It’s an ordinary weekday afternoon at the tail end of summer, with frazzled parents and fractious kids playing tourists in London’s Olympic Park. But nestled deep in an adjacent hangar, originally built as the 2012 Olympic broadcasting centre, British Vogue is on secret assignment. The mission: to unearth previously unseen David Bowie fashion ephemera in the V&A East Storehouse before the doors of the David Bowie Centre open to the public on 13 September. The vibe: palpable!

We’re rubber gloved and cloaked in shadows, as technicians race to finish lighting the temperature-controlled space, which feels like an intriguing fusion of a) an IKEA warehouse, b) a science lab and c) an achingly minimalist gallery (Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy springs to mind). On the table lies a diamanté-dott

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