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David Bowie: Desperately Seeking the Goon Squad

Reading the tributes these past few days to David Bowie, in particular those extolling his fashion icon status, it occurs to me with sadness how little he features in my classroom. Or, more to the point, how little a presence he seems to have in my students’ lives. (I will refer to Bowie in the present tense because his influence on fashion isn’...

19 Jan 2016

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'Style king' David Bowie hailed at London Collections: Men Day 4

His ground breaking career was as much about style as it was about music -- David Bowie plundered a wild array of influences to redraw the boundaries of fashion and blur the lines between masculine, feminine and other-worldly. In the middle of Burberry's London fashion show, a model showed her palms to photographers, displaying a name written in...

12 Jan 2016