The Met KL – Celebration
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born 16 August 1958), known simply by her first name, is an American pop singer-songwriter, record and film producer, film director, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. Guinness World Records listed Madonna as the most successful female recording artist of all time. Madonna is often referred to by the media as the 'Queen of Pop'. Madonna's record company credited her as having sold over 232 million albums and 150 million singles worldwide.
Why Madonna?
2010 is the year of Madonna. She performed "Like a Prayer" at the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief concert in January 2010. In March she released her third live album, Sticky & Sweet Tour. She announced plans of directing her second film, W.E., a biopic about the affair between King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. Madonna granted American TV show Glee the rights to her entire catalogue of music, and the producers planned an episode which featured Madonna songs exclusively, titled "The Power of Madonna". Entertainment Weekly called it "one of the best hours of TV you’re likely to see all year". Glee: the Music, the Power of Madonna, an EP containing eight cover versions of Madonna songs featured in the episode was released in May. The EP debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, with 98,000 copies sold in the United States.
She also appeared in a series of Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton advertisement campaigns and participated in a fashion spread for Interview and W magazines. Madonna is definitely not known for standing idly on the sidelines.
Madonna is a star and has always been a woman who takes chances. She might not be a woman that every female looks up to, but she is definitely worth her weight in gold. She commands the stage, and has always been the center of attention. Madonna told Dick Clark on his Show, "Bandstand" in the 1980's that she wanted to rule the world. We have cheered her on as she has taken command of the center arena. Madonna is a seductress in fishnet stockings. She has a strong head for business, and can still sing and dance as well as the younger girls, trying to climb to the top of the charts.
The Met KL is celebrating its 4th Anniversary in Oct 2010 and the anniversary theme is based on Madonna’s hit chart song “Celebration” which was released digitally in July 2010. It is a dance-oriented song with influences of Madonna's singles from the eighties and nineties. The lyrics of the song invite one to come and join a party. Revisiting her images from the 80’s right up till now has brought back some strong influences and inspirations for us to create great hairstyles and hair colors for today’s modern women. Our goal is to empower, inspire and encourage women to take chances, enhance their look, and boost their self esteem. Great hairstyles are easily accomplished by working together with your natural hair texture or altering it to a positive effect, as are amazing hair colors. Colors need not be too light however, just enough to accentuate the hair texture, length and skin tones.
The Met KL has re-created a series of looks selected from Madonna’s top selling album covers. The looks feature diverse of hairstyles and hair colors taken from the albums “Like a Virgin “and “True Blue” from the 80’s, “Vogue” and “Ray of Light” from the 90’s and “Confessions on the Dance floor” from 2005.
The Met KL would like to extend special appreciations and gratitude to the “Stars” of the campaign; Serena C for “True Blue”, Azura Zainal for “Like A Virgin” and “Vogue”, Jenny Lee for “Ray of Light”, and Jay Menon for “Confessions on the Dance floor”. Fabulous make up was created by the Shu Uemura Black Book Artists, superb photography by
Bernard Ooi of Dreamz Studio, fantastic fashion styling by Peter Lum and our talented hairdressers at The Met KL- Emil Khor, Alex Yap, Teng Wong and the team of assistants.
Thank you.
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