“But the Pretty Green Tees are following me”
Pretty Green, the menswear label founded by Liam Gallagher, has teamed up with Mick Rock to create a range of five T-shirts featuring iconic Ziggy era Bowie images.
The Pretty Green Mick Rock David Bowie T-shirt collection will be available to buy from Pretty Green’s online store in limited numbers from 31st October, priced at £95 each.
Scroll the images here to view larger versions of each shirt. We’ll leave you with the blurb from the press release.
This season we’ve had the pleasure of working with the legendary Rock and Roll photographer Mick Rock on a range of limited edition T-shirts developed from Mick’s iconic photographs of David Bowie.
Mick Rock (born 1948 in London, England) is a renowned British photographer who has created iconic shots of rock and roll legends such as Queen, David Bowie, Syd Barrett, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Joan Jett, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Thin Lizzy, Mötley Crüe, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Blondie.
Often referred to as “The Man Who Shot the Seventies”, most of the memorable images of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust were shot by Rock, in his capacity as Bowie’s official photographer. Being part of this Glam Rock movement meant that Mick’s lens was at the heart of a cutting edge music and fashion scene which radically transformed the culture of the times.
The photos we’ve used for ‘The David Bowie Collection’ were taken in 1973 and are a mixture of performance images and those taken from the iconic saxophone session which formed part of the artwork he art directed for the ‘Pin Ups’ album. At the time Bowie’s experimentation with makeup, mime and outrageous costumes were revolutionary. They were like nothing ever seen before and inspired a whole new generation of rebels.