Source: Standard.co.uk.
UK – As Madonna kicks off her Celebration world tour in London, Kate Finnigan charts four pioneering decades of her shapeshifting looks.
When Madonna kicks off Celebration, her 12th world tour at the O2 this weekend, a retrospective of 40 years of her prima-Madonna-ish pop artistry, it’s not only going to be the hits and the inappropriately sexual dance moves everyone’s waiting for, it’s the looks.
In some ways the now 64-year-old’s music is merely a catchy backdrop to her wardrobe, which has by turn entranceed and annoyed people since she first bopped into Eighties’ post-punk New York in her cut-off t-shirts, mini-skirts and leggings, Today, you can’t really call yourself a pop goddess if you haven’t ground your pelvis into the eye of a camera wearing nothing but a see-through thong, but back then a woman singing about being like a virgin while wearing a lot of black eye liner and a lacy bra, was thrillingly outrageous.
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