David Bowie & Iman ‘He was my soulmate’
They met on a surprise blind date, set up by a friend in Los Angeles in 1990. He was the quicksilver rock’n’roll genius famed for hits such as ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and ‘Space Oddity’. She was the supermodel from Somalia whose beauty and intelligence had captivated the fashion world and beyond. “David said it was love at first sight,” she recalls. “It took me a few months, but I got there.”
“My daughter Alexandria says, ‘I hope I find a man who loves me the way my dad loved my mum’”
- IMAN
When they wed, on June 6, 1992, in Florence, there was no couple more glamorous and cool than the model and the musician. They built a happy life together in New York City, where Bowie – who was born David Jones in working-class London – often picked up their daughter Alexandria from school (always stopping
