Madonna is back on the dance floor.
The 67-year-old pop star released a film for her upcoming album, Confessions II, on YouTube today, and Dolce & Gabbana dressed her and the entire cast for the occasion.
The 13-minute project follows Madonna from her lonely apartment through the woods, photographing dancers writhing in their tattered underwear, to packed dance floors and celebrity club bathrooms.
The Italian brand went back into its archives for the job, dressing Madonna in a jewel-encrusted top from its fall 1991 collection to square off on the dance floor to her duet with Sabrina Carpenter, “Bring Your Love.”
Carpenter crawled through the crowd wearing black lace, while Julia Garner, who had been cast to play Madonna in a biopic that has been in limbo for years, joined the fray in a cone bra, an homage to one of the most famous looks in pop history.
Dolce & Gabbana’s partnership with the pop icons dates back more than 30 years, when the label designed wardrobes for the 1993 “The Girly Show” world tour.
Later, in a bathroom scene set to “Danceteria,” Madonna changes into a sleek dress of transparent PVC and pale blue satin, revealing a black bra underneath, reminiscent of the dress she wore on her 1998 album “Ray of Light.”
“Danceteria” was inspired by the now-closed New York club where a young Madonna once gathered DJs to play demos, and the visual features a blurred out cameo from the star.
Kate Moss turns up in a leather jacket and dress, Odessa Azion drinks a martini before bumping into Madonna in sequin paste and a garter belt, and Benedict Cumberbatch, Debi Mazar, Gwendoline Christie, Richard E. Grant and DJ Honey Dijon flock to the stalls.
Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon gets the last word when she is revealed as one of the lingerie-clad women who has been following her mother with a camera in the film.
The project, directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase (the duo known as TORSO), premiered at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, days after Madonna kicked off Pride Month with a surprise concert in Times Square that stopped traffic.
Confessions II, the follow-up to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, will be released on July 3rd, and Madonna has hinted at touring plans for the new song, but said she is not considering a Las Vegas residency.
