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Madonna: 60 of her best looks on her 60th birthday – in pictures
As the chameleonic queen of pop celebrates her big day, we look back at her style archive
Main image: Material girl: Madonna in 1984 Photograph: Sipa Press/RexThu 16 Aug 2018 11.26 BST
A photo from Madonna’s high school yearbook at her childhood home in Rochester, Michigan. Photograph: Rebel Images/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA headshot taken in 1978 when she had moved to New York to study dance. Photograph: Michael McDonnell/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterStrike a pose: the budding star in 1979. Photograph: Michael McDonnell/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMadonna aged 21 in New York. Photograph: Michael McDonnell/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMadonna performing Like a Virgin on the TV music series Solid Gold in 1983. Photograph: MediaPunch Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPink ambition: the star in 1984. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAfter a performance at the 1984 MTV Video Awards. Photograph: GettyImages
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA bright print ensemble for a performance in New York, 1985. Photograph: Waring Abbott/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn stage at Live Aid in the summer of 1985. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterIn the video for Like a Prayer in 1989. Photograph: Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAs Nikki Finn on the set of 1987’s Who’s That Girl. Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy Stock Photo
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPerforming at the 1989 MTV Video Music awards. Photograph: Frank Micelotta Archive/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA still from the Vogue music video. Photograph: Youtube
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn stage for her Blond Ambition world tour in 1990. Photograph: Kevin.Mazur/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPerforming in Tokyo in her iconic Jean Paul Gaultier conical corset. Photograph: Eugene Adebari/Rex
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn the run: a downtime moment outside her apartment in New York in 1991. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the MTV Video Music Awards in 1990. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWith Warren Beatty on the set of Dick Tracy (1990). Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOff-duty in denim in New York, 1991. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn the set of the 1992 film, A League of Their Own. Photograph: Allstar/Columbia
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterTopless with Jean Paul Gaultier at his 1992 American Foundation for Aids Research benefit. Photograph: Jim Smeal/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMadonna performing in Girlie Show (her fourth world tour) in 1993. Photograph: Steve Eichner/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMadonna on stage at Wembley stadium in 1993. Photograph: Ilpo Musto/Rex/Shutterstock
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWrapped up in New York in 1994. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the first Annual VH1 Fashion and Music Awardsin 1995. Photograph: Kevin.Mazur/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the LA premiere for Evita in 1996. Photograph: Steve Granitz/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWith her best actress Golden Globe for her title role in Evita in 1996. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt a screening for her Bedtime Music music video in New York in 1995. Photograph: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA street-style shot in 1998. Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the 1998 VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards. Photograph: Frank Micelotta Archive/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the 1998 MTV Video Music awards. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn the red carpet at the 1998 Oscars. Photograph: KMazur/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMadonna with four Grammy awards for her Ray Of Light album in 1999. Photograph: Vince Bucci/EPA
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPerforming Nothing Really Matters to open the Grammy awards in 1999. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the 2000 MTV Europe Music awards in Sweden. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn stage in Barcelona in 2001. Photograph: Gustau Nacarino/Reuters
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterLocking lips with Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV Video Music awards. Photograph: Scott Gries/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA promotional shot for her 2004 Re-Invention tour. Photograph: PA Photo/MBC PR/PA
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt a screening for her documentary I’m Gonna Tell You a Secret in 2005. Photograph: Stephen Chernin/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMarking the release of her album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, with a gig in Camden, London. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt an after party for the 2006 Oscars. Photograph: Rich Schmitt/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPerforming in Amsterdam in 2006 on the European leg of her Confessions tour. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt Coachella in 2006. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/REUTERS
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn stage in Miami for her Sticky & Sweet tour. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscars after party. Photograph: Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPromoting WE at the Venice Film Festival in 2011. Photograph: Action Press / Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAttending the opening of the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition at the Met Gallery in 2011. Photograph: Matt Baron/BE/Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt the London premiere of WE, a film directed by her, in 2011. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn the red carpet in New York in 2014. Photograph: Joe Schildhorn/BFAnyc.com/Rex
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSuited at the 2014 Grammy awards in LA. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt a 2014 charity benefit in New York. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Child2014/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterArriving for the 2015 Met Ball marking the opening of the China Through the Looking Glass exhibition. Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/FilmMagic
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterTaking the half-time slot at the 2012 Super Bowl. Photograph: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterCelebrating the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the 2013 Met Ball. Photograph: PLV/Sipa/Rex Features
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOpening her Rebel Heart tour in 2015. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPerforming a tribute to Prince at the 2016 Billboard Music awards. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn stage for her Rebel Heart tour in Australia. Photograph: Graham Denholm/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAttending the 2016 Billboard Women in Music awards in 2016. Photograph: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPerforming on stage during the Washington Women’s March in 2017. Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAttending the 2018 Met Ball, where the theme was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. Photograph: Taylor Hill/Getty Images
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