Lady Gaga (July 2011 - May 2012)

[Libra Skye18]

T4P...I can't help but be a bit tickled over how so many people are up in arms over Gaga standing up for herself against Cathy Horyn and other critics who choose to phone it in, when it comes to her. I'd love to read Cathy's response but I doubt that she will write out one since she doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Oh and I can't at anyone thinking that Gaga can't take criticism, its like um shes been getting criticized her entire career and seems to be doing just fine.

Yeah The View will definitely be a rerun. It was one of my favorite appearances shes done for the 'Born This Way' era though.

Not sure if the US date had already been announced but here is a trailer of sorts of Gaga by Gaultier:

^ Heaven! When is the Duets album coming out?

September 20th.

 

[Boomer]

^ Thanks LS! I picked up an armful of Tony Bennett CDs at the library- he and Gaga can do an entire double album as far as I am concerned!

 

[Boomer]

This is an outrage!! What is wrong with these people!!?

http://guestofaguest.com/celebritie...ga-patron-saint-of-lower-east-side-dive-bars/

 

[Menace]

This is an outrage!! What is wrong with these people!!?

http://guestofaguest.com/celebritie...ga-patron-saint-of-lower-east-side-dive-bars/

Elitist @$$holes

 

[Boomer]

Lady Gaga to create a fashion line with her sister 'Baby Gaga'!

Oh oh oh . . . now we find this very interesting. Young Natali Germanotta, also known as Baby Gaga, came to our attention last week when we told you that she was already working in fashion – designing costumes for a delightful theatre group, that is. NOW we find out the truth could be far more explosive! That, Gaga Junior in fact, is running up some samples to create a brand new, all singing all dancing line of Gaga wear.

Huh? Pardon us if we’d got the wrong end of the stick, but we thought that Nicola Formichetti’s 2011 version of Mugler, (and very well made it is too) errr, kind of WAS the brand new range of Gaga wear. Silly silly us. Of course, it was making all of Gaga's stage wear and increasingly eccentric costumes to wear out and about as part of the Haus of Gaga that brought Nicola to the prominence necessary to get the top job at Mugler, and it was largely down to Gaga modelling that the brand received so much publicity on its debut show.

According to an exclusive story in this week’s Grazia, the showbiz sisters are in talks to launch their own line, but with this genius hook; it’ll be ‘relatively normal and wearable’ The theme that Gaga has in mind is ‘to remodel the styles of classic icons from the past, for example, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, and Katherine Hepburn’ BUT the glamorous styles will each come with a twist – like the white Marylin dress made up in kinky rubber.
Ooh we definitely need one of those, so sign us up for one in every colour IMMEDIATELY!

Grazia UK

 

[Menace]

Nepotism at its finest.

 

[Captain_Lydia]

Is she really engaged? I read it in a rag mag just today (hence why I don't know if it should be believed). They're claiming she's going to invite some of her fans to her "secret wedding" which sounds like an oxymoron if it's true.

 

[Boomer]

^ I don't think so...she said on Howard Stern a couple of weeks ago that she didn't even have a boyfriend...(Although Luc was there with her, but she says he is just an old friend and she has a hard time trusting people these days, which is sort of understandable...)

 

[Boomer]

This is going to be fun!! B)

http://youtu.be/kjSwxVOV8N8

 

[tarsha]

US Harper's Bazaar October 2011 : Lady Gaga by Inez & Vinoodh

harpersbazaar.com

 

[Boomer]

^ You know, that really takes guts! How many celebs would do a cover and a photo spread in a fashion magazine without makeup!!?

 

[mom4etozavsi4ko]

^yes but that doesn't make her less ugly

 

[fashion debutant]

^yes but that doesn't make her less ugly

 

[BonjourTristesse]

I really don't think she's ugly... Really not!
I think 95% of all people would look like that with super white make up, up close, lighting and those angles. We're so used to photoshopped celebs and models we don't know whats real anymore... Now, I don't want to say your opinion isn't valid. But I'd call "ugly" something else!

 

[mom4etozavsi4ko]

well Charlize theron is beauty without make up, Salma Hyeck too, Keira Knightley... but gaga better stick to her style not to something that simple cuz she is not that impressive to pull it off

 

[BonjourTristesse]

I agree. They're classically beautiful. But I don't know...for some reason I find those pictures really appealing. I also like "weird" kind of beauties. I totally get the concept of "model good looks" but I find GaGa stunning sometimes, Sofia Coppola too, for that matter :-)

 

[Libra Skye18]

^ Thanks LS! I picked up an armful of Tony Bennett CDs at the library- he and Gaga can do an entire double album as far as I am concerned!

No problem. I really am loving what I have heard from their duet.

 

[mom4etozavsi4ko]

not beautiful interesting is the word look I`m not against her I don`t care about her. I like the fact that she broke so many stereotypes and all... but that`s thanks to the fact that she is interesting not the best musician but her videos and her appearances are interesting that`s why she is on the top

 

[Libra Skye18]

not beautiful interesting is the word look I`m not against her I don`t care about her. I like the fact that she broke so many stereotypes and all... but that`s thanks to the fact that she is interesting not the best musician but her videos and her appearances are interesting that`s why she is on the top

You don't care about her yet you have such strong opinions about her, even going so far to call her ugly? Odd. This thread is no doubt welcome to all, be it whether one dislikes Gaga or enjoys what she has done but God knows that if I were to call indifference towards something or someone, they wouldn't have me making such claims about what they have accomplished. After all they wouldn't be on my radar since that would be the true act of indifference.

One can say that her image is her main attraction and that's fine but she has proven time and time again that underneath the wigs and various ensembles that she is one helluva artist. Just Sayin'

 

[Libra Skye18]

Thanks for posting, Tarsha. I love the cover shot. B)


Article:

The Real Lady Gaga

Be it minimal or maximal, the star's iconic look comes naturally.
By Laura Brown

A few months ago, Donatella Versace threw open the doors of the Versace archive in Milan, which contains pieces from the glorious, Medusa'd peak of the Gianni years, for Lady Gaga to plunder at will. "It was me and my friends," Gaga remembers of this particular fashion moment. "We were all running around this warehouse laughing and putting on jackets and shoes. We started crying at one point. I've been dreaming of seeing those outfits my whole life."

It's not a secret that Lady Gaga loves to dress up — in Mugler, in Alexander McQueen, in meat. Lately, "there are some amazing emerging kids from Parsons. I've been wearing a lot of young designers," she explains. She wore a custom-made Hussein Chalayan dress in her recent "Yoü and I" video and chuckles that without McQueen, "I'd be naked." But for this shoot, which will soon be seen in a "fashion film" created in collaboration with photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, a basically barefaced Gaga is very deliberately dressed down.

While this might seem a departure from more theatrical Gaga garb, she doesn't see the slightest difference. "I don't really view it as 'natural,'" she explains. "I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."

But does she ever look in the bathroom mirror in the morning and think, Here we go again? "Sometimes I do. It all really depends on my mood for the day. But I think the perception that I 'put it on' every day is probably not true."

In Gaga's mind, "putting it on" is subject to interpretation. "Don't you think that what's on the cover of a magazine is quite artificial?" she asks. "There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?"

One could suppose that her little monsters might be disappointed, though, if she started wearing jeans and T-shirts. "I try to not focus on what people expect from me," she says. "I think what has been lovely about my relationship with the public is that they expect something unexpected from me."

What is expected of Gaga is her love for fashion and her ability to use it, quite literally, as a performance enhancer. For all her love of couture — her custom Armani dresses, her epic love story with stylist and Mugler designer Nicola Formichetti, all those supermodular Versaces — "there's this one pair of shoes I've had for years, and they cost like $25. I have such an emotional attachment to the shoes that every time I see them, I can hear the fans and feel the bass coming through the bottom of the stage."

Sometimes, of course, shoes are the most substantial part of a Gaga outfit; her body image is as fearless as her fashion. "I'm very free-spirited," she says, like a Swede in a spa. "Even when I was a kid, I used to run around naked with the babysitter, driving her crazy." She attributes her body confidence to dancing, and "I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy. You know, my work sort of feeds me. I keep in shape by working hard."

Even when she's not touring, Gaga works "about 16 to 20 hours a day. And when I'm alone, I write, I imagine, I create things, and I decide how I want to do my future performances. I don't take much time off."

And due to her crushing travel schedule, Gaga spends a lot of time on her own. "When you're alone as much as I am," she observes, "you become accustomed to your solitude and embrace it." Of late, she's been immersing herself in plays. "I love John Patrick Shanley. And I've been reading some books that I loved when I was in theater school, like Bertolt Brecht. Those books really changed my life."

Gaga has also taken up surfing, which she tried for the first time on a princely two-day vacation to Mexico in August. "I fell off a lot in the beginning," she says, "but one of the surfers said to me, 'Now that you can stand up, just look into the future and enjoy the ride.' I thought that was an interesting metaphor about life."

Gaga tweeted a picture of herself to her 13 million followers, writing, "Yeah, that's me. No heels, baby." She was a natural.


Harper's Bazaar