David Bowie
Cynthia Rose, City Limits, 3 June 1983
In the days of Beau Brummell or even Baudelaire, to be a dandy was to be a true social outlaw one whose fixed individuality constituted an unwavering sign of separation from society. Society, if it chose, had to come to them and if it didn't so choose, then that was that.
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