Britain’s Victoria & Albert Museum has announced that it has acquired David Bowie’s archive of more than 80,000 items as a gift from the late musician’s estate. The collection will be viewable to the public at a new arts center dedicated to the pop icon.
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“Bowie’s a polymath, he’s multifaceted. He was inspired by all genres and disciplines,” she said. “He’s an artist who was working really in 360 -- drawing from literature, but also drawing from art history ... the places that he’d been to.” Some of the items in the archive formed part of “David Bowie Is,” a multimedia exhibition that toured the world after a sold-out run at the VSome items are iconic, such as a multicolored quilted jumpsuit designed by Freddie Burretti for Bowie’s alien rock star creation Ziggy Stardust, Kansai Yamamoto’s futuristic creations for the Aladdin Sane tour in 1973 or the Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander McQueen for the cover of 1997’s “Earthling” album.
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