Almost 50 – and a fashion icon

Here’s the translation of an article published on December 22 on Norway’s best selling newspaper, Verdens Gang.

“Madonna has left the mysticism and has been reborn as a dancing queen. With her new looks and style, the 47-year old is back as a fashion-icon for fourteen year olds as well as fourty year olds.

The middelaged popstar is still superior as a trendsetter. In addition to that, she made herself to be the world’s most famous brand. “She has mastered to be hot for three decades by constantly reinventing herself. She shops for spirituality as well as a new style, new sound and PR-strategies,” writes danish paper Politiken.

With her new album “Confessions On A Dance Floor” Madonna’s back with the discoballs and the dance floor. The female pop icon of all times must count as a shopoholic on the spiritual market, and has flirted with buddhism, shintoism, hinduism, taoism or kabbalah, a jewish mysticism. But, now that she’s thrown herself into a futuristic discoparty, she, again, meets her time as “the material girl”.

Click on the Full Article link below to continue reading this article by Kirsty Hovland published on Thursday’s VG and translated into English by Marcus.

Young girls and forever young mothers pull out the sidebangs and joins the dance.Trendanalyst and costumedesigner Lisy de Rohan Birkeland establishes:

– It’s unbelievable. My husband asked our daughter, Sophie (10), if she thought Madonna was too old for this. The answer was a firm ‘no’, Madonna was not too old to be interesting.

– Doesn’t it seem desperat of a 47 year old woman to appear as a teenager?

– Madonna’s really good to hit the time right and handles it well to pull back soon enough, she never takes it too far, so that it looks ridiculous. She has skills and intelligense to master this challenge, and always makes sure to have great helpers, says Lisy de Rohan Birkeland.

Fashion-cameleon

Madonna passes as the ultimate fashion-cameleon and has changed her style from being platinumblond in the 80’s via Dominatrix, New Age and british nobility i the decades that followed. A postmodern icon they like to call her. Or as her former boyfriend and rapper Vanilla Ice said it: “If she was a painting, she would be an abstract Picasso. She has so many faces.”.

In addition, Madonna made it trendy to be a housewife, at least a mother. The mature Madonna is not just a libertarian, but a mother. A mother of morals. Husband and partner through the past five years, the british filmdirector Guy Ritchie, brought the american Madonna to the british suburbs. With her into the marriage, she had her 9 year old daughter Lourdes, that Madonna had with her personal trainer Carlos Leon during the shooting of “Evita”.

Corrected by her daughter

In an interview with british tv-personality Richard Parkinson, recently shown on TVN, Madonna talked about her children, the daughter Lourdes (9) and Rocco (5), which are not allowed to watch tv. And they have to clean themselves. Lourdes corrects her mother for her provocative style in clothing, Madonna admits in an interview with british Radio 1.

– If I pick her up from school, she asks me to dress normally, says Madonna.

Madonna lives out the dream american women have about the british upper classes, thinks Lisy de Rohan Birkeland.

– Madonna is living a fantasy life in one way. A little upper class and a real mother for the children on one hand, while in the professional life, she can take it all out and be 80’s stylish.

– Doesn’t she lose credibilty from all the image changes?

– No, her changes doesn’t happen that often, there’s always something new and surprising coming out of it, and it’s really well thought through. So, the credibility is not harmed..

That’s Jan Walaker, editor in art and lifestylemagazine Hot Rod, completely agreeing with.

– This is about Madonna making music that offers the best of disco in the year 2005, soundwise. I notice that in parties with people younger that me, and the ones my age, that’s Madonna’s age, this is just as catchy. If she hadn’t proved this, we would have seen through her and she wouldn’t have captured us with her style.

Madonna has always been a big star in the gay community. When VG earlier this fall asked if this had anything to do with them looking on her as a glamourous diva, Madonna answered:

– No, that’s too shallow. Under each surface, there is depth, and this goes deeper than that.

Thanks to Marcus aka Alexstone