Fashion icons throughout history: the queen of pop and her relationship with aesthetics

Earlier we discussed the story of a princess, Lady Di, this week we will continue to talk about reigns, but not to use, we will talk about the queen of pop.

Madonna’s story began in 1978 when she traveled to New York. She tells herself that arrived in the Big Apple “with $35 and a dream””, in this city she worked as a waitress, dancer, model before she became the singer we know today. Years earlier, he began his musical preparation in piano lessons, which he turned into ballet, and began his professional career thanks to a scholarship to study dance at the University of Michigan, which he left to move to New York. Later, as a singer and dancer for Patrick Hernandez, she met the musician Dal Gilroy, with whom she began a relationship and formed the band The Breakfast Club. In the 80s he left the band and formed another called Emmywith Stephen Bray, then his partner, in this, he started composing and it was right after He started his career as a soloist. The singer caught the eye of music producer Mark Kamins, who was in charge of introducing her to the executives of Sire Records, with whom she signed a contract. and released Everybody in 1982 and Burning Up in 1983, both of which were successful and led Madonna to make her first album in 1983.

A muse of designers, photographers and stylists, the singer has crossed different aesthetics defined by her albums and reinvented herself to remain a fashion icon throughout her musical career. The anger it caused in the beginning was so great that it managed to blur the line between music and fashion. Another of his industry achievements was coining the term “Madonna-wannabe”, which defined the thousands of young people who were inspired by her to dress. Cross-shaped earrings, fluorescent bracelets, white lace stockings cut at the ankles, and black tube skirts were part of the look predominant in the 1980s because of its influence.

Madonna’s speech as a singer and when it comes to dressing revolves around politics, sex, religion and gender. These themes bounded her way of dressing, which went through different stages including the inspiration of the femme fatale, punk-romantic, the style of glam Queen, androgynous, dominatrix, vintage gangster… her style went through different stages, some even the opposite, but all with something in common: their intention to show or tell something through fashion.

His evolution musically was also an evolution of his style, as can be seen in his album “Reinvention world tour”, where his sexual facet took on a more vindictive character against politics. He addressed themes related to dictatorship, war or poverty through music videos and his wardrobe with looks such as the camouflage print jacket with medals in a sarcastic tone.

One of the designer names that resonates most in Madonna’s stylistic universe is that of Jean-Paul Gaultier, creator of the pink conical corset she originally wore in the World Tour Blonde Ambition 1990. Together with the creator, Madonna revolutionized the ideal of femininity at the end of the 20th century and changed the way of looking at gender through design. Another company he worked with the most was Dolce & Gabbana, from 1991 when he dressed her for the premiere from his documentary “In Bed with Madonna”. In 1993 they designed the costumes for the Girlie Show Tour and in 2010, the singer starred in the summer campaign inspired by Italian films of the mid-20th century. The Versace house has also collaborated with the artist numerous times, first as a muse for Gianni Versace and after his death for Donatella, who said she was one of the true icons of her company. But also for renowned companies such as Givenchy, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Prada or Cartier.

Today’s singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman channeled different ways of thinking and conveyed them with her music and style like no one had ever done before, achieving the crown of pop queen.