Leigh Bowery as a Fashion Designer

"I believe that fashion (where all the girls have clear
skins, blue eyes, blond blow-waved hair and a size ten figure and where all
the men have clear skin, moustaches, short blow-waved hair and masculine physique
and appearance) STINKS. I think that firstly individuality is important, and
that there should be no main rules for behaviour and appearance. therefore i
want to look as best as I can, through my means of individuality and expressiveness.
I think that the clothes i am interested in are strictly the opposite to what's
in mass taste, and that there is a minority that like the same style as me"


- Leigh Bowery in his diary - 1981

(extract from the book "Lifes And Times Of An Icon" by Sue Tilley
- p97)

"If clothes are going to mean anything they've got to threaten or challenge.
If they have that edge they should provoke people into thinking ... I don't
want the things I make to be merely flamboyant; that's been done before. I want
them to have that edge, to be absurd or ridiculous"

- Leigh Bowery, i-D Magazine in 1987.

1984 Fashion Show - Japan

In late 1984 Susanne Bartsch took Leigh to Japan to show his
frilly clothes at the same time that Michael Kostiff organized an art show for
Trojan. The Japanese were at first horrified at Leigh´s show and didn´t
know what to make of it at all, but once they saw the other English desingers
laughing and clapping they dared to titter embarrassedly behind their hands.
(extract from the book "Lifes And Times Of An Icon" by Sue Tilley)

Models wearing Leigh's creations at the

New London New York Fashion Show

(produced by Suzanne Bartsch)





( pic by Lucien)

Space Princess wearing Bowery's

Dressing Up Boy George

DJ Tasty Tim wears a hat by Leigh Bowery

on the cover of his record "Sugar Sugar"

Creation date : 19/01/2007 @ 16:37
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