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Just in case anyone needed reminding, Madonna has once again set out to prove she’s not letting age change her ways.

The 52-year-old has posed for yet another racy Dolce & Gabanna spread, this time while wearing an incredibly low-cut black body suit and thigh-high stockings.

Accessorized with sunglasses, a crucifix and a red string Kabbalah bracelet, she prowls around an unmade bed with her cleavage threatening to spill out of her lingerie.

In another frame, she reclines on white sheets accompanied by a black and white cat.

Madonna struck up a friendship with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana while she was filming Dick Tracy in the early Nineties and they were invited to designer her costumes for The Girlie Show tour in 1993.

The Italian designer duo announced their new collaboration with Madonna last year, which came after she spent her birthday with the pair on-board this yacht in Italy last August.

They said at the time: ‘To have Madonna in our campaign is a dream come true.’

Madonna has since launched a fashion label of her own with her teen daughter Lourdes called Material Girl.

Meanwhile, there are mounting rumours Madonna will be performing on the X Factor’s first live broadcast on October 9.

The show is already renowned for drawing in some of the biggest names in the music business, with past performers including Beyonce, who dueted with 2008 winner Alexandra Burke on the program.

A source told the Daily Mirror that she has verbally agreed to appear on the show, saying: ‘Madonna would be perfect to kick-off the last stage of the competition.’

Aimed at the teenage market the look of the range has been put together by this famous mother and daughter partnership. The official launch was at Macys on the 3rd August and hundreds of people queued to get the first look and to snatch up a few free giveaways.

Lourdes aka Lola spoke about the clothing line on the official Material Girl website ‘Ok may I just say, not to brag or anything, but its pretty awesome and I do like the clothes a lot.’ She goes on to say ‘I’m not the designer of the line but my mom and I inspired it and do the styling and the putting together, staying on trend’

The Madonna and Lourdes inspired clothing range ‘Material Girl’ will only be available from Macys.

Pop superstar Madonna is planning to give her New York townhouse a major revamp by splashing out $1.7 million on renovations, including her own private gym.

The Material Girl recently purchased a $32 million property in Manhattan’s Upper East Side and she has filed applications with city authorities for building permits to add another floor to the lavish home.

The paperwork details Madonna’s plans to gut the existing bed and bathrooms and create a new master suite on the third floor with a walk in closet, while she wants to have a hair salon and luggage room across the hall, reports the New York Post.

If all goes to plan, the finished product will boast 10 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, complete with a wine cellar and playroom for her son Rocco and adopted kids David and Mercy.

Madonna is also mother to teenage daughter Lourdes.

With the indentations left by fishnets still visible across her midriff, here is the proof that Madonna is still confident enough in her figure to do away with the airbrush.

Admittedly the soft lighting must have helped create these rather appealing shots.

But this is Madonna in all her glory, smouldering into the camera like a model half her 51 years.

She seductively tugs at her underwear, kisses a crucifix – she just can’t resist, can she? – and puts on an eye-patch in her latest spread for Interview magazine.

It comes as a surprise to see the Queen of Pop in a more natural light, especially as she’s appeared in so many airbrushed campaigns over the years, recently for the likes of Louis Vuitton.

But she has been looking more youthful than ever of late, notwithstanding a few unfortunate pictures of her arms. But in these shots, the good lighting ensures her arms appear less sinewy than usual.

Now she can add to her repertoire these impressive new photographs, which were shot by Mert Atlas and Marcus Piggot for a spread in the June edition of Interview magazine.

In the interview Madonna speaks to American film director Gus Van Sant and reveals she is now heavily focused on her film career and doesn’t have the energy to sing any more.

She told Gus, the man behind films including Milk and Good Will Hunting, that her new movie W.E. – about the British Royal family – had taken over her life.

The 51-year-old, who has starred in film including Evita, has spent the past two-and-a-half years writing the film.

It tells the tale Britain’s King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.

But the she admitted that the task has left her little room to contemplate making another album.

The last studio album she released was Hard Candy in April 2008 with Warner Bros. Records.

It was her eleventh and final studio album with the record company before a greatest hits album Celebration, which was released last September, marking the end of a 25-year recording history.

Talking to Interview magazine, she told film director Gus: ‘I’ve been writing it for the last two and a half years, to tell you the truth. It’s been kind of an obsession of mine.’

But regarding her next album, she continued: ‘I don’t have a record deal right now with anybody.

‘I don’t know how I’m going to get my music out the next time I make a record.

‘I haven’t really been focused as much as I should be on the music part of my career, because this movie has consumed every inch of me.

‘Between that and my children, I don’t have the time or energy for anything else.’

She also admitted that she ‘cried and cried’ when she watched her ex-husband Sean Penn portray a homosexual politician in the 2008 film Milk, which Gus Van Sant directed.

Mother-of-four Madonna said: ‘Milk was such a brilliant film. I cried and cried. I loved it. He (Penn) is amazing… I could see why he would be attracted to the role and be able to say yes in two seconds. Watching Milk was such a trip down memory lane for me.’

Penn won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Harvey Milk in the movie.

Read the entire interview and see more exclusive photos at the Interview Magazine website:

www.interviewmagazine.com/music/madonna