Madonna and Dolce & Gabbana have gone back into the archives for Confessions II – The Film, a new visual project that turns the upcoming album into something closer to a fashion-led short film than a traditional music video. First shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and now streaming on YouTube, it blends performance, styling and set-piece storytelling in a tightly edited, high-energy format.
The collaboration builds on a partnership that stretches back to the early 1990s, and that history is visible throughout the film. Madonna moves through a series of looks pulled from both vintage and recent Dolce & Gabbana collections, from lace-trimmed slips that nod to the brand’s lingerie-inspired signatures to sharply structured corsetry and mini dresses pulled from its more theatrical archive.
One of the key sequences places her in a nightclub setting wearing a rhinestone-embellished bra top from the autumn/winter 1991 collection. It leans into a clear theme running through the film: taking 1990s fashion codes and reworking them for a present-day club environment. The styling doesn’t try to modernise the archive so much as place it back in circulation.
Sabrina Carpenter also appears in the club scenes, performing alongside Madonna in a stripped-back black look that keeps the focus on the performance rather than spectacle.
Elsewhere, the film revisits the spring/summer 1998 collection through a corseted mini dress layered with a PVC-style finish, a direct reference point to the kind of silhouettes that defined both the brand’s late-90s output and Madonna’s own Ray of Light era visuals.
The cast extends well beyond fashion circles. Kate Moss, Julia Garner, Gwendoline Christie, Benedict Cumberbatch, Shygirl, Arca and Lourdes Leon all appear across the film’s shifting scenes. The result is a deliberately crowded frame that moves between nightclub chaos, stylised performance and surreal, almost sci-fi transitions.
That mix is intentional. The film doesn’t stick to a standard music video structure, instead cutting between narrative fragments, choreography and visual experiments. It’s also where Madonna’s long-running interest in film comes through most clearly, with the project framed less as a promo and more as a standalone piece of visual storytelling.
At its core, Confessions II – The Film reflects a long-standing working relationship between Madonna and Dolce & Gabbana, built through campaigns, tour wardrobes and recurring collaborations over three decades. The archive-heavy styling acts as a reminder of how closely pop image-making and fashion design have been linked in her career.
The film is now available on YouTube, arriving ahead of the album’s release on 3 July, and adds another layer to Madonna’s current rollout — one that continues to rely on fashion as much as music to drive the narrative forward.
