Sue Tilley & Charlie Porter on Leigh Bowery

Boy George once described Leigh Bowery as ‘modern art on legs’. From his arrival in London in 1981 – clutching a suitcase and sewing machine – to his death from AIDS on New Year’s Eve 1994, Bowery led an extraordinary life; a life chronicled in the equally extraordinary biography by his closest friend and confidante Sue Tilley, reissued by Thames and Hudson this February.

Tilley was at the shop to discuss Bowery’s life and legacy with Charlie Porter, author of What Artists Wear and the novel Nova Scotia House.