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Madonna: 50 Looks We Can't Forget

The Boy Toy belt. A monocle. Cone bras. No one does it like this Italian: As the Material Girl turns the big 5-0 (on Aug. 16) trace her every fashion reinvention. By Aaron Parsley and Cara Lynn Shultz

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WILD 'ENGLISH ROSE'

Looking more "Live to Tell" than "Like a Virgin," Madonna covered up in a conservative Prada floral frock for the Sept. 14, 2003, launch of her children's book, The English Roses. The new author sat on a swing at London's Kensington Roof Gardens between children Lourdes, then 6, and Rocco, then 3, and read passages from the book, about school friends who are jealous of another girl.

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