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Figure 46: David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, dressed by Kansai Yamamoto, 1972
This platform-booted space-age style also found expression in David
Bowie’s alter ego Ziggy Stardust (Fig. 46), an identity that exemplifies the
Japanesque but also establishes the Japanese position in the canon of “visual
style” in that the fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto was the creator of this
visual persona, as well as the costume designer for Bowie’s subsequent role
as Aladdin Sane. As Bowie was one of the most inspirational figures in
regard to Glam and then New Romanticism, but certainly is still in terms of
G&L’s ancestry, Kansai’s part in this evolution is of great importance.
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