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

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.