This unique doll recreates the She's Not Me segment of the show in each detail and it even comes with a replica of the pink rock guitar Madonna used in another number of that section: Borderline.

Click HERE to go to the Magia2000 webpage where you'll find more photos of the doll and also check THIS other Blond Ambition doll, made on commission for a collector.

Congrats to Gianni and Mario at Magia2000
for creating another great unique Madonna doll!

This time they went back to 1993 and re-created the Dolce & Gabbana costum for Vogue from the Girlie Show.

Click on images below to check this great new item from Mario and Gianni of Magia 2000, whose dolls were show earlier this year at the Simply Madonna exhibition in London.

It may be titled Madonna and Me, but Tommy Kearney’s play is really about friendship, and how brittle it can be. The setting is Merseyside and the friendship of six characters who meet at school. Over the years they pair up, argue, have fun, but eventually discover that friends do not always last.

It is narrated by Adam, a pleasant young man (played with charm by James Templeton) who talks in the abstract about friendship, then shows it in action. His school pals, Paula, Leanne, Mandy, Joe and Dingo are typical teenagers, going to discos and tangling with relationships. That said, they all have distinct personalities. Paula (an energetic Annmarie Hodson) is a bit of a rebel, Mandy (Suzanne Roche) the virgin and Leanne (Lianne Curtis) something of a sex-pot. Dingo (Lee Clotworthy) is in love with Mandy but frustrated while Joe (Russell Morton) is seduced by Leanne. And Adam? He is unsure of his sexuality until he meets gay Mark (Simon Brignull).

Liverpool writer Kearney handles the stories well, cooking the individual tales into one large and ultimately festering pot of relationships.

There is some comedy but this is a serious look at life and (rightly) does take a serious turn. There is also one curious scene in which four male dancers perform erotically. A totally Merseyside production, from director Pearl Marsland to the excellent cast, makes this very much a Liverpool show, even though it was first staged in London.

In the intimate surroundings of the Actors Studio, at the old Liverpool Academy of Arts, in Seel Street, Madonna and Me comes across as fresh and rather loveable.

Today we are happy to show you, courtesy of Archivio Clerici, two of the images that have inspired Madonna's work. Here are Solo per Arpa (1946) and Passeggiata sul gallo a due teste (1951) that are also published on a new book about Fabrizio Clerici by Nicoletta Campanella.

One day, in New York, Jean Paul Gaultier goes to the Museum of Modern Art that exposes by chance Duo per arpa e cello (1944) by Fabrizio Clerici: Gaultier sees it, stops, it reminds him a lot about the surrealist Parisian photogtaphy from the sixties, he goes back: he likes it! He asks more information: He wants to taste this Clerici and he likes him a lot. It's 1990, his explosive year, also because Madonna asks him to design costumes for her Blond Ambition Tour: that Clerici really appears to him as a trace of genius: he gives Madonna, for a scene of the show, the most secret reinterpretation of Italian art, in costume and fashion history, of Solo per Arpa (1946)!

Splendid, Madonna!!!

...She agrees, then she is taken by enthusiasm as well...because that Fabrizio Clerici, she also finds him a genious, but she makes him hers: the projection of her soul. So, in 1994, when she works on the treatment for her Bedtime Story music video, directed by Mark Romanek, she evokes the eye of Horus, exaclty like Fabrizio Clerici used to do each time he drew or paint them.

Nicoletta Campanella, Fanions. Seduzioni per Utopia, in Fabrizio Clerici. Opere 1937-1992, catalogo della mostra, Sellerio

In an article published by Repubblica.it, Queen of pop Madonna is also mentioned as one of the artists who appreciate Clerici's paintings and was inspired by them in her work as well as Jean Paul Gaultier. Madonna was inspired by the work of Clerici for the famous Blond Ambition Tour and her video for the song "Bedtime story".

What follows is excerpt from the article from La Republica. We invite our Italian readers to read it in full on their website.

"It happened one day of 1990, Jean Paul Gaultier who was about to become one of the more eccentric and brilliant designers of the fashion system, visiting the Museum of Modern Art of New York that was struck by a paint called "Duo per arp" (Pair for Arp), a picture of one sumptuous mythical suggestion dated 1944 by Fabrizio Clerici.

Gaultier stopped to contemplate it over a long time span, it reminded him much of Paris' surrealist photography from the 60’s. He was literally amazed. He soon tried to get all information about this painter that he really "enjoyed a lot"! 1990 was the explosive year for the French designer also because Popstar Madonna had entrusted him the design and the custumes of her "Blond Ambition Tour".

And Clerici and his traces of romantic and apocalyptic genius, was what he was looking for. Gaultier gave the Material Girl, for one scene of the concert, the most secret reinterpretation of that Italian Art, in the history of costume and fashion, "Solo for ARPA", citing a work of 1946.

Because of Gaultier passion Madonna fell in love as well with that exuberant Italian who painted pastiches full of fantasy and imaginery of forfeitures antiquarianisms, between the grand Roman archaeology and orientalism that evoke parallel universes.

And four years later, writing the screenplay for the video of the song "Bedtime story", Madonna evokes the eye of Horus from Clerici's work. Madonna is the contemporary artist who carried the more sensational celebration that pop world has ever offered to the fantastic "visionary Italian Art", paying a tribute to the iconography of Fabrizio Clerici. And while in the video her mouth begins to spell "Today is the last day that I'm using words", her face looks exaclty like the one that Clerici painted in "Testimoni oculari" (Eyewitnesses) dated 1943 and again in 1946."

Miriam Slater is an artist from California, who has a large celebrity clientel which has followed her over the years. She is currently doing a series of fabulous contemporary women as geishas. "I thought you would be interested in seeing this new painting I did of Madonna as a Japanese courtesan" she tells us, adding that "two photos of this painting are available on Ebay for Madonna fans at a nominal fee. I am trying to see if there is any interest in it in which case I would like to make the painting into a poster, so lots of people could enjoy it."

Thanks to Miriam Slater for sharing her art with us. If you want to give her feed back contact us at our share@madonnatribe.com email so that we can forward you messages to her.