“And so the story goes they wore the clothes, They said the things to make it seem improbable”
Saturday’s edition of the Telegraph Magazine in the UK has an interesting piece wherein Kansai Yamamoto talks about the clothes he designed for Bowie's Aladdin Sane tour.
He specifically mentions making the asymmetrical woollen creation pictured here, just one of nine costumes that Kansai presented to Bowie in Tokyo on his visit to Japan for nine shows in April 1973.
Coincidentally, the same day the BBC's Radio 4 broadcast a half hour show entitled: I dressed Ziggy Stardust. (Saturday, Radio 4,
David Bowie by Masayoshi Sukita