They allow you to really look at where you’re going. I don’t think we got it right in some ways, but if I look back over my career, sometimes it’s the mistakes that make all the difference. And if you’re going to have any costume changes, that’s inevitable.
“She helped create the template of what a pop show is, or what we came to know it as, by dividing it up into segments. Madonna was a big influence on me,” says Minogue. “Of course those comparisons were made, and rightly so. He dressed her in fishnets, G-strings and corsets the British press said she was trying too hard and imitating Madonna at her most sexed-up. On 1991’s Let’s Get To It tour of the UK, Minogue welcomed onboard her first major fashion designer - John Galliano. Minogue’s career accelerated so quickly that by 1991 she was on her fourth album in as many years and outgrowing her producers, Stock Aitken Waterman, who wanted to freeze-frame her in a safe, clean-cut image. Next year marks her 30th anniversary in pop longevity that hasn’t happened by accident. It would be the first time her success silenced those who saw her as an easy target.
Before her first Australian solo tour, she performed a secret club show billed as The Singing Budgies - reclaiming the derisive nickname the media had bestowed on her. I literally used to wear that exact same kind of thing, except it was leather, not PVC.”īy 1990, Minogue’s confidence had grown, something she’s partially attributed to Hutchence’s influence. It just made so much sense for the connection to Michael. “It was a black PVC trench coat and hat,” she says. Her “Need You Tonight” costume was also deliberately chosen to reflect what Minogue used to wear when she was dating the rockstar. Minogue said then it felt like Michael was her “archangel” during the tour - “I feel like he’s with me.”
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“But that’s a **** song.”īefore the Kiss Me Once tour kicked off, the Minogue/Hutchence romance had been documented in the hit TV mini-series Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story Of INXS. “I don’t think I really knew what **** was back then,” notes Minogue. She remembers first hearing the song as a teenager. The tour went on to Japan and he definitely came to visit me in Japan.”įast-forward from Minogue’s very first tour to her most recent, 2015’s Kiss Me Once, and the singer performed a cover of INXS’s “Need You Tonight”. “I had met Michael previously in Australia, but he was living in Hong Kong and I met him again there. That first tour stands out for one other reason: Minogue officially started dating INXS’s Michael Hutchence at some point during the Asian leg. “There were also quite a few bicycle pants being worn around that time, too, I’m afraid.” “Those ones were more like micro shorts, not quite hotpants, but they started it,” she admits. I just ran back and forth across the stage,” says Minogue of her debut tour.ĭisco in Dream also premiered what would become a Kylie fashion staple: hotpants. “From memory, I was overexcited and didn’t really know what I was doing. Still aged just 21 and dismissed by some as a soap star who fluked a singing career, Minogue found herself playing to 38,000 fans in Tokyo, where her early hits “I Should Be So Lucky”, “The Loco-motion”, “Got To Be Certain” and “Hand On Your Heart” had made her a superstar.
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This new - and free - exhibition rounds up outfits starting from her first-ever live performances on 1989’s Disco in Dream tour. She’s previously donated a swarm of outfits to the venue, going all the way back to the overalls she wore as tomboy mechanic Charlene on Neighbours. Kylie On Stage is the singer’s latest collaboration with her beloved hometown’s Arts Centre Melbourne. “I, too, do the same thing as everyone else: ‘Mum, Dad, can you just hold onto a few things for me?’ It’s just lucky they weren’t turfed out from under their watchful eye.” “There were a few items the parentals were minding,” laughs Minogue. WHEN Kylie Minogue began the process of tracking down 25 years of costumes and memorabilia for an exhibition on her (literally) glittering stage career, she had one crucial call to make. Like it's fine because this is the farthest anyone has come in this sinking sandįor together we can take control of the helm
I'm sorry if this is coming off too harshīut for some Shiraz, soulful indie music and romantic dancing in the dark. I'm not saying there is one without blemishĪs if they are the ones you didn't give Kylie to. In the hideous name of "not catching feelings"
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