Lazing in a chair, sharp-suited and quiffed, David Bowie looks every inch the superstar.
The photo is one of five unreleased images of the late rock legend to be unveiled as part of the David Bowie: Icon exhibition.
They come from newly discovered Terry O’Neill negatives, restored from a famed 1974 portrait session in which Bowie wore a mustard-yellow Freddie Burretti suit.
In another image he poses with his first wife Angie, who helped invent Bowie’s flamboyant Ziggy Stardust alter-ego. She said Bowie looked like “the cat who got the cream” after being shown Burretti’s outfits. The designer worked closely with the singer, who later credited him with being “the ultimate co-shaper of the Ziggy look”.
When Burretti died in 2001, Bowie said: “Freddie and I changed our world to what we thought it could be.
“He lives on for me through his creative genius.”
The exhibition, at the Iconic Images Gallery in Chelsea, West London, runs until the end of October.
It includes images by Kevin Cummins, Gavin Evans, Justin de Villeneuve and Denis O’Regan. The photos are also in the film documentary Moonage Daydream, due in cinemas on Friday.
