Our Blessed Madonna Covers Vanity Fair Europe in Luigi & Iango's Girls Last Supper Story
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Our Blessed Madonna Covers Vanity Fair Europe in Luigi & Iango's Girls Last Supper Story AOC Fashion
Madonna covers the ICONS issues of Vanity Fair Italy, France, and Spain in a first-ever joint collaboration among the magazines. The new annual “Icon Issue’ project celebrates legends who “contribute[s] to shape the modern culture.”
September 2023 Milan Museum Exhibition
The project is massive and we do not yet have all the images, photographed by Madonna’s close friends Luigi & Iango [IG]. Way back — perhaps a decade — I told these guys that no one understands the story of women’s history better than these two artists.
Madonna’s regular stylist, Swedish B. Åkerlund [IG] chooses Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano for Maison Margiela and more for the two-day shoot that involved more than 80 collaborators.
Fashion editors Michael Philouze and Marcus Chang styled the cast. For Madonna: Makeup by Stephane Marais; hair by Andy LeCompte
Images from the shoot will be part of a Sept. exhibition by Luigi & Iango at the Palazzo Reale Museum in Milan.
Note: we’ve looked at about 10 versions of this story. One had the full models list, but now I can’t find it. We can confirm Guinevere Van Seenus, Sara Grace Wallerstedt, Tianna St. Louis.
“Madonna’s career has a biblical dimension, a universal scope,” Galliano advised Vanity Fair. “The first time I saw her, she was already inspired, fearless, with integrity and artistic pride.”
The Italian edition of VF was released today with Spain and France editions released on Jan. 25.
Upcoming ‘Celebration’ Tour
On Tuesday, Madonna announced a 35-city global tour, featuring special guest Bob the Drag Queen. The ‘Celebration’ Tour honors Madonna’s 40 year-career as a pop star. [Schedule and ticket links in main article.]
Madonna and Religion
As society, are we moving on from that [patriarchal] world?
We definitely are not moving on, we are moving backwards. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be having discussions on whether or not women are allowed to make choices over their bodies in America.
Are you a pessimist?
I have to be optimistic otherwise I don’t know how I could go on.
Note that is the identical viewpoint expressed by Natalie Portman in our Miss Dior fragrance post yesterday. I do believe, however, that we must take a new approach.
For AOC that is walking straight into the lion’s den about the actual formation of the Abrahamic religions. We have way too much evidence and learning on the internet not to challenge the rigid religious truths being told today.
Religion and Mysticism
Just last night, I was buried deeply in studying the use of psychedelic drugs for religious rituals in the Levant [all the land bordering the Mediterranean from Egypt and the Holy Lands on the south to Greece and Turkey on the north]. Specifically my focus was the founding of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Madonna is fully aware of this history because she took up the study of the Kabbalah [Jewish mysticism] in the early 2000s. I have personally defended Madonna online multiple times over her Kabbalah studies.
Waking up this morning after an unusually restless night, I took one look at the Vanity Fair headlines and packed up all my notes from last night and sent them to the London writers now working with AOC. Make haste, I implored them.
Madonna is surely as knowledgeable as I am about the circumstances surrounding the founding of Christianity. This New York Times archives article can’t be gifted to readers, but if you are a subscriber, the 1970 article Jesus Christ as a crimson-spotted fungus is an excellent read.
There’s a strong argument to be made that the ancient world better understood higher consciousness and a spiritual connection to the universe that today’s Abrahamic religions.
It will be so interesting to learn the main messages Madonna will be making on her upcoming tour. Do we think Florida governor DeSantis will try to ban her opening act ‘Bob the Drag Queen.’
Will Trump and DeSantis get in a fight over who banned ‘Bob the Drag Queen’ first?
Seriously, I hope Madge has awesome security for all, as she once again tries so spread TRUTH to America. We’ve got more way more loose guns piled up in this country than last time Madonna toured.
I love you guys to death — Luigi & Iango —and your reddish-blonde-haired friend isn’t too shabby either. ~ Anne
