Madonna: 50 Looks We Can't Forget

As the Material Girl celebrates a half-century, trace her every fashion reinvention. By Aaron Parsley and Cara Lynn Shultz

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Updated: Thursday Aug 14, 2008 | 06:00 AM EDT

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The singer went '40s glam in elegant suits and hats as beloved Argentinean presidential wife Eva Péron in the 1996 musical film Evita. During filming, Madonna discovered she was pregnant with daughter Lourdes. "It got hard toward the end, just in terms of working long hours and being on my feet," Madonna said. "But it was okay, I got through it."