A friend on Facebook wrote tonight "RIP Michael Jackson. He's the first person the media actually killed." True, the media has been unkind to Jackson in recent years - justly or unjustly. The fashion media was a bit more kind - if only to acknowledge during the Eighties and into the Nineties, Michael Jackson was as much a trendsetter for fashion as he was for music. There’s the red leather motorcycle jacket he rocked in the “Beat It” video; the white ankle socks, black fedora and black loafers he wore when he moonwalked; the military-style jacket and aviator sunglasses he toured in during the “Thriller” era; the white V-neck T-shirt that he always eventually stripped down to onstage, and finally, there was that glove, first worn during a performance of “Billie Jean” during a television special in 1983. More than two decades later, The King of Pop’s style endures. For spring 2009, Balmain sent a Jackson-esque military jacket down the runway. According to WWD, from which this blog entry was adapted, Jackson hits like “Thriller” and “PYT (Pretty Young Thing)” are soundtrack staples for runway shows even still. R.I.P. WWD
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