David Bowie’s style legacy: ‘He stole ideas from everywhere’

From Aladdin Sane’s jumpsuit to the Thin White Duke’s suits, Bowie’s distinctive outfits have influenced designers from Jean Paul Gaultier to Hedi SlimaneIn 2012, I visited the V&A’s costume preservation department to see the preparations for the museum’s record-breaking David Bowie retrospective the following year. A curator carefully unwrapped the tissue paper around one garment and laid it out for me to see. It was an item as familiar to me as the school unif