Madonna
From the moment the Detroit convent girl hitch-hiked to New York 20 years ago with a
burning ambition to be the world's most famous woman, she has shown an amazing talent for
transformation.
It is no coincidence that Steven Spielberg is looking for a woman of his adaption of Arthur
Golden's best-selling novel, Memories of a Geisha. And if her new Geisha look is a part of
Madonna's campaign to secure the part, who can blame her?
Madonna has always been a brilliant consolidator of trends, picking up on an existing look
and making it her own. When she first bounced into the charts, it was a trashy punk.
The furs and glitzy jewellery she wore for the video Material girl made Sean Penn fell in love
with her. When the marriage with Penn formally ended she was already involved with Warren
Beatty. For a short time she dressed like a gangster's moll and played in a joint movie venture,
Dick Tracy