Madonna: 60 of her best looks on her 60th birthday – in pictures

• Share on Facebook
• Share on Twitter
• Share via Email

As the chameleonic queen of pop celebrates her big day, we look back at her style archive

Scarlett Conlon

Thu 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 Twitter

• A headshot taken in 1978 when she had moved to New York to study dance.

  Photograph: Michael McDonnell/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Strike a pose: the budding star in 1979.

  Photograph: Michael McDonnell/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Madonna aged 21 in New York.

  Photograph: Michael McDonnell/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Madonna performing Like a Virgin on the TV music series Solid Gold in 1983.

  Photograph: MediaPunch Inc/Alamy Stock Photo

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Pink ambition: the star in 1984.

  Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex/Shutterstock

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• After a performance at the 1984 MTV Video Awards.

  Photograph: GettyImages

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• A bright print ensemble for a performance in New York, 1985.

  Photograph: Waring Abbott/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On stage at Live Aid in the summer of 1985.

  Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• In the video for Like a Prayer in 1989.

  Photograph: Rex Features

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• As Nikki Finn on the set of 1987’s Who’s That Girl.

  Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy Stock Photo

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Performing at the 1989 MTV Video Music awards.

  Photograph: Frank Micelotta Archive/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• A still from the Vogue music video.

  Photograph: Youtube

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On stage for her Blond Ambition world tour in 1990.

  Photograph: Kevin.Mazur/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Performing in Tokyo in her iconic Jean Paul Gaultier conical corset.

  Photograph: Eugene Adebari/Rex

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On the run: a downtime moment outside her apartment in New York in 1991.

  Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At the MTV Video Music Awards in 1990.

  Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• With Warren Beatty on the set of Dick Tracy (1990).

  Photograph: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Off-duty in denim in New York, 1991.

  Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On the set of the 1992 film, A League of Their Own.

  Photograph: Allstar/Columbia

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Topless with Jean Paul Gaultier at his 1992 American Foundation for Aids Research benefit.

  Photograph: Jim Smeal/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Madonna performing in Girlie Show (her fourth world tour) in 1993.

  Photograph: Steve Eichner/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Madonna on stage at Wembley stadium in 1993.

  Photograph: Ilpo Musto/Rex/Shutterstock

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Wrapped up in New York in 1994.

  Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At the first Annual VH1 Fashion and Music Awardsin 1995.

  Photograph: Kevin.Mazur/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At the LA premiere for Evita in 1996.

  Photograph: Steve Granitz/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• With 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 Twitter

• At a screening for her Bedtime Music music video in New York in 1995.

  Photograph: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• A street-style shot in 1998.

  Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At the 1998 VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards.

  Photograph: Frank Micelotta Archive/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At the 1998 MTV Video Music awards.

  Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On the red carpet at the 1998 Oscars.

  Photograph: KMazur/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Madonna with four Grammy awards for her Ray Of Light album in 1999.

  Photograph: Vince Bucci/EPA

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Performing Nothing Really Matters to open the Grammy awards in 1999.

  Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/AP

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At the 2000 MTV Europe Music awards in Sweden.

  Photograph: Brian Rasic/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On stage in Barcelona in 2001.

  Photograph: Gustau Nacarino/Reuters

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Locking lips with Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV Video Music awards.

  Photograph: Scott Gries/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• A promotional shot for her 2004 Re-Invention tour.

  Photograph: PA Photo/MBC PR/PA

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At a screening for her documentary I’m Gonna Tell You a Secret in 2005.

  Photograph: Stephen Chernin/AP

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Marking 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 Twitter

• At an after party for the 2006 Oscars.

  Photograph: Rich Schmitt/AFP/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Performing in Amsterdam in 2006 on the European leg of her Confessions tour.

  Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At Coachella in 2006.

  Photograph: Lucas Jackson/REUTERS

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On stage in Miami for her Sticky & Sweet tour.

  Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscars after party.

  Photograph: Rex Features

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Promoting WE at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.

  Photograph: Action Press / Rex Features

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Attending 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 Twitter

• At the London premiere of WE, a film directed by her, in 2011.

  Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On the red carpet in New York in 2014.

  Photograph: Joe Schildhorn/BFAnyc.com/Rex

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Suited at the 2014 Grammy awards in LA.

  Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• At a 2014 charity benefit in New York.

  Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Child2014/WireImage

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Arriving 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 Twitter

• Taking the half-time slot at the 2012 Super Bowl.

  Photograph: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Celebrating the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the 2013 Met Ball.

  Photograph: PLV/Sipa/Rex Features

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Opening her Rebel Heart tour in 2015.

  Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Performing a tribute to Prince at the 2016 Billboard Music awards.

  Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• On stage for her Rebel Heart tour in Australia.

  Photograph: Graham Denholm/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Attending the 2016 Billboard Women in Music awards in 2016.

  Photograph: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Performing on stage during the Washington Women’s March in 2017.

  Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Attending the 2018 Met Ball, where the theme was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.

  Photograph: Taylor Hill/Getty Images

  Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

• Fashion

• Madonna
• Pop and rock
• Celebrity

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaJ6RqLWqu81onpqknJq%2FunuRaWhxZ5GqtHB9lWikmpyfo7uieZVpZJudo6l6rbvOpKpmbmCptW6uyKuroZyRrnqquoypoJyspaeytA%3D%3D