Bowie Style

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A richly illustrated 160-page chronicle of pops greatest exponent of style. This visual examination of a celebrated multi-faceted career documents the impact of David Bowie on twentieth-century fashion & culture, brilliantly capturing his spatial odyssey from dedicated follower to supreme arbiter of rock chic. As the book says, Bowies "style" has always amounted to more than clothes, hair & cosmetics. Style, for Bowie, is inextricable from art...it is less a flight from reality than an entire way of life.

From his humble Brixton beginnings to the classy pop icon in the last quarter of the old millennium (every year from 1962 to 1999 is amply represented), the book shows a changing glamour gallery of Bowies down the years, all different & yet somehow all unified by an unerring grasp of Style with a capital S. Whether its on-stage with The King Bees in the Sixties, off-stage at Haddon Hall in the Seventies, on-stage (again) with Iggy Pop in the Eighties, or back-stage with Morrissey in the Nineties, Steve Pafford, editor of the UKs Crankin Out Bowie fan club magazine (PO Box 3268, London NW6 4NH), has unearthed some fascinating pix.

There are close to 500 images in Bowie Style, an all-time high, & around 40% are guaranteed previously unseen. Theres also an exclusive two-page interview with photographer Mick Rock, contributions from ex-manager Ken Pitt, as well as previously unpublished extracts of Crankin Outs interviews with collaborator Tony Visconti, clothes designer Natasha Kornilof & Manish Boy Bob Solly.

The informed, incisive text & picture captions are also littered with"es from David himself, compiled from various media interviews conducted over the years, as well as his chats with Crankin Out, which appear in print for the very first time.

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A wonderful book with brilliant trivia, the perfect way to remember this incredible man.

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