Lady Gaga refait Madonna.

Tuesday – November 03, 2009 – 5:38pm

Lady Gaga continued to turn heads at the 13th Annual Accessories Council Excellence Awards in NYC on Monday. This time it was for her lace face covering and her Madonna-inspired underwear-as-outerwear look.
The singer received the Stylemaker Award at the event.
Lady Gaga -- who's typical look often includes a hair bow, hat, sunglasses, gloves and even a couture neck brace -- is "well-appointed in accessories," ACE President Karen Giberson said in a statement Thursday.
"Just when you thought you saw everything in originality, there she is again," Giberson said. "People anticipate what she's going to wear and it's exciting to see accessories as such a meaningful part of someone's wardrobe."
Designer Marc Jacobs presented the singer with the award.
Other honorees at the ACE Awards included designer Diane von Furstenberg with an Accessory Visionary Award and Barbie as Fashion Icon.
Source: Us Weekly.

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.

Debbie Harry se transforme en Madonna.


From Sunday Girl to Material Girl: Debbie Harry morphs into Madonna
By Deirdre O'Brien 6/09/2008

You’d be forgiven for doing a double-take at these two iconic blonde rock stars… especially as there’s a 13-year age gap between them.
On the right is Madonna – still pretty fab at 50 – but on the left is Deborah Harry, looking sensational at 63.
Stepping out to the Fashion Rocks party in New York with her sleek platinum blonde bob and smooth and unlined face, the Blondie singer easily gives Madge a run for her money.
And while the younger Material Girl refuses to discuss rumours she’s gone under the knife to hold back the years, Deborah puts her youthful looks down to a most bizarre beauty treatment – sheep cell injections.
“I had these cells injected into me in my early thirties,” she said. “I read that the famous heart surgeon Christian Barnard was involved in a Swiss clinic researching fresh cell replacement.
“I went to have a course – from theembryos of black sheep. I was the youngest ever to have it. Whether it lasted that long, I don’t know. But I feel great.”
And you look it too, Debs!

Source: Mirror.
 

Debbie Harry and Madonna

Photo: RETNA/CORBIS.

Madonna et Barbie.


Fifty years of blonde ambition: To celebrate their birthdays, we reveal the weird and wacky parallels  between Madonna and Barbie
Last updated at 12:58 AM on 26th July 2008
By Daniela Soave

One's small, tacky and comes in lots of different outfits  -  the other's Barbie. As Madonna and the world's favourite doll both hit their half century, we reveal the weird similarities between two hard-nosed material girls.

 

- BARBIE
HEIGHT 111/ 2in
BUST 43/ 4in
WAIST 3in
HIPS 31/ 4in
DATE OF BIRTH Barbie was registered at the US Patent Office in June 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH The fictitious Willows, Wisconsin
NATURAL HAIR COLOUR The first Barbie came as blonde or brunette, but, like Madonna, Barbie is a blonde at heart whatever the colour of her roots
EYES Blue. From 1958-1971 she adopted demure sideways glance, but now Barbie looks you straight in the eye. That's empowerment for you.

- MADONNA
HEIGHT 5ft 4in
BUST 36in
WAIST 24in
HIPS 34in
DATE OF BIRTH 16 August, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Bay City, Michigan
WEIGHT Generally, about 8st 8lb, although she drops to 7st 12lb when she's on tour
NATURAL HAIR COLOUR Brown
EYES Blue

"FACT! If Barbie was life-size she'd measure 36-18-33, stand 5ft 9in and weigh 7st 12lb - 35lb underweight for a woman that height"

BEGINNINGS

BARBARA MILLICENT ROBERTS was named after the daughter of American creator Ruth Handler (her other child, a son, was called Ken).
PARENTS George and Margaret, according to a series of novels published by Random House in the 1960s about Barbie and her family.
SIBLINGS Skipper, Tutti, Todd, Stacie, Kelly, Krissy  -  although there's a Desperate Housewivesstyle mystery surrounding the disappearances of Tutti, Todd and Stacie.
EDUCATION: Willows High School and Manhattan International High School.
FIRST OFFICIAL APPEARANCE American International Toy Fair, New York, 9 March 1959.

MADONNA LOUISE CICCONE
PARENTS Silvio, a design engineer for General Motors, and Madonna Louise, a housewife (died of cancer in 1963).
SIBLINGS Anthony, Martin, Paula, Christopher, Melanie (Madonna is the third child), plus half-siblings Jennifer and Mario from her father's second marriage to Joan Gustafson.
EDUCATION Rochester Adams High School, then the University of Michigan, where she won a dance scholarship.
FIRST OFFICIAL APPEARANCE Made her debut at Danceteria, New York, in 1982, performing her first single Everybody.

INFLUENCES

BARBIE
She may be pink, but Barbie's origins are a lot darker. Her creator, Ruth Handler, the wife of Mattel Toys' co-founder, modelled her on a German doll bought on a European holiday in 1956. The 'Bild Lilli' toy, based on a newspaper cartoon strip, was a 'sultry, gold-digging prostitute'. Lilli was originally sold to adults, but she became popular with children, who enjoyed dressing her up. Handler thought it important to a girl's self-esteem that she play with an adult doll with breasts, distinguishing the toy from the baby dolls favoured by children until then  -  but not all parents approved of Barbie's magnificent cleavage, which was remodelled several times.

MADONNA
In her early career, she borrowed influences from cinematic icons  -  the blonde bombshell look of Marilyn Monroe (as in her Material Girl video), the gamine charm of Jean Seberg in the movie Breathless (as in the video for Cherish) and the glamour of Marlene Dietrich (Vogue). Musically, she lists The Carpenters and Nancy Sinatra as early influences. Her greatest strength, however, is her knack of tapping into whatever trend is about to become mainstream before it reaches tipping point.

STYLE

BARBIE
Like Madonna, Barbie has more than a few designer pieces in her wardrobe, including outfits by Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang and Yves Saint Laurent. Early on in her career she was already on the reinvention path: in 1963, Fashion Queen Barbie debuted with three wigs, and, by 1970, way ahead of Madonna, along came a bendy, supple Barbie, complete with flexible elbows, knees and ankles and swivelling waist, arms, hands and legs. And, like Madonna, Barbie has reinterpreted the style of Hollywood icons, including Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn and Monroe. By 1987, Barbie's concert tour outfits bore a striking similarity to Madonna's.

MADONNA
Madonna prides herself on being a true chameleon. One minute she's a peroxide blonde dominatrix, the next a geisha cowgirl or demure lady of the manor in twinset and pearls. And designers love her for it. Those who have created looks for her include Jean-Paul Gaultier (conical bras), Dolce&Gabbana and Stella McCartney. These days she veers between raunch for promotional purposes and her yummy mummy guise out in public. M by Madonna, her clothes collection for H&M in 2007, divided fashionistas: some called it dull, while others lauded it as classic.

FAMILY

BARBIE
HUSBANDS Barbie may have had a bridal dress designed by Vera Wang, but she is still single.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS Ken Carson. They began dating in 1961, when the Ken doll was introduced, and have had an on-off relationship ever since.
CHILDREN None.

MADONNA
HUSBANDS Sean Penn, married 1985  -  divorced 1989. Guy Ritchie, married 2000.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS Warren Beatty, 1989-1990. Carlos Leon, 1994-97. She also dated Englishman Andy Bird for 18 months before she met Guy Ritchie, and has been associated with basketball player Dennis Rodman, Prince and JFK Jr.
CHILDREN Lourdes Ciccone Leon, born 1996. Rocco Ritchie, born 2000. David Banda, born 2005, adoption finalised 2008.

CAREER

BARBIE
From McDonald's cashier to US president, Barbie's career has been even more colourful than Madonna's. Yes, she's been a rock star and a fashion designer, but she's also succeeded as a doctor, dentist, nurse, surgeon and vet. She's been an army officer and an air force pilot, an astronaut and an air hostess. She's even qualified as a paleontologist. More than a billion Barbie dolls have been sold worldwide in more than 150 countries, generating sales of more than £90 million. But Barbie has her detractors: even in America, where there's a protest group named the Barbie Liberation Organization that challenges gender-stereotyping in the toy industry, and in Montpelier, Vermont, she has been banned because she represents two of the worst evils  -  commercialism and sexism. In 2003, Barbie's provocative clothing was found offensive to Islam in Saudi Arabia.

MADONNA
Singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, fashion designer and author, Madonna is the world's top-earning female singer, having sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. She sang the Oscar-winning You Must Love Me from the Evita soundtrack, has picked up seven Grammys and won a Best Actress Golden Globe for Evita. This year, Madge surpassed Elvis as the artist with the most US top ten hits ever, and she has had more UK number one singles than any other female solo artist. In 1989, Pepsi, who had entered into a £2.5 million multi-year endorsement with her, pulled the plug when her video for Like A Prayer caused outrage. She got to keep the cash. Although there is a 13ft-tall statue of Madonna in Pacentro, Italy, the town of her ancestors, the singer is something of a religious iconoclast and has clashed with the Pope, who has urged Italians to boycott her tours, as well as the Federation of Jewish Churches in Russia and rabbis in Israel.

"FACT! Madonna has graced the cover of Vanity Fair magazine more than any other person. To date she has boasts ten covers to her name"

THE FUTURE

BARBIE
She saw off Sindy in the 1970s and has reinvented herself more times than Madonna ever will, but, since 2001, she has faced serious competition from the Bratz range of dolls: in 2004 Bratz overtook Barbie in the UK, and, by 2005, sales of Barbie had dropped by 30 per cent in America and 20 per cent elsewhere. Is Barbie about to face her swan song?

MADONNA
Amid rumours that her marriage to Guy Ritchie is about to expire and she is moving back to the US, Madonna prepares not only for her 50th birthday but the Sticky & Sweet world tour to promote her latest disc, Hard Candy.

Material Girls is on today on BBC Radio 4 at  10.30am. You can also hear it at any time over the next week at www.bbc.co.uk/radio
 

Source: Mail Online.
 

L'âge et le stress ont-ils commencé une attaque choquante sur le visage de Madonna?


By David Wilkes
Last updated at 11:54 AM on 28th July 2008

Dressed up to the nines and wearing plenty of make-up, Madonna still manages to look pretty sensational for a woman rapidly approaching her half century.
But bare-faced and in short sleeves, she reveals some of the gruelling health and beauty regime behind the glamour.
Madonna, seen holding hands with her daughter Lourdes as they left a Kabbalah centre in New York, wore a T-shirt which exposed the veins standing out on arms subjected to endless workouts.
Her swollen face renewed speculation that she is relying on more than yoga, the gym and a macrobiotic diet to ward off the effects of ageing.
She has remained enigmatic on the subject of cosmetic surgery, saying: 'I am certainly not against plastic surgery; however, I am absolutely against having to discuss it.'
Harley Street plastic surgeon Angelica Kavouni said: 'In my opinion, it is likely she has had filler in her cheeks because they are so full. There is no loose skin at the jawline which is also extremely unusual for someone her age. Typically, that is something we achieve through a lower facelift.
Nor does she have any loose skin around her eyes, which again is unusual.
'She always had nice eyes and high cheekbones, so if anything has been done I think she's trying to enhance her existing good parts and had some areas tightened.'
Madonna is 50 on August 16. Earlier this year a member of her circle told the Daily Mail: 'She's been having work done since her 30s, but in the past year she's really stepped it up, which is worrying.'

Source: Mail Online.
 

The singer's arms appeared too big for her gaunt frame as she arrived at a Kabbalah meeting,
with popping veins and muscles as startling proof that her workout regime may be too much.




Madonna cuts a sullen figure as she leaves the religious centre with daughter Lourdes.




Madonna donned a pair of high heel trainers as she walked the New York streets.

Madonna et son pantalon Gucci.

French magazine / Magazine français "ELLE".
 

Madonna et Lindsay Lohan dans un journal américain.

"New York Post"

New York POST, Saturday Jan. 19  
Lindsay Trades Black for White
Posted Fri. Jan. 18, 2008 1:33pm by Jarett Wieselman

We were starting to think that Lindsay Lohan didn't own anything but black clothes, but thankfully she ditched the dark duds yesterday in favor of a cheerier all-white ensemble. Apparently monochromatically dressing is so 2008.
But when we giveth we also taketh away because these lace leggings are inexcusable! Sure Madonna rocked them hard-core, but that was in 1985. And try as she might — naughty photos, emotional music, ever-changing hair color — you Lindsay, are no Madonna... even if your clothes are.

French magazine "Closer".

Madonna et son nez.

Magazine français "Closer".