Madonna in Givenchy Haute Couture
Paris at the best times could best be described as a bespoke chocolate box full of the most incredible tasting perfectly looking luxe chocolates known to mankind.
But during Couture…well…it just leaves chocolate in the dirt and turns into the most sublime rock-filled jewellery box. Credit crunch or not. Trust Madonna to unofficially kick-start the Couture season this week, by prancing and dancing on the O2 Arena stage on Saturday for the start of her Sticky and Sweet Tour, in a Givenchy Couture number designed by Riccardo Tisci.
This is the same Madonna, who in spite of her iconic status, was once booed by an entire Jean
Paul Gaultier Couture audience for keeping everyone waiting for an hour to then make her entrance. That of course went down like a polyester dress on the front of Vogue . Very Prickly indeed.
Her vampy number was hand stiched by a team of ‘ les mains’ as the highly skilled Couture seamstresses like to be known as, and must have taken at least a couple of hundred hours to complete!
It is crafted in a double silk satin and the tulle jacket, embroidered with jet stones, fringe, guipure lace with cellophane discs. Ingenious really! In the chocolate box scheme of things this is an 80% dark chocolate diamond encrusted expensive truffle.