evolution

The Royal Monceau hotel in Paris

I will be thoroughly disappointed as a fan if there isn’t something released in regards to a tour book! I mean we’re so deep into the tour but how this commemorates her career this tour and to be the first one without? I cannot stress how disappointing it is 😒

I got one too the first night! I was so happy to see it in stock. It was definitely a pleasant surprise 😍

Getting really excited about the show

I am seriously considering Wednesday-Monday... Winters in Montreal are disgusting

Just changed the dates to match the rescheduled dates

The dates I saw prior when buying my ticket like 2 months ago ended mid December. So I don’t know 🤷‍♀️

so these dates are up on stubhub

Just purchased GA Pit 1 tickets for myself and my friend. Who all is going?

She was in an antique crib in those photos and it was the shadow of the design on the crib walls I guess they’d be called?

The text on the wall for those interested. SEX BY MADONNA PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEVEN MEISEL CURATED BY ANTHONY VACCARELLO ON ANTHONY VACCARELLO'S INITIATIVE, SAINT LAURENT IS REISSUING MADONNA'S SEX BOOK, THIRTY YEARS AFTER ITS FIRST PUBLICATION. TO MARK THIS OCCASION, THE HOUSE INVITES VISITORS TO WANDER FREELY THROUGH THE WORLD OF THE ICONIC BOOK, BROUGHT TO LIFE WITH PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM IT. CONCEIVED BY MADONNA, PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEVEN MEISEL AND ART- DIRECTED BY FABIEN BARON, SEXWAS AN INSTANT HIT WHEN IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 1992. ALREADY AT THE HEIGHT OF HER WORLDWIDE POPULARITY, MADONNA SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASED HER NEW ALBUM "EROTICA" AND THE SHOCKING BOOK, UNPRECEDENTED IN THE WORLD OF PUBLISHING AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY PACKAGED IN A THICK SILVERY-BLUE CELLOPHANE WRAPPER THAT MADE IT LOOK LIKE A HIGH-END ADULT MAGAZINE, THE BOOK HIT THE SCENE AS THE LATEST MARKETING COUP FROM A STAR IN TOTAL CONTROL OF HER OWN PUBLIC IMAGE, WHICH WAS UNHEARD OF AT THAT TIME. BEHIND THE PROVOCATIVE WRAPPING, READERS DISCOVERED WHAT ONLY FEW EXPECTED FROM A MAINSTREAM POPICON. ONCE AGAIN, MADONNA PUSHEDTHE ENVELOPE, SUBVERTED THE CODES OF THE CREATIVE ESTA BLISHMENT, AND BECAME THE UNEQUIVOCAL AMBASSADOR OF 1990'S UNDERGROUND CULTURE. UPON ITS RELEASE, MADONNA AND MEISEL'S SEX DEFIED ITS TIME AND BECAME AS MUCH A MARKER AS IT WAS A RE-VELATION. THE BOOK'S POWER CONTINUES TO BE FELT SEX REVISITS AN AVANT-GARDE AND PROVOCATIVE PUNK AESTHETIC, WHILE PRESENTING A FOCUSED CREATIVE VISION THAT STANDS THE TEST OF TIME. THIRTY YEARS AGO, THE BOOK'S SENSATIONAL MARKETING MADE IT EASY TO MISS THE BREADTH OF ITS IDEOLOGICAL AND AESTHETIC AMBITION. TO-DAY, WE CAN APPRECIATE ALL OF THE BOOKS REFERENCES: FROM THE LUSH SCENES OF LUCHINO VISCONTIS •THE DAMNED* THROUGH THE NUDIST UTOPIA OF THE INTERWAR PERIOD TO THE TRANSGRESSIVE PORTRAITS OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE AND THE LUSTFUL IMAGES OF HELMUT NEWTON; FROMTHE OPEN SPIRIT OF FANZINES TO THE CAMP ETHOS OF ANDY WARHOL'S SUPERSTARS. MADONNA WROTE SEX WITH THE NAME "MISTRESS DITA", IN HOMAGE TO THE GERMAN ACTRESS DITA PARLO, WHO MADE HER MARK ON THE EXPRESSIONIST CINEMA OF 1930'S GERMANY, WITH THE PSEUDONYM, MADONNA INTENDED TO CREATE AN ALTER EGO INHABITING THIS ULTRA-SEXUAL UNIVERSE, IN THE VEIN OF MARCEL DUCHAMP'S FROSE SELAWY. LIKE CINDY SHERMAN, WHO BLURS BOUNDARIES AND GENRES BY PUTTING HERSELF IN THE PICTURE, MADONNA DEMYSTIFIES FANTASIES AND EM BODIES DESIRES THAT, AT THE TIME, WERE DEEMED BARELY ACCEPTABLE BY SOCIETY. IT IS FASCINATING TO SEE HOW SEX ALIGNS WITH CONCERNS CENTRAL TO OUR TIME AND ITS COUNTERPOINT MOVEMENTS WHERE WHAT WAS HIDDEN BECOMES TRANSPARENT, TRANS. GRESSION BECOMES THE NORM. PROVOGATION BECOMES AFFIRMATION AND ELITISM IS REPLAGED WITH INCLUSMITY. THE EVOLUTION OFVALUES ALLOWS US TO GRASP THE FULLIRONY AND POWER OF THIS WORK, WHOSE IMAGES - UNDERAPPRECIATED AT THE TIME BECAUSE OF THEIR PROVOCATIVE NATURE FIND A NEW RESONANGE IN A CURRENT CONTEXT, WHILE THE DEBATE AROUND QUESTIONS OF GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION HAS SHIFTED, THE UNDETERRED INFLUENCE OF MADONNA'S BOOK REMAINS UNIVERSAL AND UNIQUE. SEX ECHOES OUR CHANGING SOCIETY AND QUESTIONS THE WAY WE LOOK AT OUR FANTASIES, DICTATED BY MEN IN THE PAST THREE DECADES LATER WE CELEBRATE WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION AND SELF-AFFIRMATION WITH A RENEWED DEFINITION OF SEXUAL FREEDOM.

It was definitely not used in the book at all. However was used in press for magazines. This is an outtake from the same session.

Another photo showing photos inside the exhibit. Look how good the quality is of the photos. I wish I was there to see them in person.

Yes look at my sealed Japan one that has barely been handled. The wrapper becomes dull when scuffed up etc..

Another photo