Bowie Style

Decked out like a Christmas tree.
Audiences who dressed like their idols were a
rare breed before Ziggy Stardust. The odd Elvis or
Jagger lookalike might have lurked in the shadows,
but fans usually showed their appreciation in the
time-honoured fashion of pinning posters on
bedroom walls or waving hastily-scrawled placards.
Bowie, via Ziggy’s comic-book look, inspired a rash
of lookalikes, many of whom (the ‘Bowie Boys’)
mimicked his each and every stylistic change
throughout the Seventies. It’s worth noting that
enthusiasm for Glass Spider suits or Black Tie
White Noise chic during the past two decades has
been muted.
The Bowie cult was remarkable in that it constituted
an entire subculture centred on a single personality.
When Cracked Actor director Alan Yentob asked a
fan if he was “into the Bowie universe”, the response