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Leigh Bowery.

Leigh Bowery Designer.

Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer, based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York City art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Meadham Kirchhoff, Alexander McQueen, Lucian Freud, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, Lady Gaga, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York City which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.

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Leigh Bowery

       Leigh Bowery has made a tremendous impact for performing artists today.  He was born in a conservative home with a mother who loved fashion.  He left his native Australian town and moved to London to pursue his fashion designing career.  When all failed, he did start to earn a reputation for his outrageous outfits.  In 1982 he started to promote for a club while dressed up in his intricate designs.  His work was featured in numerous collections during London's fashion week too.   performed at. His club was an escape for homosexuals who wanted to have fun without being judged.  He was widely flamboyant and often dressed up in clothes that emphasized his larger size. His fashion career sky rocketed in 1988 during a show in Dering Street Gallery that lasted a week.  Artists were extremely interested in his unique techniques.  He really captivated the street and it served as a major influence during the show.  He even played self recordings of traffic noises.  kable ...

 Leigh Bowery Inspirations by Leidy Gaga,

  Bowery can be seen as an influence on Lady Gaga, because of her remarkable fashion and numerous outfit changes during her music videos.  In her music video "Paparazzi" she changed 10 times.  Some of her leather jumpsuits and high shoes also resemble what Leigh Bowery wore.  Leigh Bowery died from AIDS in 1994, while only telling a couple of people of his disease.  

Jean Paul Goude

Biography

Jean-Paul Goude (born 1940, Saint-Mandé, Paris, France) is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and advertising film director. He has formerly worked as art director at Esquire Magazine in New York during the 1970s, and famously choreographed the 1989 Bicentennial Parade in Paris to mark the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.

 In addition, over the last three decades, he has created well known campaigns and illustrations for brands including Perrier, Citroën, Kodak, and Chanel.

     Jean-Paul Gaultier’s couture shows are always incredibly fun. Not only is the production grandiose, but the crème de la crème of Paris is always there, too–Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Goude, you name it.

This time, the designer, who has always celebrated pop culture, decided to pay homage to the late Amy Winehouse, whose bold personality and rock and roll Barbie figure became an emblem of London.
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