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" When David Bowie first found acclaim with his novelty single &amp;quot;Space Oddity&amp;quot; in 1969, few fans could imagine what would come next. That&amp;#039;s because what came next was totally novel, strangely beautiful, and dangerously asexual, and its name was Ziggy Stardust. Bowie&amp;#039;s Ziggy Stardust persona wore leotards, sported makeup and an eye patch, and had strange, spikey red hair that was short and long at the same time. These are things men in the west had never done before, and it sold millions of records and concert tickets. And then Ziggy was gone. Taking cues from the mercurial Beatles, Bowie reinvented himself overnight, this time as Aladdin Sane. Bowie showcased his newly created rock god on a legendary tour that turned the rock show into surreal theater featuring movie sidewalks, huge set pieces, and an actual cherry picker that carried Bowie out over the crowd as he sang. Throughout it all Bowie wore tight velvet pants, sci-fi shoulder pads, and a rotund, structural bodysuit created by Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto. After that there would be more reinvention, with Bowie taking on a seemingly endless number of personas. In fact, reinvention has defined Bowie&amp;#039;s career\u2014and style\u2014as much as anything else, as fans fell in love with The Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and many others. In doing so, he exposed the world to male uninhibited male vanity, starting a conversation about gender, clothing, and identity that would help redefine western masculinity in the coming decades.              "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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