Madonna, 67, grabs her chest as she poses in a corset for Vogue Italia
Madonna has posed for another provocative magazine cover, starring on the latest issue of Vogue Italia.
The music superstar, 67, wowed in a series of shots from renowned Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti.
Dressed in pieces from her own personal archive, the singer is seen grabbing her chest with her head thrown back in ecstasy in one racy shot.
She chose a nude corset and fishnet tights for the shoot, adding glittering gold heels, and bizarrely some pink kneepads. The look was completed with her pink-tinged locks.
In the accompanying interview, the star teased her anticipated new album Confessions II, which she will drop on July 3.
Serving as a sequel to her highly successful 2005 record and reuniting her with producer Stuart Price, the record has been inspired by the star's enduring love of a dancefloor.
Madonna has posed for another provocative magazine cover, starring on the latest issue of Vogue Italia
'Every dancefloor is a ritual place where you free your body and mind, anxiety goes away and you have the opportunity to perhaps reach a deeper state of consciousness,' she told Vogue.
She added that 'of course' she still dances. 'I do it for work, but also in the kitchen, after dinner, with my children... dance has created a trajectory for me, it has allowed me to escape from what I considered a rather prosaic life in the Midwest, to go to New York and pursue my dreams.'
The singer - who is mother to Lourdes, 29, Rocco, 25, David, 20, Mercy, also 20, and 13-year-old twins Stella and Estere adds that her other form of escapism is her tendency to 'disappear' from social media and the online world when she is working on new music.
She said: 'Lately it's been hard because of my record and so many things connected to it. But I do like to take breaks… and disappear. Because that's how you fuel your imagination.'
'You have to have stillness and you have to have days where you're just connecting to nature, my children, my horses.'
The Ray of Light singer also slammed the use of artificial intelligence, and said she believes there is too much pressure on musicians to have an online following rather than focusing on their work.
The music superstar, 67, wowed in a series of shots from renowned Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti and dressed in pieces from her own personal archive
She chose a nude corset and fishnet tights for the shoot, adding glittering gold heels, and bizarrely some pink kneepads. The look was completed with her pink-tinged locks
She told Vogue: 'Once you were around painters and musicians and dancers and artists in one place and working from a very pure place for each other. I value that experience a lot.'
'Nowadays you don't do that anymore. Now to have a record deal you think about how many followers you have.
'That's why in Bring Your Love I say, 'Don't try to distract me with numbers'. For me it started not thinking about the charts, the streaming numbers.
'Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the opposite of making art.'
The full interview is featured in the July 2026 issue of Vogue Italia, available on newsstands from June 30 and online at vogue.it.
"What I will never do is give up" – Kimmich rules out international retirement after Germany's World Cup exit
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Germany captain Joshua Kimmich is not considering retiring from international football after Monday's heartbreaking World Cup exit to Paraguay.
"I'll always have the determination to make another attempt. What I will never do is give up," Kimmich told MagentaTV after the match.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe 31-year-old, who was also part of the squads that crashed out in the group stage at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, converted his penalty in the shootout. However, it wasn't enough to prevent another disappointing tournament exit.
"I grew up in Germany watching the national team on television, and it always seemed to be the semifinals or the final. Of course, you want to give today's children, the people, and this generation that same experience. The fact is, we weren't able to give the people back home that," Kimmich said.
According to Kimmich, everyone in the team must take full responsibility for the latest failure.
“It's a real shame, especially at a time when it would do us so much good to have something in Germany we can be proud of. Unfortunately, the national team isn't that right now, and we all share responsibility for it,” he said.
"We have to take responsibility – no one can distance themselves from it. We have to own it, because we, the players who were on the pitch, are the ones who messed it up."
Taylor Swift won over Kelce's skeptical friend in backstage encounter
Taylor Swift won over another new fan in Travis Kelce's friend Taylor Lewan, days before the American power couple are expected to get married at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Swift joined Kelce last week for his annual 'Tight End University' - an event he helps plan for practice and networking with players who play in the position where the Kansas City Chiefs star made his name.
Swift has sprinkled some stardust over the last two events with a brief performance at the concert they host each year and this time, ex-NFL man turned podcast host Lewan got to witness Swift preparing to perform backstage.
Speaking on his popular Bussin' With The Boys podcast, Lewan explained: 'I'll just tell you this, dude - I was kind of into her music when I was younger. I haven't been super into it since then. It is just not my genre.
'The girl is incredible. What a performer. We are sitting backstage for a moment and she's about to go out. She's got a cluster, she's got a gaggle of individuals with her. But she's in the back before she walks out and you can see her just getting in the zone.
'I remember just looking at her being like "it is so cool that somebody who is as successful as she is, as famous as she is, she just handles her business the correct way at all times".
Taylor Swift stunned fans with a surprise performance at Travis Kelce's Tight End University
Swift joined Travis Kelce (left) alongside Claire Kittle, George Kittle, Greg Olsen and Talbot Olsen (L-R) at the opening event of Tight End University on Monday
Bussin' With The Boys host Taylor Lewan was impressed by Swift's performance last week
'And for her to sit back, get in the zone and go out and put on a performance, whether it was three minutes or five minutes, it was a very short amount of time, but the pop from the crowd... everybody in that moment felt like she was singing individually to them. And I thought that was just awesome.'
Swift joined Lainey Wilson on the stage to perform her hit 'Love Story' and dedicated it to Kelce's friend and rival tight end George Kittle, who plays for San Francisco 49ers.
'She probably misses ball!' Lewan joked about the lengthy NFL offseason. 'She misses ball a little bit, dude! But she was awesome. It was just really cool to watch people who are outliers in their craft perform.
'And I thought she is clearly that, the biggest superstar in the world. It is just awesome to see all that going down, all while our boy Trav is just bobbing around, stoked to kind of like be there.'
Swift and Kelce are expected to tie the knot this weekend in New York at the city's most iconic venue.
There were people in the industry who wondered if their plans to marry at MSG were a high-profile decoy but Daily Mail earlier this week shared pictures of equipment getting loaded into the venue, seemingly in preparation for the big day.
It remains to be seen if Lewan is going. He has known Kelce for around 10 years but the guestlist has been kept quiet and those attending have been sworn to secrecy.
And if, as Lewan suggested, Swift is missing football then she doesn't have too much longer to wait.
Kelce's Chiefs team start the season with a Monday Night Football showdown against AFC West rivals Denver Broncos on September 14 at Arrowhead Stadium.
