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Corporate Whore / Sell Out / Shilling For...; - streaming service TIDAL, H&M, GAP, Louis Vuitton, etc.
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Apr 6 2007, 10:58 AM
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I only wish they'd poured the paint under a nostril. 
Has anyone checked the fan sites - are they wringing their hands over this?
Madonna Gets Vandalized
Miracle of Weeping Madonna Takes London by Surprise - Apr 5, 2006
Life is a mystery.
Just ask the folks in London, where a billboard of pop singer Madonna mysteriously began weeping fluorescent yellow paint late Monday night, the U.K. Daily Mail reports.
It won't take an investigator from the Vatican, however, to figure out whether this bleeding Madonna was a divine miracle. Vandals, the paper says, cut a hole in the eye and poured the bright paint out onto the ad.
Click here to see a photograph of the weeping Madonna.
The larger-than-life advertisement touted the Material Girl's brand of clothing at retailer H&M, and it's expected to cost nearly $12,000 to replace it.
"We are looking into this, to see how it has happened," a spokesman for the clothing store told the Daily Mail.
Until then, London gets a Technicolor treat.
Vandals make Madonna weep in her king-sized poster
Madonna Cries Flourescent Green Tears
Graffiti vandals make Madonna ‘weep’ in poster
Graffiti Artists Transform H&M Billboard into "Weeping Madonna" EDIT.
Satire: Madonna poster weeping tears of bile in tacky London clothing ... - Shoreditch, London - (Ass Mess): A giant 250 sq ft poster of eighties pop music icon Madonna has started weeping 'tears of bile' during a Holy Week promotion by East London rag trade outlet H&M.
The poster, dubbed 'the Madonna of the Seven Orifices', was erected by BlowUp Media outside the Shoreditch store to publicise the retailer's cheap 'n' tacky new Spring range of clothing that Vague! magazine has said reduces female sartoriality to new depths of ridicule.
Yesterday the singer's image began to ooze a greenish-yellow bile-like substance from her eyes prompting spontaneous projectile vomiting among customers.
City retail analysts have been quick to express caution that the Madonna tears are in any way miraculous:
"Maybe she's just plain livid at not getting the Top Shop contract awarded to Kate Moss," a fashion PR today told the press.
"We think she should stick to the forty-something market where at least she's still appreciated by the panty-girdle generation." ---------- The story above is a satire or parody. It is entirely fictitious.
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Apr 6 2007, 11:12 AM
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From the Daily Mail - Sales of her new range for H&M are believed to be below expectations, despite huge advertising.
Has funny put downs of Manny's H&M clothing:
Give Us Cool Clothes, Or We'll Give You Nudity - Apr 06, 2007 04:30 AM
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J: "I'm just not sure where you'd wear that shiny black rhinestone-embellished, to-the-knee, cap-sleeved jumpsuit, Li."
L: "Really? You can't see me taking a meeting with our editor in this?"
We're admiring each other by the highly flattering dressing room light at H&M, trying on the much-anticipated Madonna line.
When we heard about "M by Madonna," the idea that there might be stylish, affordable, contemporary clothes for women over 40 had us giggling like schoolgirls.
Sadly, we're now cackling in despair, with Li in the aforementioned crotch-clutching jumpsuit, and Josey in the misguided bridesmaid-meets-disco frock (in a colour that can't possibly look good on anyone).
Dashed hopes, again.
We like to think we're kind of stylin', but since we hit our 40s, it's no longer a case of, "Oh, we've got nothing to wear."
It's a case of, "There's nothing being made that we want to wear."
It's not that there aren't any stylish clothes for women over 40. But, alas, shopping in Paris usually isn't an option.
So you'd think some savvy designer would come up with inexpensive, funky clothes for women who aren't into Tabi. Because, as we all know, there comes a time when you look deep into your soul and ask that life-altering question: "When do you stop shopping at Le Chateau?"
Okay, so no Le Chateau, no M by Madonna. What else is there? Clothes "designed for real life." Hmm ... evidently, real life is boxy, safe and uninspiring.
No wonder we find ourselves staring into closets, whimpering not-so-quietly. Inevitably, we end up trudging down the street one more time wearing one of our dwindling collections of no-fail "default" outfits.
It's a slippery slope from here to What Not To Wear.
It's not just that we're narcissistic, whiny fashion victims. Others – some of you, actually – share our exasperation.
As one of you pointed out in an email to us recently, part of the problem is the assumptions commonly held about older women and style.
Because, tsk-tsk, it isn't "age appropriate" – that coy way of saying you're too old to wear that.
As another reader put it, "The matronly look ages anybody, as do juvenile styles on a woman over 25."
So, what the hell? The young stuff's too young, the old stuff's too gross and the nice stuff's too expensive. Which leaves us ... naked?
It's not like we're a niche market, after all. There was literally a stampede of women to H&M on opening day of Madge's new line two weeks ago.
This, despite catty comments like this one on perezhilton.com: "It sucks and it's old lady gear made for someone who feels `fashionable' in a Vegas nightclub."
Elder-bashing aside, one thing's for sure: There's a whole lot of room for improvement in ladies' fashions.
We asked, you told: In our last column we pondered whether to tell, or not to tell? (Your age, of course.) And the verdict is overwhelmingly YES!
Of the 56 of you who answered us, 66 per cent said you tell; 17 per cent said you don't; and 17 per cent say it depends on who's asking. And at least one of you claims: "Usually I do a cartwheel and then tell people how old I am. That generally shuts them up."
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Apr 6 2007, 11:17 PM
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Panty-girdle!!! A few more of these incidents and H&M will lose their profits on her polyester crap by making new signs.
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Apr 7 2007, 06:06 AM
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I checked out Oh No They Didn't, and some people thought that the ad actually looked cool with the yellow streak. If this was all meant to offend Madonna, it may not work out that well. I think it would have been more effective if they scrawled profanity or dumped more paint on her face. I think there's even a possibility that this was done by a fan of hers: more publicity, irony of "weeping Madonna" near Easter time.
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Apr 9 2007, 03:16 PM
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Madonna and Guy: A portrait of a marriage - There is talk of another album and developing her new career as a clothing designer (she [Madonna] has just launched her first range through H&M, though it must be said to a lukewarm response).
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Apr 9 2007, 03:55 PM
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LOVED the article...she deserves nothing but misery in her future and it looks like she'll be getting it sooner rather than later. Wake up Guy, it's NOT too late to revive your career. Take Rocco and run!!
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Apr 9 2007, 04:48 PM
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It looks as though someone urinated on this coat.
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Apr 9 2007, 08:48 PM
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Ah, that means it was WORN by her TOO! That sort of thing happens when you get old you know.
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Apr 10 2007, 08:57 PM
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The fans are so lame. So very lame.
Of course H&M is going to put a positive spin on how their business is doing. All businesses do this when they're having a rough time, especially big businesses, and if they're the sort who have investors thinking about buying their stock, etc.
Notice how the fan headlined this - with the word "success" in the title, although by all accounts, most of Manny's clothing line was either a flop or only did so-so.
Drowned Madonna talked with H&M about the success of ''M by Madonna'' and latest - Drowned Madonna has talked with H&M people about the sales figures of "M by Madonna" clothing line since its launching March 22nd and rumours about Madonna to launch another line this year.
When it comes to sales, H&M people can’t discuss country-specific numbers. By the way, "we are very satisfied with the selling which exeeded our expectations," they told Drowned Madonna.
"We’ve received positive reactions from our customers around the world," H&M people added.
As for the rumours about a brand new clothing line designed by Madonna to be launched later this year, "We are unable to comment on rumors or speculation," H&M people told Drowned Madonna.
Article published by Giampiero on 2007-04-10
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Apr 11 2007, 03:26 PM
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Apr 12 2007, 04:26 AM
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This is kinda funny:
Dial M for Madonna - 12th April 2007 10:45:44
H& M may have broken local laws over a telephone promotion for Madonna’s new collection.
The Swedish company used a computerised voice of Madonna to call customers to let them know about her new M range.
According to reports, many shoppers were unhappy to receive the ‘Hi It’s Madonna’ greeting to their personal telephones.
One customer Mia Jensen told the 24timer newspaper that she had not given H&M permission to contact her.
A spokesperson for H&M said Jensen, as a member of the customer club, as sent an SMS asking whether she wanted to take part in a contest.
By agreeing to take part ‘the store indicated that customers also agreed to receive information via their mobile telephones.’ Click here to find out more!
However Morten Weigand of the consumer ombudsman's office of the National Consumer Agency said:” The company must clearly state what form of communication the customer has agreed to accept per the terms.”
[by]Patricia Johnson
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Apr 13 2007, 04:50 PM
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Turns out we don't want to buy Madonna's clothes - Global & Mail, Canada - by Karen von Hahn
Those who were looking for a sign in the days leading up to Good Friday might have looked to a 250-square-foot one, right above the Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch, London.
Some time on the night of April 4 or early the next morning, a group of performance-art-minded vandals climbed the scaffolding behind a giant street billboard featuring Madonna posing for H&M, cut a hole through her left eye, and dumped an entire can of fluorescent green paint through it. And Madonna wept.
Like all signs and portents, this was fleeting.
The next day, the billboard was replaced with a fresh one at a cost to the folks at H&M of about $13,000.
But the question remains. Why was Madge weeping? Could it be that she's furious that — despite having been vigorously heralded by H&M on every major street intersection in 26 countries around the world — her celebrity fashion collection has not been as enthusiastically received as her frenemy Stella McCartney's?
According to Women's Wear Daily, the rock star has her fans, but “when it comes to fashion, she's not quite Karl Lagerfeld . . . Viktor & Rolf” or, for that matter, McCartney.
Certainly, two full weeks after the much-touted Madonna launch, which saw crowds lined up in New York, London and Paris for the March 22 opening (in an atmosphere that WWD called “more subdued compared with previous designer launches”), my neighbourhood H&M is hardly cleaned out.
But for a pretty white trench coat and the black and white jersey kimono dress, which were down to single, size 4 offerings, there were full trays of $40 M by Madonna sunglasses and brimming racks of almost everything else, including the cream sequin mini-dress supposedly snapped up by Gwyneth Paltrow.
The problem, according to Dusty, my sales associate, was the sizing. “It's really petite, so we had a lot of returns. People who came in and grabbed stuff at the beginning took the pieces home and found they didn't fit.”
A girlfriend of mine, a huge Madonna fan, was turned off by the limited palette.
“Everything was all black, just in time for spring,” said my friend, who claims she mentioned that in earshot of an H&M sales girl, who eagerly directed her to another rack, saying, “But no, there's also white.”
The official word from H&M is that there's no need to hit the panic button. “It's a bit different from other one-off collections because it's broader, and more classic,” explains Laura Shankland, advertising and PR manager for H&M Canada, who spoke with me from the airport on her way to open an H&M at the West Edmonton Mall.
“And it was always intended from the beginning to have a longer shelf life.”
The thing is, I know Madonna. Of course I don't really know her, but she has been my sidekick for so many years now it's like we've had this long-standing, if imaginary, understanding my whole adult life.
It started when we both danced to Lucky Star at Danceteria wearing rubber bracelets and ankle boots (my hair in a rag just like hers in Desperately Seeking Susan). Like a Prayer was my Walkman theme in Paris.
Okay, so she lost me for a while with her Sex book.
But after we both had our kids, I'd come home from yoga blaring Ray of Light in the car.
And lately, I've been reimagining my living room after seeing photos of her Cecil Beaton house in the English countryside.
And what I can tell you after all these years is that Madonna is not about shelf life.
Yes, as an artist, she has survived terrible hits (Like a Virgin and Papa Don't Preach), lousy movies, showing up at the Oscars dressed as Marilyn Monroe, necking with the odious Britney, even becoming an English soccer mom in tracksuits.
But the only thing classic about Madonna is that she's constantly evolving as a cultural force.
Which is why her collection for H&M is so curious. Supposedly designed after Madonna's favourite things in her own closet, it's a collection of largely black and white “basics” for the “modern woman.”
But how does a less-than-immaculately tailored simple white suit or black leather jacket say Madonna?
Even at the souvenir curiosity level, it's a disappointment. The only thing that suggests Madonna is that it's too small (one can just imagine her cracking her riding crop at us, screaming, “It's not small, you're all too fat!”).
Madonna is weeping not only because M by Madonna is essentially wrong-headed, but because all of the new celebrity designer collections are too — from the well-received (Diddy's Sean John, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B.), to the mass commercial (J. Lo), to the just-launched (“H&M Loves Kylie” Minogue in Shanghai) and the about-to-be-launched (Kate Moss for TopShop, Lily Allen for New Look and Sienna Miller for Twenty8Twelve).
What shoppers are saying in steering clear of M by Madonna is that as far as rock-star designs go, they'd rather have the tour T-shirt.
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Apr 16 2007, 06:46 PM
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How can some of these articles or headlines claim that Manny's H&M line "boosted sales" for H&M, since it didn't do well outside of Stockholm (as reported in previous news stories)?
I like how some of these articles say that the weather played a part in boosting sales. (They also attribute the rise in sales to new store locations, not to Madonna or the 'M' clothing range.)
H&M Sales Boosted by Madonna Range, Mild Weather - By Simon Johnson and Rebecka Kihlstrom
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Fashion chain Hennes & Mauritz AB posted a 29 percent surge in March sales on Monday as a hotly-anticipated line of clothes designed by pop diva Madonna went on sale.
The "M by Madonna" range, which includes a double-breasted trench coat which the singer, dubbed the "Queen of Pop" by newspapers, wears in advertisements, helped boost sales in the month, with warm weather and easy comparison figures also contributing.
H&M, with almost 1,400 stores in around 28 countries, said like-for-like sales, which measure sales in shops open at least a year, rose 17 percent. Germany, the UK and Sweden are its biggest markets.
The firm does not give a value for total sales, only the percentage increase year-on-year.
"The important thing is that we get an idea of the market. Our feeling is that it grew around 9 percent, so 17 percent like-for-like is very strong," said Mattias Karlkjell, analyst at ABG Sundal Collier.
H&M will not release specific figures for how the Manny line did.
"The trend which began in the autumn with them taking market share is continuing," Karlkjell said, pointing to higher prices, mail order shopping and a pick up in the Germany, H&M's biggest individual market, as behind the strong figures.
Shares in H&M, which are up around 26 percent so far this year, rose 1.4 percent to 436 crowns at 0940 GMT.
H&M March Sales Surge on Madonna Line, Warmer Weather - Bloomberg.com - April 16, 2007
.... H&M today said warmer weather in Europe helped increase demand after snow hurt sales in March last year.
The company [H&M] didn't provide any detailed figures about the sale of the Madonna range in today's statement.
"March was very cold last year and this year it was more normal,'' Vinge said in a phone interview."
H&M Says March Sales Rose 29 Percent - Forbes
H&M Says March Sales Rose 29 - MSN Money - STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Fashion retailer H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, which last month introduced a range of clothing co-designed by pop star Madonna, said Monday that March sales rose 29 percent as the company benefited from warmer weather and new stores.
Madonna Style Lifts H&M -Sky News
Madonna boosts sales at H&M - This Is Money
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Apr 29 2007, 11:25 PM
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Kate Can't Cut It In My Wardrobe
Excerpt: - Apr 30, 2007 / by Lucy Sweet
Take Madonna's collection for H&M. Why would we want to look like her? Last time I saw her, she resembled an aggressive yoga teacher, so why I'd be dashing off to buy her white trenchcoats is beyond me.
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Apr 29 2007, 11:27 PM
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Love the new avatar-
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Apr 29 2007, 11:33 PM
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- Apr 29 2007, 11:27 PM
Love the new avatar-
I'm glad you like it. Do you want to use it? I can switch to something else.
The URL for it is - http://antimadonna.ms11.net//avatars/m110.jpg
I made a few new avatars last week - New Avatars - I'll have to change their locations soon, though. I was having problems with hosting them at the avatar site so I put them on the Anti Manny site temporarily.
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Apr 29 2007, 11:45 PM
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Thanks- I don't want to switch, though- not sure they make the kind that would sufficiently express my opinion of mandona-
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Apr 29 2007, 11:49 PM
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Thanks- I don't want to switch, though-
Okay, then. 
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Which is one of the reasons I switch anti-Manny avatars as much as I do.
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Apr 29 2007, 11:52 PM
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If there was a mug shot of her out there, I'd be tempted.
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Apr 30 2007, 12:03 AM
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- Apr 29 2007, 11:52 PM
If there was a mug shot of her out there, I'd be tempted.
Make a habit out of checking The Smoking Gun. If there's ever a mug shot of Manny, they'd be the first ones to post it. TMZ.com would probably be the second to carry it.
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