Two words... Leigh Bowery.
What a crazy, creative, unique, one of a kind, wild, boundary breaking, out of this world man. The way he used fashion to make a plethora of strong statements and hardcore visual expressions is unlike anything I've ever seen or heard of. The extent he went to use art through his clothes and body is truly astounding. He was a "beautiful monster". Leigh spit on cultural and fashion norms and embraced the bizarre and horrifying. He used shock as he primary means of reaction through the public eye. He loved to be seen and be the only one looking the way he did. He was a neo-romantic who lived for beauty in the way he saw it.
He is definitely an innovator and I envy his ability to do what he wanted and not care about what anyone else thought. He grabbed life by the balls and never let anyone fall in his path to self-expression. Leigh was a character who acted his way through life. My only concern for the life he led was how thin the line was between the real-Leigh and the art piece-Leigh. When was it just an act and when was it reality? Overall he was truly amazing and one of a kind, again unlike anyone or anything I have ever heard or seen before.
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