"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

His influence is so vast, it's hard to capture it in one category. Many top artists from past and present owe a great deal to this cultural icon. As an androgynous persona putting on make-up and singing about space travel, he became one of the most pioneering performers of modern times. David Bowie is, the first international retrospective, is now on view at London's Victoria and Albert Museum until August. It captures the creative processes of David Bowie through a  broad range of his collaborations with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theater, art and film.

This highly anticipated event, which quickly sold out until July, showcases his spirited legacy of costumes, chords and clips in over 300 personal items from Bowie himself. It's a dazzling multimedia program, curating his shift in style and sustained reinvention across five decades. "I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries."

Fans are set to be enthralled by the collection, which features the iconic Ziggy Stardust bodysuits from 1972 designed by Freddie Burretti, music videos such as Boys Keep Swinging and set designs created for the Diamond Dogs tour in 1974. Alongside these will be more personal items such as never-before-seen storyboards, handwritten set lists and lyrics as well as some of Bowie’s own sketches, musical scores and diary entries, revealing the evolution of his creative ideas.

See V&A's Victoria Broackes give an insight into the curatorial vision behind the David Bowie is exhibition and how they captured his creative spirit in this 3 minute video.

How can you categorize David Bowie? He is in a category all by himself - the essence of Fame and Fashion.

xoxo-Sonya