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The eye-popping performance, and the 18th century finery, were like nothing the MTV audience had seen before…except some probably had. The gown Madonna wore on stage that night had been created by costume designer James Acheson and had actually graced the big screen almost two years earlier, when it had been worn by Glenn Close as the Marquise de Merteuil in the award-winning 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.