Luminous stick, cyborg eye, futuristic jumpsuit and laser fog ... with their Spacer music video from 1979, the singer Sheila and her disco group Black Devotion were doing fashion tech before the trend even had a name.
By Ludmilla Intravaia
"He's a spacer. A star chaser. At Spaaaaaaaceeer”. Unless you had lived under a rock in 1979, it’s difficult to have escaped the success of the title of the French singer Sheila and her group Black Devotion, Spacer, from the album King of the World which has just celebrated its forty years, this June 27.
A disco treasure, produced by Bernard Edwards and Nike Rodgers of the American group Chic, with a delicious french touch which takes all its flavor deciphered under the prism of fashion tech, or more exactly what should be called old school fashion tech : a fashion tech that, at the time, was unaware of itself but nevertheless laid the groundwork for a futuristic and science-fiction universe that still feeds our imagination today (images below : © Warner).
On the program of this Spaaaaaaaceeer : a luminous stick which proves that Lady Gaga did not invent anything (read here), one of the dancers of Black Devotion with a cyborg eye, laser fog and Sheila’s silver lamé and satin jumpsuit with rhinestone, designed by Loris Azzaro, founder of the house Azzaro Couture. Discover the music video, below.
* The King of the World album was reedited for its 40th anniversary, in a remastered version, on June 26, 2020, at Warner.
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