Travel Pick: Pop Culture and Cinema in Germany
Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue inspired a 2007 costume exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, and had her likeness replicated in wax four times by Madame Tussaud’s (only Queen Elizabeth II has had more models created).

'In Your Eyes' (2002), video from the album Fever, 2001. Two coloured, multi-coloured leather ribbon dress with blanket stitch detail Designed by Fee Doran for Mrs Jones.
Video directed by Dawn Shadforth
© Darenote Ltd.
Photo courtesy of V & A

The Australian pop princess, who turns 40 in May, shows no signs of slowing down in 2008. She began the year being honored by the Queen with an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her services to music, and has already earned a host of honors for X, including a BRIT Award for “Best International Female Solo Artist.”

Already certified platinum in the U.K. and Australia, X (Astralwerks / Capitol Records) is also Minogue’s first album since undergoing treatment for breast cancer, which cut short her “Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour” in 2005. On April 1st, American fans of Kylie Minogue finally got a chance to hear X the tenth studio album and first all-new set of songs since 2003’s Body Language.

Minogue kicked off her 24-date tour, entitled KYLIEX2008, in Paris. The tour includes dates in Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and a show at London's O2 arena on 27 July 2008.