As fashion editor of Blitz,Iain R Webb asked a group of designers to customise a jacket. Among them was a man who would become an icon of the 1980sIn the 1980s I began my career in the new-style media. As fashion editor of Blitz magazine I commissioned 22 designers including John Galliano, Jean Muir and Vivienne Westwood to customise a Levi’s denim jacket. Among this glamorous roll-call was Leigh Bowery, or who I’d got to know on London’s avant-garde club scene.
Even though he was often caricatured as a clown,Leigh was fiercely serious approximately his work. He spent days painstakingly positioning thousands of golden hairgrips on to his jacket in row upon row of fringing that jangled as it moved. He also lined it with turquoise satin on to which he applied sequins the size of 50p pieces.
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Source: theguardian.com