I have been staring at these photos of Madonna – at the London premiere of W.E. last night – and I think I’ve finally figured out all of the pieces. The base is a spaghetti-strapped black gown. Then Madonna added this fire-engine-red fingerless gloves, as some kind of weird homage to Michael Jackson, maybe? And then on top of that, she added the Dolce & Gabbana cape – which really is a CAPE, like Madge is a Couture Super-Hero or something. The cape is the thing on her neck – that’s not a separate ribbon necklace, that’s part of the cape’s tie. So, what do you think of the outfit as a whole? If she had taken off the gloves, I think it would have been interesting. With the gloves, it just looks… odd.
That being said, this is maybe the best Madonna has looked in a while. Her arms are exposed, and I don’t feel like I’m being assaulted by gristle – which just proves that dropping Tracy Anderson as your trainer greatly improves your overall look. Her hair is a good length, and it makes her face look longer, which is good because she was looking so chipmunky and jacked lately. As for her chicken cutlet cheek implants – everything has softened and relaxed, right? Her face looks almost normal!
By the way, Madonna is going to be all over the place this year. She’s going to be at the Globes on Sunday, and who knows? Maybe even at the Oscars if W.E. is up for anything. She’s also going to be releasing a new album in March – she’s already revealed the album name – M.D.N.A.
PS… I’m including a pic of James D’Arcy, the English actor I love. He plays Edward in W.E. He’s incredibly talented and strangely beautiful in that weird English way. I heart him.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
The gloves are to cover her old lady hands, I think they kind of ruined the look but she does look pretty nice.
That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking!
Co-sign.
Well, I’ll say this. It’s cold here. I wear fingerless gloves every day. That way I can still text and do stuff , but my hands are still kind of warm.
Also, these gloves are extremely popular here. Tried on a pair in lilac leather yesterday, but I’ll stick to cashmere-warmer.
I think it’s her trying to be edgy with a part of her outfit still. She looks better, but doesn’t look like herself anymore. That’s the sad part of plastic surgery, when you don’t look like you. It’s why I’d I’d never have it done.
Yup. That’s the first thing I thought.
Well she’s right to do it. I have old lady hands and they look horrid in pictures, much worse than in person.
I will have to do this 🙂
Yup. That’s one of the few things you can do to cover the veiny middle-aged hands. There’s no plastic surgery that can fix them. I love the gloves though. I think she looks awesome.
Being a woman over 52ish…I can tell you that is exactly what she is doing. Nothing shows our age more than our hands.I noticed lots of pictures of Madonna in fingerless gloves recently.
Agreed! Must be a new trend – Dolly Parton is making the rounds for her new movie and she’s wearing fingerless black gloves everywhere she goes, including Letterman and The Daily Show. Hers are more discreet than Madge’s.
She looks great and her skin is amazing, not just the face but the body skin as well, not a freckle in sight. How does one do that??
The gloves mke her look stupid.
She never goes into the sun, even when she was a child. If she is on holiday and goes out swimming or something she totally covers up. Do that your entire life and you get skin like that.
how about you practice good skin care and eat a healthy diet then being sun shy a lil sun is good
What an improvment! She looks lovely, I like everything but the gloves (odd accessorize with a gown!) but her face look ??? normal, like just a beautiful woman, not a jacked one!
I agree. Wouldn’t even mind the gloves if they weren’t that horrifying color.
I have to comment on the hair. Usually her hair is completely, terribly fug but this color and style totally WORKS with her. She went around with a rat’s nest for years and I never could understand it. Because the right hairdo makes her look great.
And the arms – wow! No more ugly veins! No more crazy bulges. Wow!
Face looks good, nice and soft. I can’t fault her for wanting to look her best in the entertainment industry, as long as she doesn’t go the Cat Woman route.
I’d say the gloves are a nod to her own look in the 80s where she wore lacy fingerless gloves all the time. Given that context, it’s kind of cute.
Agree with this. It’s a nice way to go full-circle.
I agree. She looks great! And I wouldn’t want her to look *too* normal.
why is she sniffing a glove?
Also MDNA? I don’t know about america but in the UK that’s a illegal drug! Lol!
It’s MDMA = Methylenedioxymethamphetamine = XTC. 😉
The drug is MDMA.
Yep – you are right. Lord I am definitely not cool and down with the kids!
Don’t worry neither is Madonna.
A Spinal Tap reference? “Smell the Glove”
I wondered about the glove-sniffing photo, too. I thought perhaps she was gearing up to do some sort of royal wave?
The gloves make her look like she should be pushing the wheels of a wheel chair.
She really does look beautiful now that all the work as settled. I want to see this movie.
I wasn’t sure if I would go or if I would rent it. I won’t pay full price to see a bad movie or average movie. But the revamped UK trailer of W.E. with the amazing score and editing of the scenes piqued my interest much more. I saw where people (not reviewers) who saw the screenings or who were at the one-week preview opening in NY and California mostly gave it positive reviews.
U.K. Trailer – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6XIxqGCJLc
Madonna’s looking good here.
I stopped saying that about her, oh, a decade ago maybe.
Kaiser ♥ Brits again…, who would have thought :-D!
Does anyone else think she looks much more like her (real) self than she has in many years?
Yep- I was pleased.
She looks absolutely amazing and happy. And Celebitchy, you should show her photo of her from the Jonathan whatever his name is in the UK show. She looked lovely in a really pretty navy blue dress with some great shoes. I think the finger things is just her wink at her pop singer status, but a fun accessory she’s using this season, or at least over in England for this visit.
For Madonna fans, she is going to be on Nightline with Cynthia McFadden for an interview tonight, Thursday, at 11:25, with some followup bits from the interview on GMA and 20/20 on Friday from it.
Another interview with the great Madonna?B-O-R-I-N-G! Every interview is the same, with her quickly blinking eyes, over-concern for finding the right angle, & self-indulgent framing of every occurrence in her life. Spare me, Madonna — your aren’t the only one who’s lost a parent, given birth, had two divorces, & adopted children.
Azurea, this is a perfect recap of her!
You know how sometimes you’ve got a zit or something and you go to extreme measures to cover it up or disguise it and it only looks more obvious? I’m thinking that she was worried about how her hands looked, decided it would be a genius move to cover them with rocker gloves. They are her zit!
But honestly, HOW BAD could her hands look? Is the skin flowing off the back of her hands? Veins so bulgy you can see them from outer space? What???
That’s not it, I don’t think, because she’s been on a lot of red carpets for this movie and her hands have not been covered up.
google “madonnas hands” and you’ll see. they really show her age so I think it was smart of her to cover them up – as the rest of her looks much younger than her hands.
I just googled her hands! The pics are pretty bad, BUT if I had to decide between showing them or wearing red rocker gloves, I’d show the hands! She’s making it worse by covering them up, imo.
If she wanted to incorporate a vivid red into the outfit to match her lipstick, she should have wore red shoes…
@bea – Madonna’s hands have looked have looked aged for years.
@Mourning to the Death of Music
I just looked at the pix – but do you really think they warrant the cover-up? It’s not like they’re hairy or covered in scales. I think she’s drawing more attention by wearing those awful gloves.
Had Madonna purchase a nice set of vintage short black gloves, they would have flattered the outfit.
And hid those hideous hands of hers.
I wish she would let go of needing to be outrageous. And just try looking classic.
I kinda like the whole look, even the gloves. (I like the red gloves with her red lipstick)
Looks like the dress is velvet, which usually I hate, but she does look better than she has in ages. I also saw a pic of her recently in a blue dress and she looked great.
I do like the dress, it looks good on her. The gloves are a little wierd though, they look like leather athletic gloves. You would think if she was going to wear gloves she could of gotten some fancier red ones.
Her hands are not attractive…so you know..do what you have to. She looks softer and better than we have seen her in a long time.
add a Zoro hat and sword is all I’m saying
Aside from the stupid-ass cape, Madge looks fabulous! Good to see her looking like an actual normal person – she looks happy.
For a minute, I thought you meant “ass cape” and almost scrolled up to see if there was actually a separate cape for her ass.
Vampire.
She does look good, but she doesn’t seem younger. It’s like now she semms a 50yer old lady well “conserved” still 50yer anyway.
She looks great. Looking forward to more music from Madonna.
Don’t they have makeup for hands? I tried putting some on mine and they didn’t look half bad. I guess you can only do so much.
She’s been doing promo for five months for W.E. Her hands weren’t covered. She’s been all over red carpets and interviews with her hands bare. It’s freezing in the UK right now. I think it’s Madonna putting a little edge to her look while in the UK. She’s worn them before in concert. She’s Madonna after all.
a) – it’s not that cold!
b) – don’t think those gloves would help! She needs some nice snug mittens!
c) – when did weather ever effect red carpet wear really?
I think she’s making some kind of statement about something. She’s drawing attention to them. I’m sure she’ll grace us with her explanation. New cult?
I think the gloves make the outifit- it’d be boring without them.
And as for the glove “sniffing” I bet she was brushing hair out of her eyes and the photo was taken at that awkward moment.
She looks age appropriate and a lot less plastic and scary. It’s a good look for her.
It just goes to show you that you can be too skinny. As you get older, super skinny=old. Just saw some pics of Calvin Klein and holy hell he looks old.
I’d rather save my ass than my face.
I think she “tweaked” her hands, like she has the rest of her face and they’re still recovering..
She got a better surgeon this last go-around.
The chicken cutlets have been replaced by chicken tenders! She looks amazing.
Excerpt of Madonna’s interview tonight on Nightline — for interested fans. Oh, wow, a photo without her hands covered.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/01/madonna-on-younger-men-missing-certain-things-about-marriage/
hey Mama!!!!
can’t wait.
I think middle aged women in general, although celebrities have it more difficult ageing in the spotlight,,,need to accept it is very unattractive to try to maintain the bodyweight you might have been in your 20s..or thirties… that doesn’t mean one has to get heavy, BUT, to keep a very low fat body fat percentage you lose the face…that’s why they get fillers etc…they look haggard, gaunt and OLDER unless there is some sort of intervention. Sophia Loren said it right…5 lbs for every decade or else you look old, and fast…!
Yes she looks good, er…better. Maybe she had the man-chin removed, and the peen.
The man chin is still there. Back in the 1980″s, she had a heart shaped face with a little chin. She has tripled the size of her original real chin.
she needs to lose the count chocula cape; other than that she looks good.
Her face looks good but her red gloves are a stupid accessory that should be avoided.
She could’ve just worn nice silky gloves or something and looked classy, instead she looks try hard as usual. Her face is looking way better I agree though, the Saw effect is greatly reduced. I don’t know how that works, do they deflate the cutlets, take them out, what… but she does look much better/less jacked.
It’s an interesting look. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. The gloves work as a distraction. It’s what some celebrities have admitted in doing , wearing something bold, or weird to stand out in order to distract something on them that they are trying to hide or avoiding notice. People would only see the different out of place item. – Other than that she looks good and healthy. Great body makeup , evens out her skin tone and cools that overly gristle muscle look. – Keep on Rockin Lady Madonna!
WTF? I feel like I’m looking at a well preserved Sharon Stone.
She does look hot, and I don’t think I’ve thought that about Madonna since 1990. I love her commitment to staying lean.
Arrogant personality, a little filler and veins or not, Madonna has always been gorgeous to me. Right now she looks better than ever and I hope to look like that when I’m her age.
There’s nothing you can do about your hands except maybe get filler injected into them. I swear I read about that, but it sounds horribly painful and not worth it.
Yes, she finally caught on and looks much better. Her subtle dress craziness works EXCEPT for the weird glove sniffing!!!
I have to say that this movie sounds pretty interesting. Madonna looks okay, but I still wish she had aged more gracefully. After all, the neck and hands never lie…
just hope no one tried to giver her any hydrangeas this time….