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This is such a cool read (if you haven't read it yet). Check out all the photos at the link if interested. One is included below...
Madonna's former costumer reveals the backstory for 1 of her most iconic looks
Madonna's former costumer opened up about working with one of the most influential and controversial pop stars of all time.
Marlene Stewart designed some infamous outfits for the music videos and live performances of Madonna, and she revealed the backstory for one of the pop star's most iconic looks ever.
"Well, when I started working with her, I mean, it was really an easy match because it was like playing dress up," Stewart told TODAY ahead of the 2020 Video Music Awards on Sunday night. "We had a great time. She's really easy to work with because she really loves clothes. She knows her body. and that's part of her look."
Stewart, who started her career in fashion by working in the garment industry, designed for the pop star from approximately 1984 to 1992 before later working more heavily in the film industry.
"She'll give you the time that you need for fittings," Stewart said of their working relationship. "So the most important thing for a costume designer is to have someone that participates and really wants to be there. And now many years later, we can look back and know that she understood the power of her look. So she gave it 100 percent or 1,000 percent of her attention."
Stewart ended up winning awards for the costumes she created in Madonna's video for "Material Girl," which was inspired by Marilyn Monroe's pink gown during her performance of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the 1953 film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” But Stewart also designed another key look in the history of Madonna's wardrobe: her costume for the 1990 VMAs performance of "Vogue."
"MTV was made for Madonna and Madonna was made for MTV."
"We know historically that the French were the biggest posers and it's the whole idea of voguing and posing," Stewart explained of her inspiration for the costume. "So it was the perfect transition. I suggested for this kind of French court situation with Marie Antoinette. It's really one of the origins, right? All they did was, 'Strike a pose.'"
When asked if it was her idea, she said it was, before adding, "I think one always has to say it's a collaboration. I would never say anything was completely mine. Every time you work with an artist, you work on something together."
"It's a team effort, You can't do anything by yourself"
When asked whether Madonna was difficult to work with, Stewart said that wasn't the case for her. She worked with the pop star for eight years, also designing costumes for other influential music videos, including "Like a Prayer" and "Open Your Heart."
"I don't know if I would use the word 'easygoing,'" Stewart added. "I think she has really high standards and she knew what she wanted and that's all fine. It's better to have someone that knows what they want and what they like than someone who doesn't know what they like or what. That's actually difficult. You can work with someone that knows what they actually like. You want someone that actually has an opinion; otherwise you waste a lot of time."
"I think that she was in a super creative space at that time. That was really the origin story, if you will, and creating really special things ourselves. She didn't want designer works that she was an advertisement for. It was about her being an original."
Considering that some of her designs, including Madonna's black slip dress in "Like a Prayer," were deemed controversial at the time, Stewart explained she never gave the blowback much credence.
"I didn't take it super seriously. For some people, it was very jarring and jolting and provocative, but I kind of have a neutral feeling about it because some people maybe that were very religious, took it to heart and were insulted."
"She pushed the boundaries like any artist would do."
"I saw it as entertainment. You can say that she's making a political statement or that creating controversy is the thing that Madonna does, but she always just changed it up. She pushed the boundaries like any artist would do."
Stewart looks back and acknowledges that it was a great time to be working in music videos, because music videos really dictated so much of culture.
"It was a time when videos, even though it was the beginning, it was also sort of the peak time for MTV those few years," she said. "We really created trends all around the world and it really was the beginning of a movement. So it was an incredible opportunity to be there at that time and have those experiences."
"MTV was made for Madonna and Madonna was made for MTV."

Oh you better drag them to hell and back. I couldn't have said it better myself. 
This thread and topic is absolutely ridiculous. 

THIS.
Reminds me of the posting of that picture of Starrah on her insta during the Madame X sessions, and the response from some of the fanbase... shameful. UTTERLY shameful.
 

THIS.
Reminds me of the posting of that picture of Starrah on her insta during the Madame X sessions, and the response from some of the fanbase... shameful. UTTERLY shameful.
 

THIS.
Reminds me of the posting of that picture of Starrah on her insta during the Madame X sessions, and the response from some of the fanbase... shameful. UTTERLY shameful.
 

THIS.
Reminds me of the posting of that picture of Starrah on her insta during the Madame X sessions, and the response from some of the fanbase... shameful. UTTERLY shameful.
 

During her quarantine diaries, she was playing film scores, jazz and Nina Simone... 
she listens to a little of everything. Isn't that clear by now? 

OMG I'm sorry, but I just can't picture Madonna in such a stupid scenario where she feels like a victim because of the music playing at her own party.

These threads about NOTHING man, lol, a hot mess.... but then again, people LOVE to start pointless threads about her hair color, her butt, her cheeks...... now I guess we're starting threads so we can guess how sad or how happy M is at her own parties. LOLLLLLLL.

She always listened to rap. In the 90's she was heavily into Cypress Hill & Public Enemy (i think there's a video of her training to Public enemy for A League Of Their Own). Before being famous she was hanging out at the Roxy and Negril where Hip Hop was born. She wanted Run DMC to open for her for the Virgin tour (but got Beastie Boys instead because Simmons & Rubin asked a lot of money for DMC and the Beasties were cheap). In France she had I AM open for her for Blond Ambition in Paris (it was horrible). Madonna has always been heavily into rap & Hip Hop, it's not like they are forcing her to listen to it or that she's discovering it (she was listening to it before most of the people surrounding her were born).
And like Blue Jean said it's perfectly normal to listen to dancehall in Jamaica.

whewwww the anti-blackness 

So many music genres have repetitive elements, dance music for instance, edm in general there's SO MUCH crap in those genres. Yet no one turns their nose up towards those clean and classy genres like they do with rap and trap. There's something so off about it... not at you personally, but I see this A LOT in this fandom. It's like she couldn't POSSIBLY like that kind of music... the monocles hitting the floor ... the outrage... lmao

Don't forget she loves Gregorian Chant too

Did you make this thread to talk about your distaste for rap and trap and the music you find to be good  

I love this tweet
 

That's just the sound that's popular with most young people right now. It's everywhere. That's it. Not much more serious than that.

A post in IG is about 3% of Madonna's daylife. It does'nt mean that's the only thing she's listening to.
Also if that's the case that's her personal taste too. Madonna was always into soul, funk, R&B. From Detroit to Jackson, Prince...
I would be more surprise is she was playing Ariana Grande tbh

Theees no doubt there’s a large problem of misogyny in the gay male community, but I don’t think it’s even conscious a lot of the time... so it needs pointing out. 
Even the way some of us talk about how M should be doing this should be doing that at times almost embodies a sense of ownership. We love you but only when you do what we want. 
Just ask Charli XCX and her douche bag fans. 
but the lines go both ways. I’ve been sexually harassed  more times than I can count in a gay club by straight women. 
Drunk thinking it’s ok to grab my dick or my ass. Talking to and about me like I’m a piece of meat. Asking me all sorts of questions about my sex life. 
It literally happened this weekend at a house party with women who’ve been around gay men all their life. It was ... weird. 
There’s problems on all sides ... and while we fight amongst ourselves those straight men keep winning.
...but still we should all do better. 

That's just the sound that's popular with most young people right now. It's everywhere. That's it. Not much more serious than that.

Actually, the other poster kind of did.

What misogyny?  Gay men are WAY more accepting.of powerful women than straight men and even other women
 
If gay men are so misogynistic than why are all the murders rapes, kidnappings and beatings of women done by.... straight men?
 
Hell, statistics show that women are more likely to assault a gay man (which is rare) than a gay man is to assault a woman (which is rarer)

There are many reasons for this, it's harder for men be taken seriously as "real men" if they experiment or are bisexual because of how society sees masculinity. And also people are paranoid of bisexual partners because there's more competition. 
Bisexual people are usually not taken seriously, even in the gay community. It's like they should pick a side or they aren't being real. It happens to pansexuals as well. 

These are some gross, disgusting generalizations.
Every group has their fair share of assholes, but to paint the whole lot that way...not cool. I'm sure if someone did the same with bisexual men y'all wouldn't like it so much...
In fact, that first remark is the exact kind that straight people have made of us for centuries - "society's evil predators". I mean, really? Do you know much work we've had to do to dispel that mentality, all the while trying to find our own sexual liberation?
Yeah, some gay folks are dismissive and discriminatory. As are bisexuals, lesbians, and straight folk. And no doubt gay men have also projected society's misogyny on to women, particularly their female icons like Madonna. But there's been as many, if not probably more, of us who have gone to bat for women long before it was ever cool. The difference is we don't hold the societal power straight people, particularly straight men, have when it comes to the power of sexism/misogyny. Truly, you want to talk about the "worst", look at the power and history of straight men...
 

She's straight but never cared if people thought she was bisexual or gay
 
It's a million times easier for a female to be bisexual or gay in our culture than a male is, hell even some women who call themselves liberal, won't go anywhere near a bisexual male and won't date them
 
And of course all straight guys love seeing women together
 
Women, like Madonna, have benefited tremendously from the priveledge and double standard, let's be honest here

So here's The Girlie Show (Fukuoka Instrumental).

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Nailed it.
I find it highly transparent that moments of mistake and weakness are when when some folks - particularly a certain subset of fans (and some of them even in the media) - decide to let out what really are long-held, pent-up resentments about her not being the artist or celebrity they think she should be...and even more specifically, to be 'the Madonna' that they fell in love with at what time they deemed to be her "peak"...with most fans that's ROL Madonna or Confessions Madonna. Newsflash, not all fans worship those eras as if they're infallible. Or that they even represent the totality of who Madonna is. No single era does.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think a lot of fans are dealing with seeing their icon as not infallible. As human. As messy. Sometimes contradictory. Sometimes confusing. And now, with age added, and no longer with massive commercial success to buffer it all. And thus, a great deal of confirmation biases and vulnerabilities in us fans are being brought out in ways they weren't before, and projected back onto her.
As I always say, hit the Google Earth button and never forget the bigger picture.