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Kansai Yamamoto’s fantastic outfits for David Bowie’s ‘Aladdin Sane’ tour
10.01.2013
11:11 am
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Kansai Yamamoto was one of the most important “Japanese Contemporary” fashion designers who arrived on the scene in the 1970s, His primary accomplishment as a young designer was to appropriate the traditional Japanese garb of the past—kimonos, samurai armor, and so forth—and from them create enchanting modern variations.

Bowie has said that Yamamoto was “100 per cent responsible for the Ziggy haircut and colour,” saying, according to Peter Doggett’s book The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s, “He had just unleashed all the Kabuki- and Noh-inspired clothes on London, and one of his models had the Kanuki lion’s mane on her head, this bright red thing.” 

According to Cameron Silve’s Decades: A Century of Fashion, Yamamoto said of Bowie, “He has an unusual face, don’t you think? He’s neither man nor woman, if you see what I mean, which suited me as a designer because most of my clothes are for either sex.”

For his Aladdin Sane tour, Bowie sought Yamamoto out for some wacked-out space-age costumery, and Yamamoto produced the following looks:
 
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Here’s Bowie with the designer:
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Previously on Dangerous Minds:
‘Who will live Aladdin Sane?’: Bowie building set for 2012 construction
A lad in Hanes: David Bowie in his skivvies, 1973

Posted by Martin Schneider
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10.01.2013
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