How David Bowie's Fashion Transformations Changed the World

David Bowie was a master of every kind of drag. Unafraid to play fast and loose with gender, he reinvented himself endlessly, with each new incarnation inspiring boys and girls to copy his fashion as well as his sound.

In 1970, on the cover of The Man Who Fell to Earth, he was an effete street urchin in a vintage frock; a year later, he had his Greta Garbo moment on the cover of Hunky Dory. Then there were the legendary mutations into Aladdin Sane, with the jagged red hair and lightning bolt, the radical alien called Ziggy Stardust, and the strange austerity of the Thin White Duke.