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Oh I definitely agree about Gaga at times taking from the past and making things her own. As she said, its not as if shes trying to reinvent the wheel since everything has already been done.
I don't think however that the A.L. performance was the inspiration for Gaga performing and behaving as Jo for the entire night. *shrugs*
The Jo Calderone persona first appeared last year on the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan. Nobody knew just how far Gaga would take the character.
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Thanks for posting, Boomer & Teja. 
I just finished reading Gaga's latest writeup for V and it is by far my favorite.
Date: September 2011
Re: Extreme Critic Fundamentalism
From: M†SS. GAGA
To: Stephen Gan
Copy to:
Ms. Vreeland
Haus of Gaga
Nicola Formichetti
V Collective
Little Monsters
The World
Art Historians
Intellectuals
Journalists
Columnists
Cathy Horyn
Doesn’t the integrity of the critic become compromised when their writings are consistently plagued with negativity? When the public is no longer surprised or excited by the unpredictability of the writer, but rather has grown to expect the same cynicism from the same cynic? When we can predict the same predictable review from the same predictable reviewer? Accomplished creators of fashion and music have a visceral effect on the world, which is consequently why they are publicly distinguished. So why do so many notable critics seem so impervious to the emotion of the work? Why such indifference? Does intellectualism replace feeling? It’s so easy to say something is bad. It’s so easy to write, “One star, hated it, worst show of the season.” It’s much more challenging to reckon with and analyze a work. It requires research, but maybe no one does their research anymore. So my question, V readers, is this: when does the critique or review become insult and not insight? Injury and not intellect?
I’m going to propose a term to describe this movement in critical journalism: Extreme Critic Fundamentalism. I define this term as instilling fear in the hopes and dreams of young inventors in order to establish an echelon of tastemakers. There is a difference between getting a B- in Biology with a series of poignant red marks from your teacher and being given a spanking with a ruler by an old nun. The former we can learn from, while the latter is just painful. The artist is the general and captain of his or her artistic ship, always ready and willing to take the first blow and drown if an iceberg is hit. But in reviews, should critics not reveal all the scientific, mathematical, and pertinent information to explain why the Titanic could not withstand the blow, or why other cruise ships were successful?
* The temperature of the water.
* The construction of the ship.
* The weight of the cargo.
* The number of passengers.
* The disorganization of the crew.
Where my argument leads is to the perspective space of art, which is subjective and not ultimately rooted in mathematics or physics. Is it not even more critical for fashion and art critics to be profusely informed not only in art history but in the subliminal? The public operates with the assumption that critics are experts in their respective fields. But are they? Does every critic have the soul to really receive a work in the transcendental sense? The out-of-body experience of art?
In the age of the Internet, when collections and performances are so accessible to the public and anyone can post a review on Facebook or Twitter, shouldn’t columnists and reviewers, such as Cathy Horyn, employ a more modern and forward approach to criticism, one that separates them from the average individual at home on their laptop? The public is certainly not stupid, and as Twitter queen, I can testify that the range of artistic and brilliant intellectuals I hear from on a daily basis is staggering and inspiring. In the year 2011, everyone is posting reviews. So how does someone like Ms. Horyn separate herself from the online pack? The reality of today’s media is that there are no echelons, and if they’re not careful, the most astute and educated journalists can be reduced to gossipers, while a 14-year-old who doesn’t even have a high school locker yet can master social media engines and, incidentally, generate a specific, well-thought-out, debatable opinion about fashion and music that is then considered by 200 million people on Twitter. Take Tavi Gevinson. She’s 15, and Rodarte created an entire project inspired by her. Her site is thestylerookie.com. I adore her, and her prodigious and well-written blog is the future of journalism. The paparazzi has similarly been usurped by the camera-toting everyman. That magical moment of the movie star posing in front of the Metropolitan Museum is no longer so magical. Now everyone has a ****ing cell phone and can take that same ****ing picture.
Why do we harp on the predictability of the infamous fashion critic? The predictability of the most notoriously harsh critics who continue writing their notoriously harsh reviews? Why give the elephant in the room a peanut if it has already snapped its trunk at you? That peanut was dead on arrival. To be fair, Ms. Horyn, the more critical question to ask is: when did the pretense of fashion become more important than its influence on a generation? Why have we decided that one person’s opinion matters more than anyone else’s? Of all the legendary designers I have been blessed to work with, the greatest discovery has been their kindness and their lack of pretense. They care not for hierarchy or position. They are so good, and so precise, that all that matters to them while they’re pinning their perfectly customized garment to my body is the way it makes me feel. Perhaps the pretension belongs in formaldehyde. And the hierarchy is embalmed — for us all to remember nostalgically, and honor that it once was modern, but is now irrelevant. Peanut.
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So excited to see the new version(s) of You & I. The original music video has surpassed Judas as my favorite by her. B)
Gaga + Inez + Vinoodh (past collaboration)
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I just finished reading Gaga's latest writeup for V and it is by far my favorite.
Date: September 2011
Re: Extreme Critic Fundamentalism
From: M†SS. GAGA
To: Stephen Gan
Copy to:
Ms. Vreeland
Haus of Gaga
Nicola Formichetti
V Collective
Little Monsters
The World
Art Historians
Intellectuals
Journalists
Columnists
Cathy Horyn
Doesn’t the integrity of the critic become compromised when their writings are consistently plagued with negativity? When the public is no longer surprised or excited by the unpredictability of the writer, but rather has grown to expect the same cynicism from the same cynic? When we can predict the same predictable review from the same predictable reviewer? Accomplished creators of fashion and music have a visceral effect on the world, which is consequently why they are publicly distinguished. So why do so many notable critics seem so impervious to the emotion of the work? Why such indifference? Does intellectualism replace feeling? It’s so easy to say something is bad. It’s so easy to write, “One star, hated it, worst show of the season.” It’s much more challenging to reckon with and analyze a work. It requires research, but maybe no one does their research anymore. So my question, V readers, is this: when does the critique or review become insult and not insight? Injury and not intellect?
I’m going to propose a term to describe this movement in critical journalism: Extreme Critic Fundamentalism. I define this term as instilling fear in the hopes and dreams of young inventors in order to establish an echelon of tastemakers. There is a difference between getting a B- in Biology with a series of poignant red marks from your teacher and being given a spanking with a ruler by an old nun. The former we can learn from, while the latter is just painful. The artist is the general and captain of his or her artistic ship, always ready and willing to take the first blow and drown if an iceberg is hit. But in reviews, should critics not reveal all the scientific, mathematical, and pertinent information to explain why the Titanic could not withstand the blow, or why other cruise ships were successful?
* The temperature of the water.
* The construction of the ship.
* The weight of the cargo.
* The number of passengers.
* The disorganization of the crew.
Where my argument leads is to the perspective space of art, which is subjective and not ultimately rooted in mathematics or physics. Is it not even more critical for fashion and art critics to be profusely informed not only in art history but in the subliminal? The public operates with the assumption that critics are experts in their respective fields. But are they? Does every critic have the soul to really receive a work in the transcendental sense? The out-of-body experience of art?
In the age of the Internet, when collections and performances are so accessible to the public and anyone can post a review on Facebook or Twitter, shouldn’t columnists and reviewers, such as Cathy Horyn, employ a more modern and forward approach to criticism, one that separates them from the average individual at home on their laptop? The public is certainly not stupid, and as Twitter queen, I can testify that the range of artistic and brilliant intellectuals I hear from on a daily basis is staggering and inspiring. In the year 2011, everyone is posting reviews. So how does someone like Ms. Horyn separate herself from the online pack? The reality of today’s media is that there are no echelons, and if they’re not careful, the most astute and educated journalists can be reduced to gossipers, while a 14-year-old who doesn’t even have a high school locker yet can master social media engines and, incidentally, generate a specific, well-thought-out, debatable opinion about fashion and music that is then considered by 200 million people on Twitter. Take Tavi Gevinson. She’s 15, and Rodarte created an entire project inspired by her. Her site is thestylerookie.com. I adore her, and her prodigious and well-written blog is the future of journalism. The paparazzi has similarly been usurped by the camera-toting everyman. That magical moment of the movie star posing in front of the Metropolitan Museum is no longer so magical. Now everyone has a ****ing cell phone and can take that same ****ing picture.
Why do we harp on the predictability of the infamous fashion critic? The predictability of the most notoriously harsh critics who continue writing their notoriously harsh reviews? Why give the elephant in the room a peanut if it has already snapped its trunk at you? That peanut was dead on arrival. To be fair, Ms. Horyn, the more critical question to ask is: when did the pretense of fashion become more important than its influence on a generation? Why have we decided that one person’s opinion matters more than anyone else’s? Of all the legendary designers I have been blessed to work with, the greatest discovery has been their kindness and their lack of pretense. They care not for hierarchy or position. They are so good, and so precise, that all that matters to them while they’re pinning their perfectly customized garment to my body is the way it makes me feel. Perhaps the pretension belongs in formaldehyde. And the hierarchy is embalmed — for us all to remember nostalgically, and honor that it once was modern, but is now irrelevant. Peanut.
VMagazine.com
So excited to see the new version(s) of You & I. The original music video has surpassed Judas as my favorite by her. B)
Gaga + Inez + Vinoodh (past collaboration)
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Thanks as always LS!!
No problem.
Though I wasn't crazy about Gaga's prosthetic phase, I liked her Harper's Bazaar shoot. Thanks for sharing. B)Libra Skye18
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Lady Gaga Makes Vanity Fair’s Influential Business People List
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Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are the only musicians to make Vanity Fair magazine’s new list, which ranks the most influential business people in the world who are “an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies and entrepreneurs, who quite often sport hoodies, floppy hair and backpacks.”
Gaga came in at No. 9 and is the highest-ranking woman and entertainer, as well as the youngest person on the “New Establishment” list.
1. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
2. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google
3. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
4. Tim Cook and Jonathan Ive, Apple
5. Jack Dorsey, Square, Twitter
6. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
7. Reed Hastings, Netflix
8. John Lasseter, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios
9. Lady Gaga, singer
10. Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg L.P.
11. Dick Costolo, Twitter
12. Mark Pincus, Zynga
13. Jim Breyer, Accel Partners
14. Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Graham King, Movies
15. Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
-GGD
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Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z are the only musicians to make Vanity Fair magazine’s new list, which ranks the most influential business people in the world who are “an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies and entrepreneurs, who quite often sport hoodies, floppy hair and backpacks.”
Gaga came in at No. 9 and is the highest-ranking woman and entertainer, as well as the youngest person on the “New Establishment” list.
1. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
2. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google
3. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
4. Tim Cook and Jonathan Ive, Apple
5. Jack Dorsey, Square, Twitter
6. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
7. Reed Hastings, Netflix
8. John Lasseter, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios
9. Lady Gaga, singer
10. Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg L.P.
11. Dick Costolo, Twitter
12. Mark Pincus, Zynga
13. Jim Breyer, Accel Partners
14. Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Graham King, Movies
15. Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
-GGD
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Thanks Anet for the compliment and likewise. 
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga- The Lady Is A Tramp (Snippet)
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga- The Lady Is A Tramp (Snippet)
Rats, here I was expecting a New York CITY(as Gaga would say) catfight... 
Lady Gaga considers herself a fashionable artist and doesn't like an influential American fashion writer saying she isn't. Gaga 'writes' back in 'V' mag.
If you're gonna call Lady Gaga names expect her to fight, or in this case, write, back. The innovative singer, musician and songwriter is also a (self-appointed?) player in the fashion world. She's been praised and criticized for her approach to fashion and on Sept. 1, 2011, she threw some barbs at one of her most ardent fashion critics.
In her column in 'V' magazine, the 'Born This Way' Gaga retorted to New York Times fashion critic Kathy Horyn's many prose attack on her. As fans of hers may expect, Lady Gaga is not one to hold back when she has the proverbial bee in her proverbial fashionable bonnet.
The 54-year-old Horyn has repeatedly criticized Gaga's fashion choices and when writing on Gaga's Edge of Glory video in June of 2011, she said the former Stefani Germanotta looked "embalmed." In a June of 2010 'On the Runway' blog she went so far as to call Gaga an "ugly duckling with some spook appeal." Fighting words, no? It appears yes.
Lady Gaga Writes Back at Fashion Critic
"Doesn’t the integrity of the critic become compromised when their writings are consistently plagued with negativity? Gaga wrote in 'V' about Horyn. "When the public is no longer surprised or excited by the unpredictability of the writer, but rather has grown to expect the same cynicism from the same cynic?
"It’s so easy to write, “One star, hated it, worst show of the season.” It’s much more challenging to reckon with and analyze a work. It requires research, but maybe no one does their research anymore. So my question, V readers, is this: when does the critique or review become insult and not insight? Injury and not intellect?"
Fashion Wars: Lady Gaga v. Cathy Horyn
It is likely Horyn will not care greatly about Gaga's words. She has said she has stopped following Lady Gaga's tweets and when Lady Gaga's meat dress was embalmed and put on display in the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' in Cleveland, Horyn didn't write on it. Considering Time Magazine called the dress the fashion statement of the year that's a large dis.
Why does Gaga care? Is it simply that she does not like to be criticized? It may be the tenor of the criticisms - the "ugly duckling" remark must hurt - but in the final analysis it seems a mute point. Gaga has again gotten her name in the news with the column and placed herself in the fashion conversation. She obviously wants to be there.
Horyn has neither written nor commented on Gaga's column.
Suite101.com
EDIT: The NY Daily News weighed in as well...
This past June, she trashed Gaga's wearing of vintage Versace in her video "Edge of Glory," saying that the pop diva looked "embalmed."
"I don't know why Donatella Versace said she was honored by Gaga's selection, unless, of course, she thought she had to say something nice about the superstar. But a D.O.A. video doesn't help the House of Versace. Be choosier, Ms. Versace," Horyn wrote.
She also gave Gaga's performance at Thierry Mugler's Paris runway show a decidedly lukewarm review, to say the least.
Perhaps Horyn is tired of hearing Gaga's voice, on the radio, in the fashion pages and on television.
This year, she made a point of writing that she'd stopped following Gaga's tweets.
Lady Gaga considers herself a fashionable artist and doesn't like an influential American fashion writer saying she isn't. Gaga 'writes' back in 'V' mag.
If you're gonna call Lady Gaga names expect her to fight, or in this case, write, back. The innovative singer, musician and songwriter is also a (self-appointed?) player in the fashion world. She's been praised and criticized for her approach to fashion and on Sept. 1, 2011, she threw some barbs at one of her most ardent fashion critics.
In her column in 'V' magazine, the 'Born This Way' Gaga retorted to New York Times fashion critic Kathy Horyn's many prose attack on her. As fans of hers may expect, Lady Gaga is not one to hold back when she has the proverbial bee in her proverbial fashionable bonnet.
The 54-year-old Horyn has repeatedly criticized Gaga's fashion choices and when writing on Gaga's Edge of Glory video in June of 2011, she said the former Stefani Germanotta looked "embalmed." In a June of 2010 'On the Runway' blog she went so far as to call Gaga an "ugly duckling with some spook appeal." Fighting words, no? It appears yes.
Lady Gaga Writes Back at Fashion Critic
"Doesn’t the integrity of the critic become compromised when their writings are consistently plagued with negativity? Gaga wrote in 'V' about Horyn. "When the public is no longer surprised or excited by the unpredictability of the writer, but rather has grown to expect the same cynicism from the same cynic?
"It’s so easy to write, “One star, hated it, worst show of the season.” It’s much more challenging to reckon with and analyze a work. It requires research, but maybe no one does their research anymore. So my question, V readers, is this: when does the critique or review become insult and not insight? Injury and not intellect?"
Fashion Wars: Lady Gaga v. Cathy Horyn
It is likely Horyn will not care greatly about Gaga's words. She has said she has stopped following Lady Gaga's tweets and when Lady Gaga's meat dress was embalmed and put on display in the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' in Cleveland, Horyn didn't write on it. Considering Time Magazine called the dress the fashion statement of the year that's a large dis.
Why does Gaga care? Is it simply that she does not like to be criticized? It may be the tenor of the criticisms - the "ugly duckling" remark must hurt - but in the final analysis it seems a mute point. Gaga has again gotten her name in the news with the column and placed herself in the fashion conversation. She obviously wants to be there.
Horyn has neither written nor commented on Gaga's column.
Suite101.com
EDIT: The NY Daily News weighed in as well...
This past June, she trashed Gaga's wearing of vintage Versace in her video "Edge of Glory," saying that the pop diva looked "embalmed."
"I don't know why Donatella Versace said she was honored by Gaga's selection, unless, of course, she thought she had to say something nice about the superstar. But a D.O.A. video doesn't help the House of Versace. Be choosier, Ms. Versace," Horyn wrote.
She also gave Gaga's performance at Thierry Mugler's Paris runway show a decidedly lukewarm review, to say the least.
Perhaps Horyn is tired of hearing Gaga's voice, on the radio, in the fashion pages and on television.
This year, she made a point of writing that she'd stopped following Gaga's tweets.
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If this is old news I must have missed it, but...
Lady Gaga is set to team up with iconic fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier for a TV special on U.S. network CW this September (12Sep11). The two will sit down for an interview to discuss the pop star's love of style, her rise to fame and her provocative image.
Lady Gaga is set to team up with iconic fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier for a TV special on U.S. network CW this September (12Sep11). The two will sit down for an interview to discuss the pop star's love of style, her rise to fame and her provocative image.
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