Madonna Is New Face of Versace

Versace launches its 2005 Spring and Summer advertising campaign, starring none other than Madonna. As she was in the Versace campaign she did a decade ago, Madonna is blonde. Early reports said Madonna was paid up to $12 million for the work (which a Versace spokesperson denied) and will receive free Versace clothes for the next two years as well as free access to the Versace mansion in Milan, Italy.
The 46-year-old singer is a friend of Donatella Versace, the artistic director of the couture and luxury read-to-wear label.
Fashion photographer Mario Testino will shoot the themed ‘women in the office’ campaign. The campaign will centre on four (or maybe 10, see below) pictures (QC has found 3 so far!) of Madonna wearing day and evening wear.
According to other rumours, Mario Testino has photographed more than 500 shots of Madonna of which 10 pictures have been chosen to appear in the first series to premiere this February. A 2nd series of 10 photos will re-launch the campaign in mid-summer 2005. These photos are believed to feature Madonna’s real hair instead of the wig seen in this first set of pictures.
In other news, the pop diva has renewed her wedding vows with film-maker husband Guy Ritchie at a secret ceremony four years after they tied the knot. They swapped rings and vows in a low-key Kabbalah-based ceremony at their Ashcombe country estate in Wiltshire, in the west of England.