of Davy-da Bowie. A fantastic mixture of strangeness and sexuality, honesty and detachment, audacity and power.
Despite all the sensationalism and popularity, the image of "Ziggy Star Dust" began with random things. A sweater bought on a flea market with a shoulder down. Pants of the first wife, with which David was the same size. Medieval velor dresses, bottle-green and cream-blue, from the cellar of Dave Clark's store, the designer with Savile Row. Luxurious tights, which critics of the time called "a pointer to the door to the common toilet." Today, every repetition in the fashion of androgyny is impossible without turquoise boa, plastic Ray-Ban and industrial prints in the style of Ziggy.
Speeches-antics of Stardust, the star embodiment of a musician, is still enthusiastically quoted by Vogue. The cover with the zipper picture on the face of Kate Moss looks like a recognition of love to the young founder of the style - David Bowie. Stylists pay tribute to a variety of images that the musician changes along with makeup and costumes. The otherworldly Ziggy, a gentle romantic in white, a wild pirate with a bandage, wise Aladdin, an Aryan in a steel suit, a spider-man, a sailor in a bathrobe ... At the same time, Bowie remains a star, and every incarnation cuts into memory with music and - each once a new - glossy picture.
He imitates the mods of both sexes, several decades it is called a sex symbol. "Style - only the external design of existing phenomena," - are the words of the genius of change. The image of the Fragrant White Duke, a gentleman in a classic hat, a borsalino or a handsome man in tennis shorts on the arm with his wife, the top model of the Immanliks of the founder of style, David Bowie, can hardly be called impromptu. Rather, it's a game of genius.
David Bowie films, writes oil, plays Broadway, laughs on the red carpet, steps with a luxury suitcase to the express ... His music again captivates, his images inspire a new way. Not casually editor-in-chief Melody Maker somehow noted: "David Bowie is too elegant for rock".