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[BREAKING NEWS] ’Simply Madonna: Materials of the Girl’: Madonna's clothing exhibition to open next year in London.
Category: Exhibition.

BREAKING NEWS - As you know, so much as been told about a Madonna clothing exhibition, and then suddently nothing more has been told.

Today a press release revealed that a collection of Madonna’s outfits are going on display in an exhibition in London next year. The exhibition is called ’Simply Madonna: Materials of the Girl’ and opens at the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, east London, on February 21 next year and runs to March 22. The show will feature 300 items spanning Madonna’s career.

Anyway, this is not the official Madonna's clothing exhibition that Madonna herself talked about. DrownedMadonna.com talked with Marquee Capital, and they said that "Neither Madonna nor her management are in any way associated with Marquee Capital, its subsidiaries or affiliates, and no endorsement, sponsorship or financial link should be implied between Madonna and 'Simply Madonna'."

"This is clearly mentioned in our press release and is also note on the mirco site at the botton of the page," Marquee Capital told DrownedMadonna.com. "Our exhibition is a private exhibition, but will be open to general public. All details will be available on our mico site soon."

Highlights of the exhibition will include her iconic pink Material Girl dress, which she wore in the video to her 1985 hit, and the gown she wore playing Argentinian heroine Evita in the 1996 movie.

The raunchy black satin tasselled bustier that she wore in the video to ’Open Your Heart’ will also go on show, as will the wedding gown she wore for her ’Like a Virgin’ tour and the baseball outfit she wore in the 1992 film A League of their Own. Unfortunately the Jean Paul Gaultier cone-breasted bustier worn on Madonna’s Blonde Ambition tour 18 years ago is not part of the collection.

As well as concert outfits and other clothing, photographs and film props will also go on public view.

The items are in a private collection belonging to Marquee Capital, a celebrity memorabilia investment company, which is expected to auction the pieces following the show.

A spokesman for the Truman Brewery gallery described it as "a treasure trove of over 300 personal items brought together for the first time."

Exhibition Curator Ted Owen said: "This is an unprecedented collection of Madonna memorabilia, that represents every stage of her glittering career.

"These are museum-quality pieces – but they will be presented in-keeping with the glamour and sense of theatre that the queen of pop has made her trademark – and Madonna fans should be very excited indeed." 

All details here: http://www.marqueecapital.com.

Additional news on ''Vanity Fair: The Portraits'' exhibition.
Category: Exhibition.

London's National Portrait Gallery gave Drowned Madonna additional news regarding the upcoming "Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008" exhibition.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, priced £25 paperback. Including reproductions of all works shown in the exhibition, the catalogue features a number of additional images as well as essays on the history of Vanity Fair’s commissioning of photographs by celebrated journalist and Vanity Fair contributor, Christopher Hitchens, David Friend and Terence Pepper. The catalogue will be sold exclusively at the National Portrait Gallery and at the tour venues.

TOUR
Vanity Fair Portraits will tour to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (14 June – 21 September 2008); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles / LACMA (26 October 2008 – 1 March 2009); and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia (May – August 2009).

VANITY FAIR: THE PORTRAITS – ANNIVERSARY PUBLICATION
The National Portrait Gallery will be publishing a companion volume - Vanity Fair: The Portraits - to celebrate the 25th and 95th anniversaries of the magazine. Featuring over 350 illustrations, this major hardback title will be launched in the book trade in Autumn 2008 to coincide with the opening of the Vanity Fair Portraits exhibition at LACMA. Harry N. Abrams, America’s leading art and illustrated books’ publisher, will distribute the title in North America and Canada.

Vanity Fair photographs to go on display in Lodon.
Category: Exhibition.

Famous images from the pages of Vanity Fair magazine are to go on display at the National Portrait Gallery.

From Virginia Woolf to a naked and heavily pregnant Demi Moore, the exhibition’s 150 photographs represent "an essential who’s who of the past hundred years".

Vanity Fair was first published from 1913-1936 and then folded, a victim of the Great Depression. It was revived in 1983 and continues today.

The exhibition includes photographs from both periods.

The early years are represented by leading figures of the Jazz Age - among them Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Noel Coward, Jean Harlow and Gloria Swanson.

Stars from the modern era include Sir Mick Jagger and Madonna.

Caught on camera: This picture of Mick Jagger, Madonna
& Tony Curtis is among the images to go on display

Famous covers will also be on display, including last year’s ’Hollywood issue’ which featured a naked Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley alongside designer Tom Ford.

The picture was the work of celebrated photographer Annie Leibovitz, a Vanity Fair regular.

Leibovitz, whose photoshoot with the Queen made headlines earlier this year, has 22 pictures in the exhibition.

There are also photographs by Helmut Newton, Nan Goldin, Herb Ritts and Mario Testino.

National Portrait Gallery curators were given access to the Vanity Fair archives.

Some of the pictures, including the 1924 image of Virginia Woolf by photographers Maurice Beck and Helen MacGregor, are previously unseen.

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter said: "It’s only fitting that the august National Portrait Gallery will present the first exhibition of Vanity Fair’s iconic portraits.

"To have all of the works displayed together will serve as a remarkable photographic history."

National Portrait Gallery director Sandy Nairne said: "This exhibition offers the perfect combination of great subjects and great photographers: an essential who’s who of the past hundred years.

"This is an extraordinary opportunity to look back across two major swathes of the 20th century."

The exhibition is one of the highlights of the gallery’s spring 2008 season, and opens in February.

Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 runs from February 14 - May 26. 

Source: This Is London.

The Opening of Christian Lacroix's Exhibition in the French press
Category: Exhibition.

Exhibition by Christian Lacroix ''Histoires de mode''
From November 08, 2007 to April 20, 2008

Les Arts Décoratifs
Musée de la Mode et du Textile
107 rue de Rivoli
75001 PARIS

The dress designed by Christian Lacroix and worn by Madonna in the "The Beast Within", the opening video of the "Re-Invention Tour" in 2004, and photographed by Steven Klein for his "X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS" exhibition, made the cover of French newspaper "LE FIGARO et vous".

On the cover of "LE FIGARO et vous" (full page)

PARIS MATCH

Below some photos from the opening of the exhibition showing Christian Lacroix next to the dress worn by Madonna. Photos: AP/Remy de la Mauviniere and REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer.

   

 

Previously on DrownedMadonna:

[Read It First Here] New Exhibition by Christian Lacroix ''Histoires de mode''

[Read It First Here] New Exhibition by Christian Lacroix ''Histoires de mode''
Category: Exhibition.

New exhibition by Christian Lacroix from November 08, 2007 to April 20, 2008.

Les Arts Décoratifs
Musée de la Mode et du Textile
107 rue de Rivoli
75001 PARIS

COSMOPOLITAN - November 2007

In Fashion '07.
Category: Exhibition.

An extensive exhibit of international fashion photography is coming to town during Art Basel Miami Beach in December.

In Fashion ’07 will showcase works by approximately 20 established and emerging photographers, including Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Serge Lutens, Steven Klein, Ellen Von Unwerth, Miles Aldridge and Elaine Constantine. In all, more than 200 photos will be on display from Dec. 2-9 at the Doubletree Surfcomber Hotel, 1717 Collins Ave., Miami Beach. About 1,800 variations of the works -- signed and in various sizes -- will be available for purchase, priced between $5,000 and $35,000.

The exposition is the brainchild of Miami Beach resident Francois Trabelsi, who this year founded the Miami Beach Art Photo Expo, an organization to promote contemporary photography, which is presenting the exhibit. Trabelsi was a partner at Lord Byron, an advertising agency in Paris, where he forged relationships with photographers, he said.

His goal for the show was to pose the question: Where is fashion photography today?

’’Twenty years ago, it was to show the clothes,’’ Trabelsi said. ``Today, the clothes [you can] forget. You have to show an image, a message.’’

Photographers in In Fashion ’07 hail from 12 countries, including France, the United States, Germany, China, the United Kingdom and Japan. Some, like Mondino, have shot celebrities including Madonna and David Bowie. Many have produced images for big fashion houses and slick fashion magazines.

The show is curated by Marion de Beaupré, a French photo gallery owner, author and agent. ’’Working for the fashion industry, a genre that continuously reinvents itself, these photographers have become the icons of a new popular culture,’’ she said in a statement.

Trabelsi said he believes the exhibit will be a refreshing alternative to others at Art Basel.

With some of the exhibits, he said, ``it’s very difficult to understand . . . what the artist wants to say. But I am sure the photography is going to talk to everybody -- when you see eyes and emotion.’’

The show will be set up around the pool at the Surfcomber, beneath a transparent tent. After the Miami debut, Trabelsi plans to take the exhibit to other major cities.

’’I think photography is the future of art because of the accessibility of the art,’’ he said. ``Photography talks to everybody.’’

Source: Miami Herald.

[Read It First Here] Madonna in the New Exhibition by Pierre and Gilles in France
Category: Exhibition.

Exhibition "Pierre et Gilles, double je" from June 26 to September 23 in Paris

Jeu de Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75 008 Paris
Tel. 01 47 03 12 50

"Legend", Madonna by Pierre and Gilles in 1995

Aujourd'hui en France

BE COINTREAUVERSIAL!
Category: Exhibition.

Photographic exhibition "BE COINTREAUVERSIAL" in Madrid includes this huge original picture of Madonna by Daniel Smith (2001) from the filming of "Swept Away".

Click here for further info about the exhibition. 

Special thanks to our Spanish contributor Jor_g.

Mario Testino exhibition in Düsseldorf.
Category: Exhibition.

The NRW Forum in Düsseldorf will host an exhibition of Mario Testino large format photographs titled "Out of Fashion".

It will portray about 40 photographs of Madonna, Kate Moss, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law as well as a choice of work done for Gucci, Vogue and Vanity Fair.

More info and tickets at www.nrw-forum.de. 

Special thanks to Camillo at madonna-news.de.

More news on Madonna's personal clothes exhibition!
Category: Exhibition.

A few days ago press started talking about Madonna's plans for an exhibition of her personal clothes. Today The International Herald Tribute has more info about this project with new Madonna's quotes she probably said during the "M by Madonna" launch party in London. Here's the article which is also focused on her H&M clothing line...

Madonna, petite in a white jersey 1940s dress of her own design, has a confession, but it is not about the range of black, white and neutral clothes that she has designed for the Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M.

Madonna’s secret is that she has been working for two years on the archive of her performance and personal clothes, which are stashed away in California and are currently being classified.

"I’m thinking of doing a 25-year retrospective — multimedia, with video and photographs of me by Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Steven Klein and Steven Meisel," said Madonna, who also wants to "celebrate all the designers" like Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix who have created exceptional pieces for her.

Madonna, 48, was launching her "M by Madonna" line in the cool-but- cozy Artesian bar, designed by Tom Collins, at London’s Langham hotel. The H&M collection goes on sale Thursday and is already worn by the pop diva herself, on vast billboards across town.

As fashion spectaculars go, this was a discreet affair, with the sophomore designer knotting the belt of a trench coat and tweaking its collar as she unveiled this first line of ready-to-wear pieces — following the track suit she created for H&M last year.

"I didn’t want to do a gigantic line of clothes and I wanted to keep the color palette simple," said Madonna of the black, white and neutral range. "I did the track suit because that is what I want to work out. These are clothes I want to wear and wish to keep on. I have a group of girls who work for me I call ’Semtex girls’ (read ’explosive’) who are hard-working but who like to have fun. There is nothing in this collection about the stage, theater and drama."

Price is the key to the 26-piece line of slim dresses, cropped jackets and pants, with a bunch of accessories (including a wide patent leather corset belt). Madonna’s little white jersey dress, with a girlish raised waist and softly puffed sleeves (inspired from a find in her closet), sells for $59.90. A leather jacket is top-of-the-range at $198, but you can buy a "very Madonna" belted blazer for $69.90 and for $10 more, a denim zippered top. Jeans, at $59, are way below premium prices.

Accessories do not include Madonna’s favorite French beret, but there is a turban hat, as well as bold hide-behind sunglasses and handbags. The corset belt, in mock crocodile, sells for $34.90. The "M" collection will be in all H&M stores in 28 countries carrying women’s clothes.

Looking at the lineup of nice but unremarkable clothes (which, of course, look much more fab in the ad campaign, when it is Madonna’s well-honed body filling out a curvy white shirt and pencil skirt), it is hard to imagine why such an icon of pop culture wants to reach out to her adoring public with clothes as well as music.

The singer, who says "it wasn’t new for me to be on the floor with pins," says that she was involved in the design, had fittings done on herself and believes that "it is not a job to take lightly."

Margareta van den Bosch, H&M’s head of design, said that Madonna "showed me part of her wardrobe" as the basis of the taste and style, and that the star was very much involved in the project. Madonna said that she was inspired from her closet by "a certain kind of pencil skirt," "bits of details" and vintage clothes that she has collected since she appeared in the 1985 movie "Desperately Seeking Susan."

"I wanted it to be unique and simple at the same time," said Madonna, while admitting that it was tougher than she had expected, after years of involvement in her stage wardrobe, to "design clothes anyone can wear."

"My day job includes fashion — but I am not sure I’d want to design clothes," she says. "I have a new-found respect for designers."

Source: The International Herald Tribute.

Madonna's Trash in a New Exhibition in France
Category: Exhibition.

"Trash", new exhibition by Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain (photographers from "Paris Match" magazine)
"Maison Européenne de la Photographie"
From 2007, March 14th to June 3rd

These photographs, largely published in the international press in the Nineties, are exposed for the first time in France, including Madonna, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, John Travolta, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Nicholas Cage.

The size of the photographs is 120 cm x 180 cm which allows to see all details.

The photo of Madonna's trash (from 1996) shows a shampoo of the mark "Superstar" and a lot of bottles of water.

"ESPRIT Femme" magazine - April 2007

The exhibition will travel to the house of photography in Moscow in April.

"Trash" exhibition by Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain

MEP ("Maison Européenne de la Photographie")
5, rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris

From Wednesday to Sunday, from 11:00 am to 7:45 pm.
Book 64 pages, Editions du Regard, 32 euros.

From www.mep-fr.org/us/expo_1.htm :

The original inspiration for this two-man project was an article in the daily newspaper Le Monde where a sociology professor explained a study he had carried out in which household waste was analysed in order to provide an understanding of consumerism and social behaviour. Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain found that this was both the opportunity to have some almost adolescent fun that was perfectly consistent with their profession : they decided to 'go through the trash' thrown away by their celebrity clients. The way they worked has as much to do with paparazzis as with sociology: it involved tracking down, locating and planning the collection of the waste that interested them.

They started with Brigitte Bardot, communist politician Georges Marchais, far-right politician Le Pen, disgraced multimillionaire businessman Bernard Tapie, tennis player Yannick Noah, and actor Gérard Depardieu. Encouraged by Daniel Filipacchi they continued their antics in Los Angeles, rifling through the trash thrown out by Brando, Nicholson, Madonna, Michael Jackson and even Ronald Reagan.

These "abject objets" we remove from our sight by throwing them away were then used as the raw material for their project. Back in their studio, they sorted through the material, then chose and displayed parts of it according to formal and taxinomic logic. This studied classification of consumed goods ultimately reveals the private life of the person who once owned them. Thus composed and photographed, the contents of the trashcans become exhibits where once they were hidden from view.

Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron have been 'going through the trash' for fifteen years, producing an inventory that is troubling from a moral, economic and even political point of view. But who's upsetting whom? Who's upsetting what? The subjects thamselves prefer to manage their obscenity rather than leaving it to others. The trashcan is the ultimate abjection ; it is even more scatological than bodily waste - it is 'pornographic' in that it denounces foibles, faults and deviances. Trash speaks to us of shame and shadow.

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Watch two TV reports from French channels on this exhibition, including interviews with the 2 French photographers Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain and a close look at the photo of Madonna's trash :

- From today's TV news on France 3, click on the pic below :

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- From yesterday evening's TV news on France 2, click on the pic below :

And then click on :  

 

Swedesh Museum wants Madonna's corset for permanent display!
Category: Exhibition.

According to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, the Rhöss Museum For Design And Decorative Art in Göteborg, Sweden, wants to buy one of Madonna’s (in)famous stage costumes for permanent display at the museum. It should be from The Blond Ambition Tour since they talk about her "coned bra".

Museum's new manager, Ted Hessleholm is willing to pay 280,000 Swedish Kronor (about $39,000) for the item, hoping that one of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s "Madonna-costumes" will be available for that price.

He wants to make the museum Sweden’s first fashion museum, inspired by similar museums in Paris and Antwerpen.

They have made a first contact with Gaultier and hopes to get his help with getting Madonna’s corset, or bra.

Madonna costumes exhibition.
Category: Exhibition.

Finally, Madonna talks again about her costumes exhibition...

Here's what Contact Music reports:

Pop superstar MADONNA has a secret museum housing all her favourite stage and screen outfits. The MATERIAL GIRL has kept hold of thousands of costumes which she keeps hidden away at an undisclosed location in California.

She reveals, "I have an archive museum in a warehouse which houses all the costumes I’ve worn on stage and in videos - one-of-a-kind pieces made for me and special pieces I’ve always loved."

Madame Tussaud Spoofs Jolie-Pitt and Madonna.
Category: Exhibition.

Very bad taste, don't you think?

''Lotsa De Casha'' Illustrator Exhibition.
Category: Exhibition.

An exhibition of Portuguese painter and illustrator Rui Paes will take place from October 17th to October 26th at Foyer do Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. The exhibition is open from 1pm to 7pm.

The premiere will take place on October 16th.

Rui Paes has greatly illustrated Madonna's children book "Lotsa De Casha".

Special thanks to Axel.

Bettina Rheims Twenty-five Years.
Category: Exhibition.

Cook Fine Art presents an exhibition of photographs by Bettina Rheims from until October 30, 2006. The show spans a period 25 years from the mid-1980s to the present. Included in the exhibition is a selection of Madonna's pictures.

A major retrospective exhibition of her work continues to travel in Europe through 2006.

Cook Fine Art
1063 Madison Avenue (bet. 80th and 81st St.)
New York, NY 10028

Soon-to-be famous Madonna photo.
Category: Exhibition.

In 1983, photographer Amy Arbus, a few years into a decade of prowling downtown New York City, caught a soon-to-be famous Madonna on an East Village sidewalk. The Material Girl was buttoned up in a stained cloth coat, clutching a bowling bag.

This early Madge shot is one of 25 silver gelatin prints in ''Amy Arbus: On the Street 1980-1990’’ at the Cohen Amador Gallery, culled from more than 500 Arbus images that appeared in the Village Voice.

Arbus achieves what she was sent out to do -- get the new look, which she did in a semi-posed, clear, documentary style.

Things have changed so much in the city that these images appear more than 20 years old.

Photographs are priced from $2,250 to $3,500. A book of these works has just been published.

"Amy Arbus: On the Street 1980-1990," can be seen through Oct. 14 at Cohen Amador, 41 E. 57th St.; (1)(212) 759-6740 or http://www.cohenamador.com.

Artist’s Reception and Book Signing: Wednesday, September 20, 6-8 PM.

W Hotel in NYC.
Category: Exhibition.

Just like the one in L.A. the W Hotel in Times Square New York opened last night their Madonna Exhibit, covering the span of her career.

Special thanks to Mike at www.MadonnaDownload.com.

Expo Madonna 2006 - Ecuador.
Category: Exhibition.

This past week due to Gay Pride's day a new edition of Expo Madonna Ecuador was released in Quito, Ecuador (last year it took place in Guayaquil), at Cine Ocho y Medio. A lot of fans and not too fans from all over the world attended the exposition.

The most scarce and rare items shown in the expo were the now expesive and scarce Ecuadorian 12" and 7" vinyls both maxi and lp, among limited editions, exclusive posters, books and magazine covers. Over 150 people attended the exposition during the last week.

For the inauguration day, The Girie Show has been shown on the Big Screen of the cinema and "Mandonna", an ecuadorian impressionist performed a few songs (Like a Virgin, Vogue, Hung Up) for the crowd before and after the show.

Special thanks to reinvented_0.

[The First Look] Breathless In Paris.
Category: Exhibition.
Hre is a picture our friend Myrtho took from an exhibition currently in Paris on gansta movies among which Dick Tracy is featured.