David bowie drag

- BLUR (as Blondie) Who would have thought? David Bowie and Bono are gorgeous in drag! And Mick Jagger and Keith Richards aren't! Most of these musicians seem like they are just dressing up in women's clothes as

The radical influence of the gender-bending chameleon on androgyny in fashion

Androgyny was central to Bowie’s rising appeal—neither quite straight nor really gay, but something in between that cannot even be adequately described as bisexual. Yamamoto, the Japanese designer, said he liked to make clothes for Bowie because he was “neither man nor woman.” The image cultivated by Bowie, as he became more famous, was as a complete oddity, an isolated alien, a pop deity, utterly enigmatic, freakish, alienated, but dangerously alluring.

Bowie looking resplendent in drag for the Boys Keep Swinging music video, 1977