{"id":355166,"date":"2025-08-18T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355166\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:50:35","slug":"20-times-madonna-proved-that-she-is-and-always-will-be-the-queen-of-workout-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355166\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Times Madonna Proved That She Is (And Always Will Be) The Queen Of Workout Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTwo hours of exercise, seven days a week \u2013 including a killer program of biking 25 miles, then running five sets of 100 stairs.\u201d Laid out in extensive detail in a 1988<\/a> edition of Vogue, much has been made of Madonna<\/a>\u2019s relationship with exercise and the impossible physique it has whittled. In 1998<\/a>, she would be invited onto daytime television to demonstrate sun salutations. In 2008<\/a>, the paparazzi would camp outside her private-use gym in Holland Park. And in 2018<\/a>, she performed \u201cLike A Prayer\u201d at the Met Gala, fittingly themed around the term \u201cHeavenly Bodies\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sculpted and sinuous with rope-like veins, the public fascination with Madonna\u2019s musculature has (at times) been equal to her music. She was described as owning \u201cThe Best Arms in Hollywood<\/a>\u201d, even at 60. That the media should pore over a woman\u2019s figure is, of course, unremarkable, but the extreme lengths to which Madonna has gone to maintain a spring-loaded, athletic build might also speak to a deeper raison d\u2019etre. \u201cHer message of self-determination and brute vitality needed a physical, transmissible form,\u201d as writer Michelle Orange put it<\/a> in a New Yorker article published in October 2023. \u201cAnd we agreed to believe that the camera only appeared to be feasting on her \u2013 that she would emerge from each feat of aesthetic derring-do intact and primed for the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was reminded of those words when Madonna travelled from the O2 in London to the Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico on her 78-date (let\u2019s face it, farewell) Celebration tour in late 2023 and early 2024. Much was written about the spiral Jean Paul Gaultier<\/a> bras and Versace<\/a> catsuits and Dilara F\u0131nd\u0131ko\u011flu<\/a> corsets she wore during the spectacle \u2013 looks that rode on the charged showgirl costuming of her Confessions, Blonde Ambition and Girlie Show eras, and happily thumbed the nose at the notion of age-appropriate dressing \u2013 but it\u2019s her sweat-slicked moments that have occurred far from the stage that are, to me, often the most interesting.<\/p>\n

Before Hailey<\/a> and Kaia<\/a> and Kendall<\/a>\u2019s gym looks \u2013 all sensible tote bags, shapewear and dad trainers \u2013 there she was: tricked out in rhinestone Ed Hardy tracksuits and black-out sunglasses, her iPods and Blackberrys and house keys clenched in one superwoman fist while she was under the tutelage of celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson in the 2000s. And even before Vogue\u2019s Olivia Allen espoused<\/a> the freedom of wearing an \u201cold pyjama T-shirt from 2008\u201d (as opposed to what she described as \u201cbum-sculpting leggings\u201d) to exercise, there was Madonna: in an array of oversize Mac and Absolut Vodka T-shirts, bike shorts, wind suits, thick white socks, and logo hats while running alongside her personal trainer Robert Parr in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

On her 67th birthday, we roll back the tape on some of Madonna\u2019s most memorable workout fits, to a time pre-Yoga With Adriene, when bell-bottomed Juicy Couture tracksuits came into strange alliance with Vivenne Westwood Pirate boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTwo hours of exercise, seven days a week \u2013 including a killer program of biking 25 miles, then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[2584,1630,105,3990,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-355166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fashion","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-madonna","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115051981881142166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}