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Madonna’s costume designer has revealed that police almost stopped her wedding dress from arriving on time.
Published on January 20, 2025
Madonna’s wedding dress almost didn’t make it to her wedding to Sean Penn.
The Queen of Pop tied the knot with her now ex-husband in 1985, and her longtime costume designer, Marlene Stewart, recalled that the “hardest part” of working on the iconic dress was bring to the wedding.
She told Best magazine: “It was in a house in Malibu. The roads were inaccessible because the press was everywhere. We were planning to do a fitting and take photos. But the police arrested me! I insisted on passing. There were no cell phones, so there were pagers and I was just trying to call someone! »
Marlene finally made it through with the dress.
-She adds: “Eventually, I managed to pass and Herb Ritts [le photographe de la pochette de l’album “True Blue” de Madonna, ndlr] took a photo of her getting ready in the bathroom, and I was under the dress, pulling up the garter belt! »
When it came to the wedding look, Marlene took inspiration from Madonna’s ideas for her outfit.
She remembers: ” [Madonna] said: ‘I’m going to wear a black bowler hat.’ I wanted to balance the masculine side of the dress and the classic feminine side. The idea was to be fun and provocative. I designed a classic ballerina look: silk tulle, sweetheart neckline, very simple and refined. »
