ryan Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 MATTRESS!!!! PLEASE! do a hair history thread! There are soooo many questions that need to be answered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted April 26, 2010 Share Posted April 26, 2010 MATTRESS!!!! PLEASE! do a hair history thread! There are soooo many questions that need to be answered! I was about to say that... I thought Pud might have one on the Scrapbook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted April 30, 2010 Author Share Posted April 30, 2010 MATTRESS!!!! PLEASE! do a hair history thread! There are soooo many questions that need to be answered! Don't think I haven't considered it. I don't have time right now, but there are certainly enough resources here prepared to answer any pressing hair inquiries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted May 1, 2010 Author Share Posted May 1, 2010 Creamy "Vogue" goodness from the Melissa Crowe auction. I'm considering engaging in an all out bidding war for the first one... Surreal. We've never seen this particular look in color before. Or this much of the outfit. Despite the best efforts of the seller to obscure her ensemble, it looks to be a giant, breast-gobbling lily pad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Isn't it a Jade, assymetrical-bandeau dress? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted May 2, 2010 Author Share Posted May 2, 2010 Isn't it a Jade, assymetrical-bandeau dress? I'm not gay enough to comprehend that. Which speaks volumes in a thread dedicated to Madonna's "Vogue". I'm going to need a visual to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 Isn't the Vogue costume and hairstyle there similar to Life magazine? She often did throwbacks of her own looks, and I'm sure I was reminded of earlier Madonna Monroe inspired looks in "Vogue" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 I'm not gay enough to comprehend that. Which speaks volumes in a thread dedicated to Madonna's "Vogue". I'm going to need a visual to work with. Oh God. I am THE shittest person with google. I'll try. That neckline, but with a certain strap that somewhat resembles bikini fastenings. It's hard to explain. But basically it's a single assymetrical strap with an adjustable fastening. Either clip or a clip and slide/button fix. This kind of colour, but obviously flat and a lot muddier. I'm guessing the fabric was a heavy wool/felt/velvet. I'm guessing it looked very costume and 40s/50s theatrical so that would make sense. They probably decided it was too messy to be shot and just left it at what mattered most. The face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 ^ Jennifer Connelly looks kinda mannish there, but anotastic Love that shade of green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Question does Vogue (the dance's name) come from the Polari term vogue meaning fire, smoke, cigarette? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 The dance was named for the magazine. The snap posing mocks models in still fashion photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SexPistol Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 I love this backstage footage from the BA tour. I wish there was even more of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pabl0114 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 (based on a previous post that I can't be arsed going back and quoting;) It's like Vogue SHOULDN'T be so great, it's just a pop song, some people argue fairly that it's a bit camp and/or dated. BUT SOMEHOW IT TRANSCENDS IT ALL. Come on. Vogue vogue vogue This breaks it down nicely: 3. Madonna, "Vogue" (1990). Is it a subversive gesture—an "I told you" of sorts—that "Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister?" follows "Is Paris Burning?" in bell hooks's 1992 collection of essays Black Looks: Race and Representation? hooks may or may not understand Madonna but she definitely understood the sham of voguing. She wrote: "In many ways [Paris Is Burning] was a graphic documentary portrait of the way in which colonized black people (in this case black gay brothers, some of whom were drag queens) worship at the throne of whiteness, even when such worship demands that we live in perpetual self-hate, steal, lie, go hungry, and even die in its pursuit." hooks's problem with Jennie Livingston and Madonna is the same: their "interest in, and appropriation of, black culture as yet another sign of their radical chic." For hooks, Armond White, or any person of color who struggles not to be seduced away from their race by what hooks describes as a "powerful colonizing whiteness," Madonna's appropriation of nonwhiteness isn't appreciative so much as fixative and fetishistic (see videos for "Secret" and "La Isla Bonita"). "I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world," Madonna once said. This bald-faced blond ambition helped her achieve worldwide pop domination but it's also what's earned her a legion of naysayers. Madonna has repeatedly mined the sacred turf of nonwhite culture for trends to incorporate into the spectacle of her perpetual reinvention. But let's give the bitch credit where credit is due. Power-hungry as she may be (or was, as her recent dance floor confessions would have us believe), Madonna is not stupid. "Vogue" may not be the greatest dance song of all time, but it's certainly the chintziest and brainiest of all. I'd argue that it understands the culture that spawned the ritualized play of voguing more critically than Paris Is Burning, throwing shade at Livingston by liberally replicating the very same part of MFSB's "Love Is the Message" that appears in the film. At the very least, the song nails the complicated and contradictory messages of voguing. hooks says, "Livingston does not oppose the way hegemonic whiteness 'represents' blackness, but rather assumes an imperial overseeing position that is in no way progressive or counter-hegemonic." She might say the same thing about Madonna's song and video, which White decried in The City Sun in 1990 for the way "Madonna and her voguers are vamping for class approval." But that's exactly why voguers "pose": for social acceptance. "It makes no difference if you're black or white," belts Madonna; one could say she recognizes the Latino roots of voguing ignored by White and hooks. Madonna's dance floor, like the arena of the drag ball, has the atmosphere of a sports event, a place of social communion. The thrill of voguing for Black and Latino queens is trying to pass for white. Madonna understands this "racial pathology," to quote White, as a form of "going with the flow" compliance. "Beauty is where you find it," she sings, counteracting the self-denying fantasy voguing encourages—the song could be a precursor to Celeda's "Be Yourself." Madonna may find beauty in the Hollywood icons of the past but she understands the feelings of negation their stardom often disguised. Shep Pettibone, a white boy whose roots were in house and hip-hop, helps stress this idea with his gussied-up house beats; he and Madonna recognize voguing for the artifice that it is. This is a point White doesn't get when he criticizes Madonna's white-fixated roll-call of stars, forgetting that Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino and that her superstar status in white-bread Hollywood was predicated on her ability to give good face. from here http://slantmagazine.com/music/feature/100-greatest-dance-songs/206/page_10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I love Vogue. Everything about it. As Linda Evangelista said: 'We don't DO Vogue, we ARE Vogue.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 Entertainment Weekly, again, in its "20 Years Ago This Week..." feature included Madonna. In the May 1 edition, the sidebar article was: MADONNA's "VOGUE" HITS NO. 1 Leave it to Madonna to turn a hip new dance, at the time found only behind NYC's most exclusive velvet ropes, into a radio juggernaut. "Vogue" kicked off Madge's second decade of pop royalty, shotting to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 on May 19, 1990. The smash's lyrics cleverly name-checked golden-age celebs ('greta Garbo and Monroe/Dietrich and Dimmagio") while suggesting that anyone (even you!) could be glamorous, provided you had the right moves on the club floor. Two decades later, fans around the world- including, hilariously, Glee's Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch)- are still striking a pose.- Simon Vozick-Levinson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLVC82 Posted May 22, 2010 Share Posted May 22, 2010 MADONNATRIBE POSTED THIS NEVER BEFORE SEEN BACKSTAGE PICTURE OF MADONNA AT THE MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 1990! http://www.madonnatribe.com/i_press_28/the_costume_designer_001.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattress Posted August 8, 2010 Author Share Posted August 8, 2010 And now, believe it or not, we are running 20 years parallel with the end of Blond Ambition. The final show (Nice, France) was broadcast live on HBO, August 5, 1990. The Pre-show: On December 13, 1990, Pioneer, sponsor of Blond Ambition in the wake of the Pepsi brouhaha, released this performance exclusively on their laserdisc home video format. It won a Grammy (Madonna's first) for Best Long Form Video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 lol @ how airbrushed that laserdisc cover is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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