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Hermes

VMA fashion. Where's the beef?

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

If someone else had showed up in head-to-toe meat, I'd call it a statement of sorts. However, since it was Lady Gaga, and she's known for her costumey get-ups, I'm thinking that's exactly what it was to her; a costume.

To the cow this is no different than leather, but I'm sure to the people who "dressed" her and to those who had to stand near her it was much different. A leather coat doesn't need to be refrigerated to keep from stinking!

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Came back to add Katy Perry does look like Cher on Ice, but I am kinda liking the hair.

Hermes

greendiamond wrote:

To the cow this is no different than leather, but I'm sure to the people who "dressed" her and to those who had to stand near her it was much different. A leather coat doesn't need to be refrigerated to keep from stinking!

good point. can you imagine how slimy that must have been against her skin? I want to be part of her stylist team round table. I wonder how those conversations go...

"We need to be really out of the box. Like, what would you never make a dress of? Feces? No, too smelly. Grass clippings? Already been done. Beef? Hey! I think you're on to something there..."

Kelly · Hermes

I agree...I think this was less about a statement and more about just getting attention.

Also, off topic but a few years ago on ANTM they had the models posing with meat and I thought "that would never happen in the real modeling world" but since then I've seen at least a few magazine shots with models posing with raw meat.

carmenb513 · Coach

I love gaga but wtf gives .loved the mcqueen shoes though!

Suasoria · Chanel

I don't think it's got anything to do with food, personally. Her raison d'etre is to shock people. If anything I'd consider LG's "statement" to be a comment on celebrity, on being regarded as a piece of meat.

She just did this same thing for Japanese Vogue

But the use of meat/body parts as "art" is something of a tradition. Here's a photo from a French men's magazine that I find far more, uh, intense

And it also calls to mind one of PETA's "street theater"-style actions in which people pose as meat

Earlier this summer the artist Jonathan Horowitz did an installation in a former meat processing plant in NYC. He actually used the smell of the place as part of the show, which was called "Go Vegan."

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Hermes

Suasoria wrote:

If anything I'd consider LG's "statement" to be a comment on celebrity, on being regarded as a piece of meat.

I thought this as well.

interesting imagry you shared, Su. I worked in a meat packing plant for a short period of time after high school. I know that smell disbelief

Boots · Gucci

greendiamond wrote:

Came back to add Katy Perry does look like Cher on Ice, but I am kinda liking the hair.

LOL! I think you're on to something there, GD.

As for Lady Gaga, at some point you have to really start grasping at straws to make your image still "shocking." Unfortunately, it's not really all that in your face, especially compared to the images that Su posted. That french magazine one really disturbs me. Which I would assume is the point of it.

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

Boots wrote:

As for Lady Gaga, at some point you have to really start grasping at straws to make your image still "shocking."

At this point, the most 'shocking' thing Lady Gaga could do is leave the house in a pair of jeans and a tee shirt like the rest of us!

Suasoria · Chanel

greendiamond wrote:

A leather coat doesn't need to be refrigerated to keep from stinking!

Only because it's been "pre-embalmed." Skin is supposed to decompose, so the amount of chemicals involved in tanning leather is astonishing. Remember that movie "A Civil Action?" Some companies are trying to be better environmental stewards, and occasionally you hear about "eco-friendly leather," buy by and large the industry is a big polluter.

Apparently Ellen offered LG a lettuce bikini on her show. Here is the comment:

"Well, it is certainly no disrespect to anyone that is vegan or vegetarian. As you know, I am the most judgment-free human being on the earth," said Gaga. "However, it has many interpretations but for me this evening. If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones. And, I am not a piece of meat."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/09/lady-gaga-explains-her-vma-raw-meat-dress/1

Doesn't she have trainers to teach her how to answer a question like this?

Kelly · Hermes

I think she does that on purpose - just say something vague and incoherent so people can take from it what they want. Sort of like her outfits