WHAT IS IT ABOUT DAVID BOWIE?

Posted by Melanie Rickey, Fashion Editor at Large

It is no surprise to me that the V&A's spookily well timed David Bowie Is retrospective exhibition is already proving to be the fastest selling in the museum's history, with 42,000 advance tickets sold. I'm off to the Press View in the morning and can feel little jolts of excitement every time I look up and see my invitation. Shame I can't make the party tomorrow night, but I fear the fan girl in me would be uable to cope with the proximity of Tilda Swinton, and the possibility that Bowie might turn up, that is if he has secretly been on a ship from NYC all week.  Bowie is a man who does not get on aeroplanes and fly.

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DAVID BOWIE'S SEXY, CREEPY, ANDROGYNOUS NEW VIDEO

Posted by Bethan Holt, Junior Fashion Editor at Large

As if by magic, David Bowie is staging a hype inducing comeback just as a major exhibition about his career is set to open at the V&A, coincidence? You can bet there'll be plenty of questions on that subject at the press view. Where are we now? came as a mahoosive surprise when it was released back in January but now we know there's a new album which will be released in a few weeks- The Next Day. Then today we woke up to a brand new video for one of the tracks on the album, The Stars (Are Out Tonight). You should know this has absolutely nothing to do with Take That's Stardust soundtrack. Actually, it's directed by Floria Sigismondi and shot by Jeff Cronenweth, and is a feast of cool, creepy, clever brilliance for weary, wintered-out souls. Melanie is calling it an "androgynous wet dream". Tilda Swinton stars as Bowie's wife with male model Andrej Pejic- as a girl- and Saskia de Brauw-as a boy- as naughty influencers leading the dogooding marrieds astray from their quietly humdrum suburban life. It's stylish, perverse and brilliant and at FEAL towers we are watching it on a loop. Look out for Dominic Jones' terrifying claws which almost rip off Mr Bowie's beautiful face...