Dazed & Confused is so amazing - such a great publicity piece Madonna did for her brilliant Hard Candy album. There's a lot more that we could have seen but the ONLY thing truly missing from this magazine is the Keith Haring/Vivienne Westwood Witches Collection Devil Skirt!!! Would love to have seen that photographed porperly as these others were. Can't wait for the show that Madonna has been wanting to put together of her clothes for a museum exhibition.
Since we were on The Beast Within, this is beyond fab, as well. It's labeled X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS Video Installation #6. The real X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS installation initially ran from March 28 - May 3, 2003 at Deitch Projects in New York but then travelled to a few other places around the world. This footage was shot in 2004 for The ReInvention Tour book.
Madonna and Steven Klein's The Beast Within, is by far one of Madonna's best tour openings, if not the greatest tour opening of all-time. Merging an art exhibition with a rock stadium tour = brilliant. As my best friend Roy stated after the show, "It was like she was a star that had been dead for 100 years and she had come back to tell us something, there was a feeling of loss". I love that and couldn't have said it better myself. It was apocalyptic and insane and I believe that is why The ReInvention Tour has such a high ranking as fan favorite.
As seen on tour
...have tested those who call themselves Apostles But are not And found them to be false I know you are enduring patiently And bearing out For my namesake And you have not grown weary But I have this against you That you have abandoned The love you had
Tour Backdrop
For the time is near Let the evildoers still do evil And the filthy still be filthy And the righteous still do right And the holy still be holy Behold I am coming soon I am the alpha And the omega The first And the last The beginning And the end
Blake Lively clung to the arm of her date, Karl Lagerfeld, who bumped into Madonna and immediately began whispering in her ear, while Lively was greeted by Gossip Girl guest star Ethan Peck. “Oh my God! How are you?” enthused the Chanel-clad starlet, her newly persimmon-hued hair bouncing as she bobbed her head, “I like your suit!” “I like your...” Peck gestured in bewilderment at Lively’s draped ensemble for a moment before concluding, proudly, “Your sari!” “My sari!” she giggled. “Well, kind of!”