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The Myth of Leigh Bowery Laid Bare in New Tate Show – James Payne

The Myth of Leigh Bowery Laid Bare in New Tate Show – James Payne

by News Desk | Feb 27, 2025 | Reviews

Leigh Bowery was a groundbreaking performance artist, club entrepreneur, fashion designer, musician…. a thief, a shitkicker and…uh…he wanted to be famous. Well, that last bit is a quote from John Water’s Female Trouble. I first met Leigh in the early 1980s...
TABOO Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London – Fashion + Textile Museum

TABOO Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London – Fashion + Textile Museum

by News Desk | Oct 1, 2024 | Features

Step into the creative hotbed of 1980s London with a new exhibition at the Fashion + Textile Museum in Bermondsey. Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London enters a time capsule, journeying back to 1985 when designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery launched the...
Leigh Bowery Still Entertaining And Relevant – James Payne

Leigh Bowery Still Entertaining And Relevant – James Payne

by News Desk | Jan 13, 2022 | Reviews

The performance artist Leigh Bowery died of AIDS-related illness on New Year’s Eve 1994 at only 33 years old. He didn’t tell anyone he was sick – except his best friend, Sue Tilley. When she asked him what she should tell people when he died, he...
Leigh Bowery Celebrated In Photos By Fergus Greer At Michael Hoppen Gallery

Leigh Bowery Celebrated In Photos By Fergus Greer At Michael Hoppen Gallery

by News Desk | Mar 12, 2019 | Previews

Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) was one of the worlds’ most influential cult figures, performance artists, fashion designers, nightclub proprietors, and art objects, in the 1980s and 1990s. He was above all an icon whose influence traversed music, art, film and the...

Club To Catwalk V&A Mounts 80s Fashion Exhibition For Summer

by News Desk | Dec 20, 2012 | News

The Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington is creating one of the most impressive fashion exhibitions  for summer 2013. Titled Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s, will explore the creative explosion of London fashion in the 1980s. It will look at...
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