Madonna wears post punk ‘street' fashion in silly chick flick, Desperately Seeking Susan and creates global fashion.

Madonna uses clothes - along with her body and her music - to get noticed. A year after her saucy song, Like A Virgin, topped the charts (aided by a video shown on new cult music station, MTV), the fledgling pop starlet pulled herself up by her signature bra-straps and landed herself a part in a movie. The inborn stylist in her drew on London and New York street fashion to help her create a costume for the flighty Susan, a mélange of post-punk gothic black lace, vintage '50s tutu, underwear, fetish gloves and clattering crosses. Her look made us ask, "Who's That Girl?" It was the first - but not the last - time Madonna picked up significant trends bubbling under and hurled them into mainstream. (NB. this look is still being worn in downtown Tokyo by Harajuku girls).