Ziggy Stardust (Asymmetric Knitted Bodysuit)

At the beginning of “Time”, stagehands removed his cloak to reveal the Asymmetric Knitted Bodysuit shown here. The cloak and bodysuit were both designed by Kansai Yamamoto, who himself was seen wearing a shirt with a similar pattern backstage at the Odeon that night. Yamamoto latter would note the influence of hikinuki on his designs (a way of rapidly changing costumes in kabuki). This also came to be a feature of the Ziggy Stardust stage show, most dramatically in the change from the cloak to the bodysuit.