John Thornton 1974

PHOTO Magazine - August 1974

All photographs by John Thornton 

LA MODE A DEUX

Jours de France - October 1974

Christian Dior

BEBE BUELL

Playboy - November 1974

"our november playmate may be the girlfriend of rock star todd rundgren, but she's very much her own woman"

While the band tunes up before Todd's concert at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, he and Bebe take a few moments together and chat with a fan (below).

The next day, Bebe stops to pick up a magazine featuring a photo of her.

Back in New York - and to work - Bebe poses (above) for top photographer Pete Turner.  "For some models," says Bebe, "shooting sessions are nothing but a lot of hard work.  Not for me; I like the idea of putting myself into any mood or pose my photographer thinks is beautiful."  

Returning to Turner's studio several days later (below), Bebe gets a chance to look at the transparencies of the shooting."

Photographed by Richard Fegley

DRESSING IN PIECES

"...the way everyone want to dress today.  Five pages of basics to collect now - the clothes you wear with the clothes you own...move around...keep for a long, long time...and never put away."

Vogue US - January 1974

"The new way to think about fashion is to think of collecting the best pieces of fashion: the best shirts, skirts, pants.  The best coat to put over everything else.  Even a dress today comes in pieces - a shirt or sweater with a skirt to match....These aren't your old-fashioned separates-y separates - not the little extras you throw into a wardrobe.  These clothes are the main event: basic, practical, modern fashion that never stops working for you - they pay their way."

Yves Saint Laurent

Oscar de la Renta

Oscar de la Renta

Mollie Parnis 

Mollie Parnis

Photographed by Penn

EUROPEAN READY-TO-WEAR

"...the news as we see it"

Anny Duperey

Vogue US - January 1974

Missoni

Karl Lagerfeld for Chloe

Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche

Karl Lagerfeld for Chloe

Missoni

Photographed by Helmut Newton

PUERTO RICO

"The delights of island living, island dressing - more pleasurable than ever now in Puerto Rico..."

Vogue US - January 1974

Giorgio di Sant'Angelo

Nina Ricci

Diane Von Furstenberg

Left: Dalani II, Right: Paganne

Photographed by Bob Stone

HOUSE OF BREEZES - OSCAR AND FRANCOISE DE LA RENTA

"the spirit, the living, the upkeep - each a breeze"

Vogue US - January 1974

Oscar and Francoise de la Renta

Dominican Republic

"To us the luxury of having a beach house," says Francoise, "is to be able to walk barefoot into the living room and sit without worrying if your bathing suit is wet.  Everything costs the minimum, everything is replaceable and washable.  The only things here of value are antique Chinese porcelain fish (shown above) that we keep filled with flowers."

"We tried to keep to the colors of the island - no violent reds, blues, yellows."

"We decided a house on the sand, surrounded by blue water, should be cool and dim inside."

Anna with breakfast - fresh fruits, yucca pancakes - on a Dominican tray.

Photographed by Horst P. Horst

ASTRAL FLASH

HIGH-STEPPING UP THAT STAIRWAY TO THE STARS

Oui Magazine - February 1974

Stardust's Plastique Space Suit: Jan Girard

made of shower-curtain fabric by the Wear-Ever Shower Curtain Company

"Let your clothes do the talking.  If David Bowie can flame with orange hair and his look a-like wife can do hers up in white with red and purple stripes - well, why be shy?  Stardust and Philippe aren't hanging back.  They run around the city in their twinkling jump suits, hopping out of cabs in front of frightened doormen, streaking across the park like dreamscape joggers, and glowing incandescently wherever the strobes are popping the night."

That ain't no soda pop they're sipping.

Space Suits: DuMaurier

 Her Glasses: Ultimate Spectacle, His: Renaulds

Aviator Suits: Ronald Kolodzie of Concept Seven

Outfits: Freddie, Bracelet: Alexis Kirk, Earrings: Childstar, Sunglasses: Ultimate Spectacle

A London Designer by the name of Freddie made these Grand Union Supermarket Clothes.  The mysterious Mr.Freddie lives and works out of David Bowie's London flat.  He has done much to create that Ziggy Stardust stage magic-sewing machines snapping out this insane kind of star-trekking mind-strobing Superflash.   Fabulous Freddie is almost as gorgeous as his mentor, we hear.  Freddie has a Mick Jagger face topped by a full curly d.a. haircut that he often sprays silver when he's going out on the town.

Outfits: Kansai

Kansai also invents some of David Bowie's more extravagant stage clothes.  One of Japan's hottest new designers.  Kensai works out of Tokyo and has a boutique in London.  He specializes in capes (above) that tear off at the shoulder to reveal the juicy Ambisexual Superflash lurking just underneath. 

Photographed by Chris Von Wangenheim