Madonna : The Style Book Book

Sex, thighs and videotapes; all this and much more can be found in Debbi Voller's Madonna: The Style Book, which takes us from the boyish Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone of 1978 to the mother of Lourdes, twenty years later. Proudly advertising itself as an unofficial and unauthorised account of Madonna, Voller's book is glamorous and gushing. It breaks the diva and her myth down into digestible sections--The Look, Sex and Religion, Fame and Power, Into the Nineties, Evita, and Earth Mother-- imaginatively peppered with sound bites on Madonna from the likes of Martin Amis, Julie Burchill and Vogue. The book treads a wonderfully gossipy line between bitchiness--"Madonna seemed to have a weight problem when she first emerged in the New York discos"--and adulation--"Once again, Madonna had become an inspiring role model for women". The sections on how to achieve that 'Madonna Night-and-Day Look' were particularly funny (apparently you need to be blonde for the evening and brunette for the day), but Voller is good on following the twists and turns in Madonna's look as well as her views. For a glitzy book on a glamorous rock star, this is pretty good.Read More