Excerpted from www.sassybella.com.

By Colleen Nika

No one knows how to “fashion” a comeback like Madonna.

Throughout the veteran music and cultural icon’s three-decade spanning career, she never lets any component of her visual or musical legacy go unchecked. When things go stale, she revamps them. If she doesn’t know how, she hires someone else to do it for her.

Now faced with accusations of falling victim to a middle-aged style crisis, Madge has retaliated by recruiting the most elite names in high fashion to conceptualize and design the wardrobe for her upcoming Sticky And Sweet Tour, which will hit European and US shores just time in for the Spring 2009 Fashion Weeks. Will Madonna’s couture showmanship outperform the industry at their own game?

At her Madgesty’s behest, Miu Miu, Tom Ford, pal Stella McCartney, YSL, Roberto Cavalli, and Jeremy Scott all contributed clothing and accessories for the singer’s Hard Candy live trek. However, the “headliner” of the Sticky And Sweet fashion parade is without a doubt Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy Haute Couture, who was commissioned to provide two completely custom outfits for Madonna. Tisci jumped at the opportunity, saying: “I feel incredibly fortunate to have been given the opportunity to offer the world of Givenchy Haute Couture to Madonna - the Icon, the Artist, the Woman for whom I have so much respect and admiration”, he says.