Madonna

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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Going back to her love affair with Spanish culture, Madonna played the part of a woman obsessed with a bullfighter in the 1994 video for "Take a Bow." The ballad, from her album Bedtime Stories, was Madonna's longest-running No. 1 hit, topping the charts for seven weeks. The romantic and retro video – part of her campaign to win the film role of Evita – was a marked departure from the singer's Erotica-era sexualized persona.