Madonna’s long obsession with youth has been carefully documented over the years. Unfortunately for her, the younger she tries to look, the more the press focuses in on every new wrinkle and sag. Aging is inevitable – even if you go under the knife. It just becomes a matter of whether you want to age like a normal looking person or like an alien looking person. Quite often, Madge seems to have chosen the later.

When the surgeon’s scalpel can’t provide you with the look you’re looking for, why not turn to the next best thing? Dr. Photoshop. Sure, he can be a little capricious and is known to be a bit heavy handed. But his work is nearly guaranteed – though it doesn’t last long. And that’s exactly who Madonna seems to have visited for her ridiculous touch ups for her latest Louis Vuitton ads.

Madonna somehow always manages to hold the ageing process back, however for her latest campaign she seems to have turned back time. But the lengths to which Louis Vuitton has gone to keep Madonna looking eternally youthful may be a bit extreme, with the Material Girl looking almost plastic in this latest ad. In particular, the fingers of her right hand seem to have been stuck on – are they someone else’s? Or just bleached to white through airbrushing?

Photo editors seem to have shaved at least 20 years off the megastar, leaving her looking more like Sophie Dahl than her true 50-year-old self. In place of her typically veiny hands – renowned for giving away the true age of a woman – her fingers were smooth and slender. In the ad, Madonna looks ethereal as she reclines in a blue armchair were a burgundy taffeta dress, lacy fingerless gloves and pink bunny ears – similar to the antenna-style headwear she wore to the Costume Institute Gala earlier this year.

While Madonna is in undeniably good shape for a 50-year-old woman, she looks far too young to be a mother-of-four in the new shots for Louis Vuitton’s Autumn/Winter ’09 collection. The Vogue singer posed for acclaimed photographer Steven Meisel, who shot her controversial 1992 book Sex, who also took the previous season’s ad. The latest campaign makes Madonna look a little more innocent than what has come before. The last Louis Vuitton advertisement in December was certainly more raunchy.

The singer has reportedly been paid £6.5million for the campaign.

[From the Daily Mail]

Not to be a total snot, but Madonna looks totally ridiculous. I mean she looks beautiful, but airbrushing to this extent just draws more attention to the work, and makes you think even more about how she normally looks. In the long run it reminds you more of aging, not youth.

I think Madonna must have one of those magic ass kissing mirrors like in “Snow White.” That’s the most reasonable explanation I can come up with for how she’d think this looks realistic.