Union Jacket

Here’s a better shot of the Union Jack jacket I mentioned yesterday.

It’s the result of a collaboration between Alexander McQueen and David Bowie and Mr. Bowie opened his Earthling tour in 1996-97, back turned, wearing it.

It was a fashion moment I shall not forget.

It also made an appearance on the album’s cover and in The Met’s AngloMania exhibition at the Costume Institute in 2006, borrowed from Bowie’s personal collection.

The Union Jack seems to leave a constant visual impression for many a designer. I’m still not over the McQueen boots and Chanel bag from the Paris-Londres collection.

Images (in order): 1. via LiveJournal; 2. Image by Mitchell Gerber/CORBIS; 3. via Tower Records; 
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art image.