Lady Gaga by Paul Lester

Author:Paul Lester [Lester, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-85712-466-1
Publisher: Music Sales Corp.
Published: 2010-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Fashion – Turn To The Left!

“What I’d like people to know is that as fabulous as I may look in a magazine, it’s who I am. This isn’t a ploy for people’s attention. This is me.”

– Lady Gaga

Of course, there was plenty about Lady Gaga that did meet the ear and eye. Especially the eye. Since coming to the public’s attention in 2008, she has been photographed in a staggering number of – and a number of staggering – outfits, ranging from the unexpected to the extreme, and from the extraordinary to the positively extraterrestrial.

We have seen her wearing a dress made entirely of green Kermit the frog puppets and another made of Post-it notes, an outfit comprising a hooded white leotard, a black leather bodysuit with matching space-age jacket featuring angular shoulders and topped off with black John Lennon specs, and yet another one that appeared to consist of nothing but a pair of blue Dralon curtains.

We’ve also seen her done up as a cross between Barbarella and a British bobby, as a futuristic Spanish widow, and as a sort of woman-sized sun complete with see-through red negligee and rays emanating from the back of her head. We’ve seen her in outfits seemingly made variously out of Perspex, mirrors and glass, and ones so tight and revealing they leave little to the imagination, let alone any room for a penis – she has been dogged by rumours that she is actually a hermaphrodite ever since she came to the world’s attention.

It should come as no surprise, then, to discover that Gaga once declared, “Fashion is everything to me.” It was perhaps inevitable that she would assemble around her her very own team of designers, one that she christened the Haus of Gaga, so named in honour of the Bauhaus (the early-20th century German arts and crafts school) and summoned forth in the spirit of Andy Warhol’s Factory. The job of the Haus of Gaga has been to collaborate with her on her clothing, her stage sets, her props and her sounds, and their Warhol-esque agenda has been to provoke a reaction and confront and confound expectation.

“It’s my creative team and it was really organic,” she has said of the creation of the Haus of Gaga. “I was a bit frustrated at the beginning, being so new to the business and going forward with a major label. I wanted to put my own money into the show because, when you’re a new artist, you kind of have to prove yourself. I was making money as a songwriter and I didn’t want a condo or a car because I don’t drive and I’m never fucking home, so I just wanted to put all my money into my performance.”

She explained that, to assemble Team Gaga, she called “all my coolest art friends and we sat in a room and I said that I wanted to make my face light up. Or that I wanted to make my cane light up. Or that I wanted to make a pair of dope sunglasses.

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