Interesting Q&A with the costume designer at Madonna's Sticky and Sweet Tour, Arianne Phillips:
JOB: Costume designer
HOURS: 13 hours a day, 6-7 days a week
MONTHS ON THE JOB: 4; she started prepping for the tour in May, and then attended the first three shows in Europe. Phillips worked on Madonna's previous four tours and has helped wardrobe the star offstage for 11 years.
Q: How many costumes did you have to put together for the show?
A: There are 25 performers besides Madonna who change six to eight times. Madonna has eight costume changes. And everyone gets doubles of everything, including the shoes, to last the duration of the tour. Madonna sometimes has up to six copies of one particular outfit so that it always looks fresh and great.
(...)There's a T-shirt that Prada made for us, a little hoodie that we made with Swarovski crystals. Everything is embellished with Swarovski crystals. We have over , million worth of crystals in the show (...) we want to make sure that everyone can see her and the dancers. So the crystals are really helpful.
For the whole article go to http://madonna.com/news/news.php?uid=303
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