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| David Bowie |
When the news of David Bowie’s death broke this week last year, and emails circulated that mourned and celebrated the artist, a colleague asked what designers Mr. Bowie had most influenced. “What designer didn’t he influence?” another wrote. It’s a good question.
Because, while it’s possible to identify Bowie-isms on many a runway — sometimes overtly, as in Jean Paul Gaultier’s spring 2013 women’s wear collection, “Rock Stars,” when the designer showed a Bowie-esque asymmetric star-spangled net cat suit; sometimes covertly, as last season, when Haider Ackermann sent out sharp-shouldered button-down shirts with contrast collars on mulleted models, and Alessandro Michele at Gucci challenged gender conventions by putting men in floral suits with matching shirts — his effect is, in fact, much deeper, and more indelible, than any single look or shoulder style.
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| Gaultier, Ackermann and Van Noten all take fashion inspiration from Bowie |
n a very essential way, Mr. Bowie helped make fashion writ large — fashion the system, fashion the pop culture force — the ever-mutating megalith we know today. It’s why his effect is felt not just in men’s wear but in women’s wear, too; not just in ready-to-wear, but in couture; from high to low and back again.
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