Her work spans all genres from pop, rock, and blues to world, country, and Latin music.

She was the Director of Media Relations for Back Porch/Narada/Real World Records from 1990-2005 and prior to that did publicity for the Miller Band Network. Sue Schrader has spent the past two decades in the music and media industries specializing in publicity and promotion. We provide clients with individualized, personal attention and are known for our willingness to work diverse projects we’re passionate about -at both the grassroots and mainstream level. Its legacy lies in the very real way in which it has encouraged generations of female pop performers in Madonna’s wake to channel their sexuality through the outfits they choose to wear without shame, and on their own terms.Blonde Ambition PR was founded in order to provide high-quality, affordable independent music publicity for artists of multiple genres. She said no, of course, but every time she asks me to work on her shows, I can’t say no.” Thirty years after making its first debut, the cone bra is more than just a part of fashion history, or an artefact hanging in a museum. “She’s the only woman I ever asked to marry me. “I love Madonna,” Gaultier added in his New York Times interview. Gaultier would go on to collaborate with Madonna on multiple occasions, including a memorable appearance at Gaultier’s 1992 AIDS fundraising gala in support of amFAR, where she walked the runway in Los Angeles before dropping her jacket to reveal a bondage-inspired harness top that left her breasts fully exposed. This was a pop star in control, and her outfits told the story before she even opened her mouth to sing, or began gyrating wildly across the stage (or simulated masturbation, in a sequence that almost resulted in her Toronto leg of the tour being shut down). In place of the soft curves the corset was supposed to shape, the female anatomy became a spiky, phallic weapon, one that Madonna celebrated by exerting her dominance, sexual or otherwise, over the dancers she frolicked with across her one-and-a-half-hour musical extravaganza. Sure, designers like Vivienne Westwood had also spent the ’80s exploring a more freeing, playful take on the corset, but Gaultier’s version-first debuted on the runway in 1987 before being adapted for the Blond Ambition tour-took the piece and made it feel defiant, aggressive even. The cone bra grabbed the public’s attention for the way in which it rebelled against the narrow definition of the beautiful female body that, for so many centuries, had been dictated by corsetry’s body-morphing strictures. What made Madonna’s take on this undergarment truly subversive, though, was its nuances. (This laid-back response may have been due to the fact that Pepsi, eager to extricate themselves from the kerfuffle, let Madonna keep the $5 million check.)

“Art should be controversial, and that’s all there is to it,” Madonna told the New York Times with nonchalance in the lead-up to the album’s release. Featuring Ku Klux Klan-style burning crosses and Madonna receiving the stigmata, it led to a direct call from the Vatican to boycott Pepsi and its subsidiaries. A $5 million sponsorship deal with Pepsi was swiftly pulled after she debuted the video for her lead single, “Like a Prayer,” the plot of which implicitly drew a link between racial injustice and organized religion. In less than two hours, she was no longer just a pop star-she had graduated to become a fully-fledged pop culture icon.įor her most avid fans, though, it was less of a surprise: Madonna was merely following up on the string of controversies that accompanied her latest album, Like a Prayer, a year earlier. With its $2 million dollar stage set, explosive choreography by voguing legends from the New York City ballroom scene, and headline-grabbing aesthetic fusion of Catholic imagery and BDSM, the show solidified Madonna’s position at the top of music’s pantheon. Because we believe that our customers deserve to look like well-tailored, sophisticated gentlemen and urban trend settters. On the first night of Madonna’s Blond Ambition tour, held in April 1990 in Chiba, Japan, few in the audience could have prepared themselves for the spectacle about to unfold. We’re fully dedicated to giving our guests high quality, premium grooming treatments.

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