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The extreme wide legs of the costume are adapted from hakama, a style of loose Japanese trousers first worn by samurai warriors, whilst the bulging structure and white stripes across the garment are perhaps inspired by the costumes designed by Bauhaus pioneer Oskar Schlemmer for his <i>Triadisches Ballett</i> in 1922. When worn on stage by Bowie, 'Tokyo Pop' incorporated a Kabuki \"hininuki\" technique, by which two stage hands would pull-off the jumpsuit to reveal a new costume underneath.\n\nKansai Yamamoto was a Japanese designer who worked closely with David Bowie in the early 1970s to create some of his most iconic Ziggy Stardust stage looks. Yamamoto was the first Japanese fashion designer to hold a collection show in London in 1971, with the designer setting out to prove that the aesthetic of Japan was ‘of world standard’. His show, advertising his 1971 Tokyo/London collection, incorporated designs and stage directions inspired by Kabuki theatre’s use of flamboyant colour and unique forms of expression. Harpers &amp; Queen (a forerunner of Harper’s Bazaar) reported on the show, dedicating the magazine cover and a six-page editorial to the designer. Bowie later stated that this editorial was the inspiration for his Ziggy Stardust red mullet haircut, relaying that “the Ziggy hairstyle was taken lock, stock and barrel from a Kansai display in Harpers”. \r\n\r\nBowie was greatly inspired by Japan and Japanese culture, particularly Kabuki theatre, and so it is perhaps unsurprising that he was drawn to Yamamoto’s designs. The “Woodland Creatures” jumpsuit from the 1971 collection was amongst the first Yamamoto pieces purchased by Bowie, and his new Japanese attire made its debut on stage at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park on the 19th and 20th August 1972. Yamamoto’s personal stylist, Yasuko Hayashi, worked with Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita in the early 1970s to dress Bowie for his shoots, and provided him with further designs by Yamamoto, before orchestrating a meeting between the pair after Bowie’s performance at Radio City Music Hall in February 1973. Yamamoto later said that ‘the image of David in [his] costume and the whole musical universe he created in Radio City Music Hall...has been chiselled in my brain with unfading vividness’. 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