Lady Gaga On The Meat Dress and 19 Other Iconic Looks | Life In Looks

hello vogue this is lady gaga and i'm here to go through all my life in looks kind of nervous about this i believe this was 2008. i was backstage at mtv and i did trl total request live and this is a leotard in a hood made by muto little and the glasses that i'm wearing are actually archive versace these were the same style of sunglasses that were worn by biggie i wore these everywhere it was inspired by grace jones obviously with the hood that hair on my head is a full wig that i had sewn to my head that i never took off ever i wore probably one of three different outfits for about five years straight because that's what i could afford at the time and i wanted people always to recognize me so this was my initial iconic look you can tell from the way that i'm standing there that i already felt like a star before anything came out and i would say to anybody that's young and watching that you know if you believe in yourself you don't need other people to tell you you're great to know that you're an artist on the inside already [Music] so this was for the much music awards this was designed by tom tallman studios but i want to be very specific the jewelry that i'm wearing on this is what we called the fire bra i wanted it to shoot fire from my breasts but we decided it was safer to shoot sparks so essentially what would happen is i had a remote control in my hand that once i pressed it it triggered this fire bra to go off and what would happen was a piece of steel would rub against was essentially like a flint and it would spin very fast and the sparks would shoot off of me and i used to joke and say i need my jewelry and then they would bring me my fire bra and those are pleaser boots that we had studied i've worn the same stripper heels my entire career they're tried and true and they're worth it oh i love this one this is atsuko kudo this is when i was in england and i was uh meeting the queen and i wanted to dress like a queen in a british fashion and i also wanted to do it in my way but we thought that we would give this look of a queen a modern twist by making it in latex and at the time atsuko kudo was the only designers that i could think of that were actually tailoring latex in this way it's very difficult to tailor latex well this was a wonderful evening this was my first ever grammy awards and armani wanted to dress me and i was actually very excited to be dressed by armani because i knew that everything would be tailored perfectly and it would also be high fashion so this piece fit me absolutely perfect what's also very funny is that these shoes were stolen backstage after the show i think we found them later on ebay somewhere and we found out how to get them back i just wanted to give a very specific shout out also to frederick asparas who designed this hair he was the one who for the first time put this idea of creating this piss yellow hair color as a way of celebrating pop art in motion so if you think about liechtenstein for example the way blondes were represented was with yellow hair and this was a very special night i had just won a grammy before this happened my first grammy i went right before i wore this okay well here's me and beyonce this was created by house of gaga and perry meek me and beyonce really in this video we wanted there to be a balance between fashion and camp so we wanted to do a play on the american flag and a play on uh capitalism the inspiration for the americana vibe was that the song telephone was about being inundated with phone calls i was playing around when i wrote that song with this idea that we were as a society becoming more and more obsessed with uh interacting with each other in a way that was less real and that led me to this uh the ingesting of capitalism in a way that's not healthy for us so it's a commentary on american culture so the meat dress it's actually val garland's idea val garland the makeup artist her and i worked together for a long time and she shared a story with me where she'd gone to a party wearing sausages and i thought this was quite funny and i said well that's a great way to make sure that everybody leaves you alone at a party i was speaking with my artistic friends about if we wanted to make any statements while we were at the mtv video music awards and we did want to make a statement because at the time they were trying to repeal don't ask don't tell but we decided to do the meat dress because i thought to myself if you were willing to die for your country what does it matter how you identify this was ultimately designed by frank fernandez but it was the brainchild of house of gaga and we were backstage with brandon maxwell who was working as one of my stylists at the time he was vegan also and still helping to sew all of these last bits of meat to me and making my meat hat and my meat purse which was held by cher it smelled like meat it was thrilling to wear there's a corset under this but the corset was a sewn to the meat so this is actually a garment they didn't just drape meat over me and cross their fingers this was the mcqueen dress from his last collection that i wore and we recreated the feathers but i am wearing the armadillo heels from plato's atlantis which was the crescendo before we unfortunately lost him i've always been inspired by alexander mcqueen i think he's potentially the greatest designer of all time this dress in particular it does actually represent a lot of what i love about him which is that you know this is a bosch print and if you know anything about bosch art there's sort of these this violence and these tiny little odd things that are happening that too many are grotesque and ugly and wrong and somehow he found beauty in these things and that was a piece of him and he celebrated women and he celebrated all types of women okay so this next piece we would call this an outfit everybody calls it the egg but it's actually a vessel that was designed by hussein chilean the outfits that are worn by the models and dancers that are around me that was created by house of gaga i was very particular about the way the fashion looked for this performance in so much as the night before the performance i said the fashion's wrong we don't have it we need it to be latex we need nude latex and if you know anything about looking for latex years ago it was very difficult to find latex in any other place other than a sex shop or where we found this latex was a bus company had latex that they were using to cover the seats of their buses and we found the latex and we asked if we could buy it from them so everybody's fashion that's made here was made from the fabric of seats for a mess i was in the egg for three days to be honest at award shows especially during this time i didn't like to talk to people i always felt that it threw me off of my performance so this in a lot of ways is really representative of my devotion to my craft and that i really wanted to be with myself okay so this is joe calderon this is an alter ego that i made and i wanted to be subversive and this was my way of creating a different type of statement for myself at this time i was actually going through a breakup so i actually created this character that was my boyfriend i inhabited this character joe calderon so it was a representative of relationship representative of my father as well but everything about this was just meant to be kind of a a jersey boy gracer i'm always fully in character when i when i've been joe it's a feeling and i wanted him to be dirty and i rehearsed a lot with the boys and i have little lifts in my shoes to keep me a little bit taller because i'm short okay this is one of my favorite photo shoots that nick and i ever did nick knight and i for this outfit we had this idea of shooting me inside of what was essentially meant to be um plus placenta fluid we created this artistic goo and the goo artist was bart hess and i am wearing high heels in it i can see they look like givenchy mcqueen givenchy and i have this huge hat on that i believe is a stephen jones hat but this goo that you see on me it started out sort of in one way and then as i performed for nick for several hours the goose started to take many different forms this is a garment but this is a moving garment now this is the american music awards and i wanted to do something fun and exciting and whimsical and i thought why not come to the american music awards as the actual ad for my versace campaign with donatella so i wanted to arrive as this you know italian goddess that she had turned me into for the campaign if we'd like to include my accessories for example my purse this evening was a mechanical horse we decided to wear the horse as a way to get onto the red carpet but we wanted it to be exciting so we painted her white but guess what the horse is made out of chanel purses so that horse is my purse okay so this next look i wore this in london i believe i was leaving the langham hotel and it was during the promotion from my album art pop which was a heavily scrutinized album but i believed in putting art in the front and the whole record was about how art can mean anything to you so i often did my own takes on other artists as well as iconography throughout history so of course i visited picasso i still have those ruffle socks to this day they're about 299 and i'm wearing this uh jacket uh it's it's really actually a sweatshirt from dog in tokyo dog is a a really really dope store in the harajuku area and then frederick asparas did my hair and we were obsessed with this sort of odd combination of black and blonde at the same time tara savello was brilliant i'm a makeup artist we used a technique in harajuku makeup as a way to create anime eyes by uh creating the pupil on the eyelid and often i'll do this with fashion depending on what it is i'll hold my face in a particular way in order to get the expression across that i find interesting so in order to look like a picasso i sort of have this sort of fractured look on my face and i have one eye closed to reveal the other eye i don't think there's much that's that's more punk than this look represents a very dark time in my life but often the darkest times in my life you'll see the most joyful outfits this was created by dane henderson and vex clothing so this is inflatable it was very lightweight if this was made in any other way would be quite heavy but i was able to just run about the stage in this and this is absolute club kid culture clothing which was something that we really wanted to celebrate at the art pop ball because it was all about celebrating art celebrating music but also celebrating the way that those things come together underground this piece in particular was created on an airplane we were flying to greece and so much of artpop was inspired by greek sculptures when i landed in greece i wanted to land as the venus so we created this on an airplane so i'm wearing stripper shoes i'm wearing two metal seashells that we just had and then i've got a thong underneath and i believe that this is some sort of beach situation that i had with me because i was excited to get some sun in greece this was a performance art piece so when we got off the plane me and my my entire group of dancers we walked out to my song venus and i was wearing this outfit got dressed on the plane so this was created by jack irving this is all made of mylar and i actually was wearing a ventilation system that was pumping air into the spikes but i didn't let the spikes reveal themselves until i was standing in front of the paparazzi so when i got out of the car it just looked like a mylar cape and then in the middle of the street i pressed a button and i inflated the entire piece i was very interested in inflatable fashion at this point this was just simply to freak out the paparazzi this is a beautiful beautiful dress made by brendan maxwell felt like a princess in it and i felt like a little girl it was a very simple beautifully made black dress and i won my first oscar in that dress i remember i also had to be in charge of uh taking care of that tiffany's diamond that audrey hepburn wore no one had worn it since she wore it for breakfast at tiffany's so i was the first person to wear it and i remember i left the oscars to go to a party and i left security behind and everybody was mad at me sorry sorry tiffany's i love you and you got your diamond back [Music] this is also brandon maxwell brandon dressed me for the met gala when the theme was camp by means of the definition by susan sontag i found this to be very fun this was an entire performance that we prepared for the carpet i remember calling anna and asking her for 15 to 20 minutes to be on the red carpet and she was very kind to give us that time you know one of the things that i love about reading susan sontag's thoughts on camp was that things become camp over time so what we did with this that what brandon i thought was really a genius to do was he took us all the way sort of back to the lower east side by the end of me revealing all of these looks and it was just me in fishnets with a sequin bronze panty which is the way that i used to perform i used to call it pop burlesque meaning our version of camp was the old me i mean i think this is in some ways uh so indicative of the earlier things that we looked at if i if i could just for a moment switch back to here to me this really looks like an elevated modern progression of where i used to be and this is my album cover cecilio castillo martinez is the designer another designer on this garment is gasoline glamour and gary faye did the fingers and the hands this was a creation of a glove actually that had articulation so as i moved my fingers there was extended fingers that had joints that moved like an alien and i couldn't have possibly walked in these shoes one of them on the left side here this was about a nine inch knife a real knife and then this was a horn here on the other side and the horn was longer than the shoe this is an exercise and what i would love for people to understand is really creating art with fashion and it not being about it being functional for everyday life but about it being functional for art i love becoming art that's something i've said throughout my whole career so this is one of my favorite things i've ever worn i wore this schiaparelli design for the inauguration and nobody knows this but this is a bulletproof dress when i saw that golden dove i just knew that this was the right piece and i knew schiaparelli being a italian fashion house it was something that i really really wanted to do for my heritage as an italian-american woman that would be singing for president 45 to be leaving and to invite president 46 into office and i'll never forget um speaking to this young man that i was with and he was asking me if i was nervous and i said yes but sometimes fashion really can give you wings like a dove and speaking of schiaparelli here we are again this is from my most recent vogue shoot with the incredible stephen mizell that i have wanted to work with my entire career i try to act while i'm modeling when i saw this look i thought it was whimsical and i thought it was beautiful but when everything came together i felt that this type of privilege and wealth was the epitome of evil so you can see it in my eyes in this picture that this this woman has no soul this being has no soul but the soul i believe resides in the creation of this image and all the artists that were a part of it you [Music] were born to be brave [Music] love looking back at all my looks it was actually very emotional all of these moments in my life represent something very deep to me i felt so misunderstood for so long that i was just the girl that loved to dress crazy i was just the girl that loved fashion and that's all that i was and it felt really nice today to revisit all of these outfits and remember how particular i was about everything and revisit also the artistic spirit of it you know i do believe in art for art's sake i also believe in intentional art and i believe that you can if you choose choose to live an artistic life where art is every moment of your being in every second of every day people say all the time that they think i hid in fashion but i was never hiding i was screaming thank you vogue [Music] you

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Length: 19min 46sec (1186 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 08 2021