Madonna would have done it. What? Crash the web, if it had existed back then. No offence to Jennifer Lopez, but Google Images was not created by Lady Ciccone just to be ahead of its time. On September 14, 1984, there were still seven years to go until the launch of the first Internet site in history, in 1991 to be precise. Otherwise, that day the world wide web would have gone crazy.
At Radio City Music Hall in New York the appointment is with the first edition of the MTV Video Music Awards, an event that has since then generated fashion satisfaction on stage (let’s wait until September 11th to find out what this year has in store for us in terms of style, stay tuned!). Madonna, then a semi-unknown, performed by emerging from a wedding cake with what is now considered among the most legendary looks of pop and one of the most famous wedding dresses in history.
The best part of a wedding? For fashionistas, it’s clearly the dress. But who said that girls just want to have fun with their wedding look to swear eternal love? Let’s get inspired, then, by the celebs who have chosen wedding outfits to walk not down the aisle, but red carpets and important stages
The pop star sings Like a Virgin for the first time in public, anticipating the release of the single, which will take place on November 6th: she wears aa bodice in mesh and tulle, a tulle skirt with heart polka dots, gloves in long lace strictly cut on the fingers and the very famous belt with the writing Boy Toy. A wedding dress, complete with veil, transformed for the occasion into a bold statement of female sexuality that will then be worn on the cover of the album of the same name, immortalized in the shot by Steven Meisel. A wedding dress that will have the same impact on costume (not only on fashion) as Mary Quant’s miniskirt.
A look that has remained among Madonna’s most famous(re)cognized, after four decades, by practically everyone. But Are we sure we know everything about the iconic outfit? Have you ever wondered who made it for example? For this question and other questions fashion, You can find the answers below.
The signature of the dress Like a Virgin
Indirectly, behind the iconic white look Madonna at the VMAs, there’s Fiorucci. Stop: the ensemble wasn’t conceived by Elio himself, but by the then creative director of the Milanese designer’s equally legendary New York store, a mecca for ’80s fashionistas. This is the American stylist Maripol who then worked for the pop star for about the next ten years. At the time we were in the hedonistic period, it was the years of «Greed is good» (greed is a good thing) by Gordon Gekko in Wall Street, And Madonna wanted to embody the figure of a strong and independent woman in search of affirmation, sex and freedom.
Here Maripol, who had met the pop star at the Roxy, a hip-hop club in the Big Apple, having immediately noticed her, creates a punk wedding dress. The stylist built together with the singer her early image, all lace, bras in sight, rubber bracelets and crosses. A look then copied by the “Madonnabe”, the fans of the star of every latitude and longitude.
The dress was not supposed to be white
Maripol later revealed in subsequent interviews that, for her performance at the 1984 Video Music Awards, the show’s creative director had imagined an all-black look and a Sabbath-style virgin image complete with black lipstick and gothic mood. But it was she who insisted with Madonna to focus on a real white and virginal wedding dress worn in contrast with the belt with the irreverent writing Boy Toy. The pop star listened to it and the rest is history. Today, the dress has been on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square since 2011.
The wardrobe malfunction that made history
Madonna’s performance in a wedding dress at the 1984 VMA’s remains one of the most memorable in the history of the event also because the pop star caused a great scandal by writhing on the floor on stage with her wedding dress that was lifted up revealing her garter and lingerie. In reality, the singer herself later said that those contortions were a ploy to to remedy a wardrobe malfunction. About halfway through the performance, as she was stepping off the cake, one of her white heels slipped off her foot.
Traditional, sometimes, in shape but certainly unusual in color. Overseas it is an option that several bride to be are increasingly taking into consideration. Is getting married in black still a taboo in Italy?
So she thought she would fall to the floor to retrieve it, making people think it was the choreography, and continued from there. She rolled around on the floor, then jumped up and danced, then went back to the floor. She ended the performance lying on her back, with the dress over her head. The 1984 performance was even replicated, with the same shocking effect, at 2003 VMA’s with Madonna in tuxedo and Christina Aguilera And Britney Spears in a wedding dress.
The celebs Like a Virgin
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The iconicity of a dress also passes through Halloween in the celeb world: and so if a planetary star wears one of the most famous looks of another planetary star, the put earn even more points in the legendary consecration. If you already Paris Hilton in 2013 she chose the wedding dress Like a Virgin for the feast of the dead, it is with Jennifer Lopez in 2020 that the dress returns to make people talk about it. At the time, the Latin American star was paired up with Alex Rodriguez (fun fact: he was J.Lo’s ex for a while and also dated Madonna) and dedicated a song to him at a private party. Clearly quoting Like a virgin. History of costume to power.
Source: Vanity Fair
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