Pre-production: Costume Designer's first drafts

Gautlier's sketches for the Blond Ambition Tour are a classic. What I couldn't even dream of seeing, though, was the first sketches he did, prior to those. Madonna's Scrapbook just gave me this amazing revelation: six drawings from Gaultier's team, probably for what would be the Like A Prayer World Tour, since M is portrayed with dark hair - more than that, with Like a Prayer video hairdo.

According to Scrapbook's reader Pheel, they were revealed in Gaultier's interview for Libération, in the July 1990 issue:

«She wears a bathrobe because he wanted her to take a shower on stage (which she replaced by the masturbation scene). On the back of the bathrobe there was a tag "Taste Heaven". In this interview, he talked about the La Isla Bonita costumes and how at the last minute he had to redo all the costumes because from when he took Madonna's measurments to the time she was about to start the tour, she had lost a lot of weight and his team was forced to go to L.A., to resize everything.»

Oh-my-god...

Thank you Pheel, thank you Pud!