Madonna and Marlene strike a pose

A rare picture of Madonna striking a pose in her “Vogue” outfit with costume designer Marlene Stewart can be found on the Spring 2010 issue of The Costume Designer magazine.

It is worth noticing that the magazine mentions that the pic was taken backstage at the American Music Awards in year 1991, while instead the image is much likely to be from the MTV Video Music Awards the year before.

At the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards Madonna performed “Vogue” in her glorious Marie Antoinette rendition and the song was nominated in the Video of the Year, Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Choreography in a Video and Viewer’s Choice categories – and winning in the Best Direction in a Video (with director David Fincher), Best Editing in a Video (with editor Jim Haygood) and Best Cinematography in a Video categories (with director of photography Pascal Lebegue).

Madonna did actually have a few nominations at the American Music Awards the next year (Favorite Dance Artist, Favorite Dance Single and Favorite Pop/Rock Single with “Vogue”), but she was not a winner or a performer at the event.

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Thanks to Axel.