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

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

TASSEL HASSLE

Another day, another controversy! In the 1986 clip for "Open Your Heart," Madonna played an exotic dancer – tassels, fishnets and all – who befriends a minor after he sneaks into her strip club. Although groups protested the use of the youth, Madonna later described the clip as a statement about innocence.