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Since then, they have collaborated across art and design, combining Hiren’s experience in music, fashion and visual culture with Maria’s eye for detail, form and ornamentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1287\" data-end=\"1586\"\u003eThe collection draws upon the history of Japanese graphic storytelling. Katsushika Hokusai helped popularise the term \u003cem data-start=\"1405\" data-end=\"1412\"\u003emanga\u003c\/em\u003e through his celebrated nineteenth-century sketchbooks, while Osamu Tezuka—creator of \u003cem data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1509\"\u003eAstro Boy\u003c\/em\u003e—later transformed the medium and became known as the father of modern manga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1588\" data-end=\"1860\"\u003eBowie was a natural subject for this visual fusion. His career continually crossed the boundaries between music, theatre, art and fashion, while his collaborations with Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto helped create some of the most memorable stage costumes of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1862\" data-end=\"2233\"\u003eA central inspiration is Bowie’s distressed \u003cstrong data-start=\"1906\" data-end=\"1931\"\u003eUnion Jack frock coat\u003c\/strong\u003e, created with Alexander McQueen for the cover of \u003cem data-start=\"1981\" data-end=\"1992\"\u003eEarthling\u003c\/em\u003e in 1997. Against a pastoral British landscape, the torn and weathered flag became a striking symbol of identity, tradition and reinvention—perfectly reflecting Bowie’s ability to dismantle familiar imagery and rebuild it into something new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2235\" data-end=\"2452\"\u003eEach artwork translates a different Bowie identity into the dramatic lines, heightened emotion and graphic energy of manga while retaining the elegance and visual experimentation that defined his extraordinary career.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bowie-manga-starman-takes-the-stage","title":"Starman Takes the Stage","description":"\u003cp\u003eA radiant concert-stage composition places Bowie beneath an explosion of gold, red and electric light. 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