Style Inspiration for the Day: "Desperately Seeking Susan"

Today I was transported to 1985 with Madonna and Rosanna Arquette in "Desperately Seeking Susan"

For those of you that haven't seen this movie- let me fill you in....

Rosanna Arquette plays Roberta, a bored housewife who begins the film getting "glammed-up" in the

beauty parlor and plays the "perfect hostess wife" reminiscent of the 1950's. Unsatisfied with her life,

she seeks adventure, stumbling upon a newspaper ad that changes her life, and look.

Madonna plays Susan, a woman that Roberta is curious to know and be. She takes on Susan's life

forgoing the silk pastel garb of wife-dom and finds...herself. 

Newspaper Ads..inherently common, yet inherently mysterious- I love the idea of chance, that
the person "Susan" could have either read the paper that day or not.

What we love about Madonna's look is the combination of opposites:

the mixture of hard and soft, the lace bra underneath sportnet

The piles of jewelry and lack of clothes

Defined makeup and "undone" loosely tousled hair

Opposites attract

Rosanna Arquette (Roberta) in the beginning stages of taking on Susan's identity.
Her look is a mixture of  "I curled my hair like I'm supposed to" and
"Guess what...make you're own damn dinner."

Madonna in rhinestone studded boots, neon, leather, and spandex

The Pyramid Jacket- unites the two women throughout the movie as both a style symbol and a cause.
The two are both owners of it at different points in the film, serving as a "walk in my shoes" tool.