Happy Birthday, Bowie: Tracing the Icon’s Runway Impact Inline
Photo: Monica Feudi / Feudiguaineri.com1/14Christophe Decarnin conjures up Bowie’s Stardust-era Kansai Yamamoto jumpsuits, Fall 2011.
Photo: Courtesy of Walter Van Beirendonck2/14An Aladdin Sane–worthy blazer spotted at Walter Van Beirendonck Fall 2013.
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / GoRunway.com3/14The print, the shoulders, the mullet! Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2011.
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / InDigitalteam I GoRunway4/14Hedi Slimane riffs on the Thin White Duke for Saint Laurent’s Spring ’14 menswear outing.
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / Indigitalimages.com5/14A couture homage to Bowie’s Yamamoto jumpsuits, courtesy of Raf Simons for Dior Spring 2015 Couture.
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / GoRunway.com6/14Carrot-colored hair and slouchy suiting à la the Thin White Duke: Dries Van Noten Fall 2011.
Photo: Courtesy of Undercover8/14Re-creating the Heroes cover in Jun Takahashi’s Undercover Fall ’15 menswear lookbook.
Photo: Yannis Vlamos / GoRunway.com9/14No one rocks a wide-brimmed fedora like Bowie—though Lanvin’s Fall 2011 models come in a close second.
Photo: Kim Weston Arnold / Indigitalimages.com11/14While John Galliano didn’t name-check Aladdin Sane, the persona was more than palpable in Maison Margiela’s glam, gender-bending Spring 2016 lineup.
Photo: FirstVIEW12/14A glam jumpsuit from the perennially music-obsessed Pam Hogg, Fall 2009.
Photo: Monica Feudi / GoRunway.com13/14That aforementioned Freddie Burretti jacket, as imagined at Givenchy Spring 2010.
Photo: Marcus Tondo14/14Hedi Slimane’s otherwise bohemian Spring ’14 menswear collectsion for Saint Laurent bore a handful of glam touches, like these Bowie-esque boots.
