It's Oscar night! (Part 5)

March 23, 1998
Taking Pre-Raphaelite glow and cutting-edge European fashion into the red carpet.

Dressed by Olivier Theyskens. Brilliant.

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«What a shocker...»

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70th Academy Awards Vanity Fair party

MG ICON

What a cool business project. Lola’s sense of style is undeniable – it’s not hard to guess why. Here are some of my favorite bits of M’s recent interview with Alicia Quarles (The Associated Press) in New York:

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Lola has been bothering me for ages about designing clothes. [Stella McCartney] started giving Lola fabrics and inviting her into her showroom and asking her opinion on things, giving her sketch books and stuff like that. Stella always pushed her.

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Lola has been around all of the shoots I have done and all of the campaigns I have done. She is always hanging out backstage. The last two tours I have done, she has been working in the wardrobe department. On this last tour she dressed all of the dancers.

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[Lola] reminds me of me when I was younger. She just goes for it and tries different things. It doesn’t look like she thought too much about it. That is how I used to be, but after years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn’t.

MG ICON is an affordable juniors’ clothing line, designed by Madonna and Lola. It includes jeans, shoes, fingerless gloves, necklaces and other accessories. Many of the pieces are inspired by Madonna and Lola’s dance roots. It debuts at Macy’s this fall.

From retro to haute couture

Fashion photography has always been one of Madonna's strongest and most enduring medium, going back even to the "pre-Madonna" days - in 1980, she was already modelling retro couture for The Village Voice.

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But it wasn't until March 1995 that Madonna the Icon entered the world of fashion advertising. The campaign was for Versace's haute couture collection, exquisitelly captured by Steven Meisel.

One of the amazing outtakes that surfaced a few months ago was from this photoshoot.

Check out the complete session Through The Looking Glass.
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