Temple of Mystique

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And now, with no further ado, the dreaded evolution of the Blixa Bargeld neckline, also known as the… Pussy-Bow Typology.
In his earliest days, our young German experimental musician was very keen on showing off the physiognomy of his clavicle, both with Gudrun Gud’s famously holy jumpers from Eisengrau…
…and with his signature look for most of the early 80s, the Leotard Top.
My goodness. It’s useful to remember that in his youth, Herr Bargeld was a champion swimmer, and his leotards echo such sporting gear and costumes in many ways. Well, not always, but…
The item with which he accessorised his leotard-tops most frequently was a rubber necklace, echoing his fondness for other rubber gear such as we have explored before:
The rubber necklace is seen here paired with…
…Wolfgang Müller, whom Blixa was also very fond of wearing around his neck.
Early experiments with neck-gear also involved this interesting rat-skull bolero tie.
One can only presume that the infamous Rattenjenny of the SO36 intervened, and Blixa, knowing his fortune was his face, wished to keep it intact.
There was at this point, a long diversion into clerical collars. Since your author is the child of a priest, the less said on this subject, the better…
Except to note the brief interlude of this rare Priest Collar / Sleep Mask / Safety Belt combination! Sehr Stylisch!
And now, the moment we have all been waiting for, the PUSSY BOW ERA
The earliest incarnations of the Pussy Bow were a very ruffley affair indeed, but the Pussy Bow soon grew larger, more ostentatious…
More floppy and more foppish.
The Pussy Bow met a deeply unfortunate and untimely demise (one might say ~Der Tod~) while filming Dandy, on location in Egypt, where it melted under the heat of Blixa’s intense thirst. (Intense thirst being a subject we know much about here…)
The larger floppy pussy-bow was then replaced with the CLASSIC PUSSY BOW. Meow.
A style which he continued to wear well into the 90s, even long after he lost his hairspray, his backcombing tools and indeed his razor.
Before finally being condensed down to the purely vestigial Bow Tie.
And then we enter the dubious realm of Blixa’s incredibly dodgy taste in ties, which is a Typology for another day…
Side note: honestly, I wish some day, someone who knew A Lot about Couture (which I don’t) would actually sit down and speak with Blixa about his legendary sartorial style, and the semantics of his presentation. For example, if the rubber waistcoats were bought pret-a-porter, if they were self-fashioned, or, as I suspect, they were made for him by many of his designer friends (for example, the seatbelts-belts were made for him by Gudrun at Einsengrau.)