Madonna at Billboard's WOTY red carpet

[Americano25 63]

I think she looks fabulous. The only thing I don't like is the bow. Everything else is perfect.

[Lucas 27,088]

I've been never a fan of Madonna's style so... 

[Pierre 10,480]

Looking good and feeling fanh! The collar seems out of place, the Gucci suit needs a little of work on the fit deparment. 

[DavidJP 737]

I love the look!! 

[NCgaga 4,324]

She looks terrible. The hair is so flat and horrible, and that thing on her neck? Not a good luck. But when you're the biggest selling female artist of all time, I guess it doesn't matter. Queen. 

[2007 5,291]

Hate the look from head to toe.

[insight 2,435]

Madonna, unsurprisingly, stole the show the moment she took the stage. Her weapon? Something you can't contain, fake, reproduce or put a price on: Blunt, personal truth.

After opening with a joke -- "I always feel better with something hard between my legs" Madonna said, straddling the microphone stand -- she got candid very quickly.

"I stand before you as a doormat. Oh, I mean, as a female entertainer," Madonna said. "Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant sexism and misogyny and constant bullying and relentless abuse."

"People were dying of AIDS everywhere. It wasn’t safe to be gay, it wasn’t cool to be associated with the gay community," Madonna recalled. "It was 1979 and New York was a very scary place. In the first year I was held at gunpoint, raped on a rooftop with a knife digging into my throat and I had my apartment broken into and robbed so many times I stopped locking the door. In the years that followed, I lost almost every friend I had to AIDS or drugs or gunshots."

From that, Madonna told the Women In Music crowd she learned a vital lesson: "In life there is no real safety except for self-belief."

Madonna also talked about a lesson she thought she learned from David Bowie... only that lesson, it turned out, didn't quite apply to her. "I was of course inspired by Debbie Harry and Chrissie Hynde and Aretha Franklin, but my real muse was David Bowie. He embodied male and female spirit and that suited me just fine. He made me think there were no rules. But I was wrong. There are no rules -- if you're a boy. There are rules if you're a girl," Madonna said. 

Among those rules: "If you're a girl, you have to play the game. You're allowed to be pretty and cute and sexy. But don’t act too smart. Don’t have an opinion that's out of line with the status quo. You are allowed to be objectified by men and dress like a slut, but don’t own your sluttiness. And do not, I repeat do not, share your own sexual fantasies with the world. Be what men want you to be, but more importantly, be what women feel comfortable with you being around other men. And finally, do not age. Because to age is a sin. You will be criticized and vilified and definitely not played on the radio."

Madonna also opened up about the time in her life when she felt "like the most hated person on the planet," with her eyes tearing up and her nose running a bit. 

"Eventually I was left alone because I married Sean Penn, and not only would he would bust a cap in your ass, but I was off the market. For a while I was not considered a threat. Years later, divorced and single -- sorry Sean -- I made my Erotica album and my Sex book was released. I remember being the headline of every newspaper and magazine. Everything I read about myself was damning. I was called a ***** and a witch. One headline compared me to Satan. I said, 'Wait a minute, isn't Prince running around with fishnets and high heels and lipstick with his butt hanging out?' Yes, he was. But he was a man.

"This was the first time I truly understood women do not have the same freedom as men," she said.

Madonna also recalled that at one point in her life, during all the public vitriol, "I remember wishing I had a female peer I could look to for support. Camille Paglia, the famous feminist writer, said I set women back by objectifying myself sexually. So I thought, 'oh, if you're a feminist, you don't have sexuality, you deny it.' So I said '**** it. I'm a different kind of feminist. I'm a bad feminist.'"

Madonna also looked back on the many pop icons lost during the last decade. "I think the most controversial thing I have ever done is to stick around. Michael is gone. Tupac is gone. Prince is gone. Whitney is gone. Amy Winehouse is gone. David Bowie is gone. But I'm still standing. I'm one of the lucky ones and every day I count my blessings."

Closing out her speech, Madonna offered thanks to her haters and advice to other women in music.

"What I would like to say to all women here today is this: Women have been so oppressed for so long they believe what men have to say about them. They believe they have to back a man to get the job done. And there are some very good men worth backing, but not because they're men -- because they're worthy. As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other's worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by," she urged. 

"It's not so much about receiving this award as it is having this opportunity to stand before you and say thank you," Madonna said, closing out her speech. "Not only to the people who have loved and supported me along the way, you have no idea...you have no idea how much your support means," she said, tearing up for the second time. "But to the doubters and naysayers and everyone who gave me hell and said I could not, that I would not or I must not -- your resistance made me stronger, made me push harder, made me the fighter that I am today. It made me the woman that I am today. So thank you."

http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/women-in-music/7616927/madonna-billboard-woman-of-the-year-labrinth

[Psychedelic 1,098]

Not a fan of that look, but a big fan of her speech! QUEEN!!!  

Did she perform?

[dlioncourt91 765]

Surprise surprise at the same comments. 

[Haroon 49,685]

Not a fan of the bow, I feel like it detracts from the outfit instead of adding to it  Love all the rest though, what a beautiful print  

[Ooolong 4,440]

I love the suit, however I think the bow should've been smaller. I also wish she'd done something else with her hair, it's kinda awkward side swept. But she looks gorgeous nonetheless . 

[666 others 1,856]

She looks great! I wish both she and Gaga would go back to their original hair though. They look amazing as natural brunettes imo.

[babyboo 965]

cute

[dlioncourt91 765]

12 hours ago, Joanne Angelina said:

She looks great! I wish both she and Gaga would go back to their original hair though. They look amazing as natural brunettes imo.

THIS.

I wish M would change her hair up instead of the long, blonde, curled hair. She was stunning back in 03 for the American Life era but went back to Blonde. Gaga too especially during the ARTPOP era.

[uo111 5,265]

She always over accessorizes. If it was just the suit, it would be amazing.

But it's wayy to busy with all the other things she is wearing with the suit.