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I think this is great, and looks really cool.
Remember the 'Justify My Love' video, from '91 I think??

Her meandering through that Paris hotel, made for one arresting video.

I'm sorry, there was any thing besides Jesus Luz in these photos? Escaped my notice.

Love her!

Oh and the interiors are nice, too.

:)

i think i'd use the word contrived...

dhue,
I agree, nothing original here either. Madonna is the Mae West of our day, without the laughs.

I'm amazed at the work she has had done on her face since the divorce... it seems not just lifted, but youthfully "plumped" as well. Must be some sort of new technique...

Ohhh...
This is a bit off-track for AT I guess (thought it is about "renovations" of a kind), but here goes:
She looks beautiful. I love her, musically and pop-culturally. But she looks 30 in the main photo, when we know she's not. She may have carried it off, but there's still something depressing and offensive about it, knowing how much money, energy and thought she/her doctors have put into making a 50-ish woman look 20 years younger. I guess you could argue that it's her money and her face, so who cares? But that money/thought/energy would be so much better used elsewhere. And how disheartening for the rest of us -- is a 50-year-old woman's natural face really so disgusting that it has to be lasered/botoxed/surgeried/whatevered out of sight? Most of us will never be able to do this, so are we supposed to just feel dismal about ourselves as we sink into middle age?
As for the interiors -- they're just "meh" for me, especially by Madonna standards.
I would really have liked to watch her beautiful, distinctive face grow older and wiser, a la Joan Didion, QEII, Judy Dench, various wrinkly others.

'desperate old whore' ? Really? She's still getting people this riled? And all the comments on her face looking so young? It's called Photoshop.

I'm in the "desperate old whore" camp. She's such a bore. And so totally desperate.

Take a look at Lauren Hutton in the J. Crew catalog. Now that's an example of looking natural and great at any age. I hope my home and my face look that good after 65 years!

Hope any of you haters could look that good and at any age! Photoshop or not she has the look and you can eat your hearts out.

Madonna bent a few barriers for you and is still doing it for the girls.

shirley-temple-of-doom, what's up yours?

I think she looks amazing, photoship, plastic surgery and all. It a very sexy spread and if you check out the full spread in the magazine there is a lot more of Jesus Luz to see! Aye dios mio!

Poor Madge, had to wear gloves to cover her scary hands.

I wonder which has had more renovation... the hotel or Madge's face?

Please don't sully your site with photos of this desperate old whore.

posted by shirley-temple-of-doom --

I agree 100% - I am sure there are better decor inspiration pictures out there.

Come on, calling her an "old whore?" That is really uncalled for. Did she break your Eames chair or something?

It's not entirely Photoshop - supposedly she *has* had some pioneering new treatment called a "ribbon lift." Please don't ask how I know this; the internet is rotting my brain.

The decor (which is what I thought this discussion was supposed to be about) is kind of boring if you ask me. Never liked the French provincial style, too girly and too often cheaply done to appeal to me. Maybe the total ambience of the place overcomes that, but not my taste...

Wow.

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Dear Madonna,

There is nothing left to reinvent. You can go home now.

Sincerely,

99% of the World

I guess it boils down to if you prefer your furniture aged with a pantina or shiny and modern

Oh, Madge, your photoshoot broke the hotel and it's not closed for renovations.

Leave the plastic surgery to Cher.

Actually, her eyes look like Nora Dunn's now that I think of it (eyebrows, esp.).

Good god, here I was all set to agree about how it's too bad Madonna has felt the need to pay people to cut open her face so she'll look younger, but the intense older-woman-hatred going on here ("old whore"? WTF?) makes me partially understand why she's done that.

"Desperate old whore"? Madonna is certainly not that. Madonna's talent seems to be constant reinvention. I'll grant that since her debut as a trashy teen icon, there has not been anything terribly original, but she does reinvent styles and make them her own.

Never one to really appreciate her music, I nonetheless went to see her in Oakland last November (the Saturday before the election!). The show was spectacular. Whether she is the singer or the empresaria or both, the show was spectacular.

Labeling her a "desperate old whore" says more about the labeler than the labelee.

I think costume designer Arianne Phillips, the stylist behind the photo shoot, has done an amazing job. She is very talented. Clothes, accessories and interiors speak the same language and that's the main purpose of this photos... communicate and transmit.
Delikatissen

Wow. I guess this suffices as a punctuated "F-U" to the ex.

C'mon, she has been so Photoshopped it doesn't even look like her...

Hate on and when you are old and look in the mirror and not recognize the person you once were, remember this read. You too shall be witness to the demise of your self as you think you are now and always. The body ages, yet the soul lives on as the freshness of the morning dew. With each new day the farther you get from yourself and emerge as a new person. That is reincarnation, the soul living through different bodies and persona.

Haters beware.

What is truly sad it that Madonna does not look like a 50 year old woman and she still receives the photoshop treatment, to the max.

Maybe thats because although she does not look 50 she is looking rather weird these days. There is a fine line with cosmetic surgery and I think she crossed that in her forties.

the photos remind me of those by Bettina Rheims the great French photographer who has done some great nudes & photos of women. Madonna also posed for Bettina Rheims & the photos are fascinating; however, these photos look like wanna be Rheims. too polished, too photoshoppy, too contrived. the whole look is off.

I just don't see much originality, art or interesting style here.

The late great photographer Helmut Newton did this genre much better.

As for Madonna. I don't care about her age. I just don't find anything culturally relevant about her at this point. She's rehashing what she herself rehashed from others in the 1990s.

So I'm not getting the points of interest here. The hotel interiors? The hotel interiors with Madonna? Madonna? Madonna semi naked in hotel interiors?

Like I said, Helmut Newton pretty much had this form of dated/faded glory hotel interiors with semi naked models covered going back to the 1970s. Madonna already did this back in the 1990s with her SEX book and Justify My Love video (or whatever they were called).

TIRED.

I also question what the editorial purpose is for AT here. Not that much to see in terms of the interiors, and whatever we do see is not terribly interesting.

As for Madonna, I agree with Lizzy C. BTDT and then some.

I'm also annoyed about the "old whore" comments. It's a cheap shot that's completely uncalled for.

On the other hand, the interiors and photography are kinda boring. This looks like any schmancy hotel anywhere.

I do wish they'd omitted the smoking. It's a lazy way to communicate louche glamor.

I just couldn't believe they put so many shots with the focal points of the pictures right in the crack of the page!

Seriously, who ever did the crop and paste layout of the shoot, should be fired! All the hype and then they ruined the whole thing!
Its Pretty sad, and actually I am really not impressed with the whole magazine lately, dont think I will renew...for me: they have kind of sunk down to boring and rude....
sorry...W