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She was a female pro-communist character, named in celebration of the October Revolution. In the book <i>Moonage Daydream: The Life And Times Of Ziggy Stardust</i>, David Bowie said \"Because of Burgess’s use of Russian words and street slang in the novel <i>A Clockwork Orange</i>, I got quite passionate about the Russian underground for a couple of months, and for the <i>1980 Floor Show </i>even renamed Amanda Lear ‘Octobriana’ after the Russian radical comic book heroine\". \r\n\r\nThis costume was originally a three piece-suit, with a jacket. In 1974, Bowie appeared at a press conference at the Amstel Hotel, Amsterdam, which he later recalled ' ... I had this most incredible jacket that I was wearing that night. It was a bottle-green bolero jacket that Freddie made for me, and he got an artist to paint, using the appliqué technique, this supergirl from a Russian comic [Octobriana] on the back. But I took the jacket off during the press conference and somebody stole it. I was really pissed off.\" In 2013, Dutch writer and poet Elly de Waard confessed that she had stolen the jacket in anger after not being granted an interview by Bowie. 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