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Artists and admirers alike reflect on his deep effect of David Bowie through intimate stories and treasured memorabilia.

The Electronic Music Icon

Bowie was arguably the truly influential individuals I've spent time with. He frequented my niche event in London, a place he could be anonymous. While recording, he would perform through a cloud of smoke rings akin to a beast in the fog. We also traveled to listen to breakbeats together. His approach echoed an visionary – he desired to immerse himself in diverse sources as he understood ideas might come from any source. An unforgettable remark he told me involved Michelangelo: By dusting off the dust on a piece of stone, the figure exists within.” That concept lingered with me to this day.

I hope the collection includes select his interviews, particularly those where he discussed DJ culture, the internet, and the impending flood of content availability. Hardly anyone at the time understood the shift as clearly as Bowie managed to. He likened it as: “Treat this thing like a gentle trap. It’s extremely smooth and emotional on your skin, however it might slice you like a knife.”

The Music Artist

Exploring archives ranks high of my peak encounters. Previously envisioned Emily Dickinson as contemplative, saddened, or enthralled. But at the Emily Dickinson museum, I came across her preferred everyday outfit: an item meant for cleaning or cooking. Regardless of all her expressive lines composed on paper, that clothing indicated that she was a petite slender of a woman, more diminutive than me. I have an intuition that the garments created by Freddie Burretti would give me an analogous perspective about Bowie.

Back when I turned an adolescent growing up in upstate New York State, a friend passed along a copy of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. It delivered me wholly to another place. In the artwork, the star was dressed in a patterned suit with a abstract pattern, a form-fitting jacket unzipped to the waist and matching trousers. He appeared alien, confident, incredibly cool, ambiguous, challenging. His fabulous costumes during the Ziggy era refined his gender-bending iconic identity. Even if I did not see the full collection, I’d settle for a moment alone with this seminal album cover suit that played such an important function in my youthful awakening.

The Admirer

During my youth, I discovered that record in storage. It’s among the few items I inherited that belonged to my parent – someone who was absent but thankfully connects us through a taste in music. For me, this Ziggy costume represents partnership, confidence and courage. A conversation in a London club alongside designer Freddie Burretti created an fluid otherworldly figure, the first of Bowie’s legendary characters as part of a type of time lord. The star's blend of music, apparel and creativity felt so captivating and timeless that his death almost felt like one more metamorphosis. I’d love to examine the garment to comprehend how that was possible, where it began and the impact it had.

Moby

Back when both of us were neighbors opposite each other in New York he would sometimes ring and say: “Hey, do you wanna come over and jam on this song?” On an evening departing from the home where he lived, passing along this very fancy hallway featuring art, he called out: Wait a second – I want you to have this and presented me with his black fedora hat. Recently viewing him in the film The Hunger recently I thought: Wow, there’s my hat!” For years, it disappeared, I assumed taken by the crack addicts I’d invite back to my apartment after hours when I was still indulging with liquor and drugs.

Several years later later living in Los Angeles going through some boxes and I discovered the David Bowie magic hat. I’m so glad to have it back, apart from that the piece I dream of examining is an advertisement for a show in Hamburg in 1978. There’s a drawn self-portrait and below are albums: Low, “Heroes”, ChangesOneBowie and Space Oddity. For capturing a specific era, nothing compares. It would be incredible to have the chance to return to 1978 and experience him live tracks and Station to Station, most beloved Bowie album.

Peter Murphy, Bauhaus

When I first I encountered Bowie in this outfit was in a magazine piece announcing that he had come back home, big news at the time. That show at Wembley was an remarkable experience. Those years represented a shift away from his indulgent years and he attempted to clean up, which was reflected in the outfit: clean cut, formal blouse and trousers, black waistcoat, {slick hairdo|styled