My heart’s in the basement…
BowieNetter beepbeep sent in the above snap of a four foot square framed print of a Terry O’Neill shot of David Bowie from 1974. He spied it recently in the men’s section in the basement of the
There were no prints of other celebrities on display, and sadly, this one wasn’t for sale either. Well at least the store reproduced the image the right way round, unlike the
Apart from the obvious reason of Bowie being the most stylish setter of trends of all time, I’m not quite sure why Liberty chose to use this iconic shot of DB. Perhaps it’s payback for when he used to shop there for Ziggy fabrics, or at least for pretending he did, as evidenced in this excerpt from a 1993 interview with him that I’ll leave you with…
“Most of the look for Ziggy was basically from the Kubrick film – it was Clockwork Orange and the jumpsuits in that movie I thought were just wonderful. I liked the malicious kind of malevolent, viscous quality of those four guys although the aspects of violence themselves didn’t turn me on particularly. So I wanted to put another spin on that, so I went to Liberty’s or places like that in London – probably a shop on Tottenham Court Road is more like it – but Liberty sounds better.
I picked out all these very florid, bright quilted kind of materials and so that took the edge off the violent look of those suits but still retained that type of terrorist “we-are-ready-for-action” kind of look and the wrestling boots with laces on – but I changed the colour and made them greens and blues and stuff like that. So that was the basic look but instead of just having one eyelash I went the whole hog and had two eyelashes.”