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Given her fashion sense is not for every day wear and obviously is not for everyone. But i give Lady Gaga kudos for being different and it's what makes her stand out from the rest (so yes, attention seeking you can say). But i think it works for her. By the way, I'm not a fan though! =)

I think Lady GaGa's style is very helpful as a reference to do the opposite. We need her :)

We're beginning to feel as though Lady Gaga is taking over the fashion world - all news stories seem to lead to the outlandish pop star. The latest rumour? That she has recruited ELLE's favourite model, Lara Stone, to appear in her next music video.

Apparently Gaga is currently casting for the video of upcoming single 'Alejandro', and Lara is top of her wish list of stars. The model, who is currently the face of Louis Vuitton, has worked with some of the most avant-garde names in fashion, so appearing with Lady Gaga should be a breeze.

And in other Gaga news we hear that rising star Mark Fast declined to lend the singer pieces from his latest collection. According to US site Metro News, the designer was worried that his figure-hugging knitwear would be overshadowed by Gaga's image. He said 'My work is about a lifestyle. Its not fast-food fashion. Its not about trends, its about classic, its about the body, its about beauty. Maybe that gets lost in the picture with certain celebrities.'

Elle UK

has anyone seen any photos of her with no makeup on? I dont think I have ever seen a paparazzi shot of her when she isnt completly done up. I think she is fabulous!

she's awfully ugly,
her agent did an excellent job finding anything sellable in such a pockey image.

Post by corrine
has anyone seen any photos of her with no makeup on? I dont think I have ever seen a paparazzi shot of her when she isnt completly done up. I think she is fabulous!

did you ask for it?

She that of the puffy sleeves and shiny leotard... I have to say I love the posts about her on gofugyourself.com. They're freaking hilarious.

I think some of the peices she wears look grest, but she can tend to go a bit over the top. and some of her excuses for why she wears some things are ridiculous. if you're out there enough to be that unique with your style, why would you bother with reasons and excuses?

So there you go Lady GaGa is 100% manufactured.

As with most things Lady Gaga, this latest controversy is swathed in mystery. Did she really cancel a performance last Thursday night just to go on Oprah the next day? Or was she deathly ill, as she claimed? Or, as her opening act, Jason Derulo, implied on a radio show Tuesday morning, was Gaga so sick that she had to take steroids to make the Oprah appearance? Or, as her publicist said, is there no truth to that?

In other words: Gaga cant just be sick. Nor can she simply postpone a show. Everything with Gaga a native New Yorker who kicked off a four-night, sold-out stint at Radio City Music Hall last night is a spectacle designed to elicit the maximum reaction possible. Its not a technique she pioneered, but its propelled her from an unremarkable-looking Upper West Side teenager with the ungainly name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta to an androgynous, mysterious, global pop icon named Lady Gaga.

She was always, says her old friend Hollie Simmons, going to be No. 1.

In the 15 months since shes become a superstar, Gaga has had five No. 1 singles and sold 8 million records. Shes sold 35 million singles worldwide. Her bizarre appearance face almost always obscured, hair and makeup overdone, archly futuristic clothing that reveals a lot of skin but is never sexy has been reinterpreted by such designers as Givenchys Riccardo Tisci and Jean Paul Gaultier. Fellow pop stars, including Rihanna and Beyoncé, have aped her space-age chic. She has met the Queen.

Like any worthy performance artist, Lady Gaga actively encourages debate and speculation about who she is: Bisexual? A transvestite? A hermaphrodite? Of this planet?

Or could her secret be even darker?

Born and raised in New York City to a wealthy couple named Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta, the young Stefani who claims to be 23, though some believe shes older was a well-adjusted kid, despite her claims of a misfit, misspent youth. She did, however, look out of place even then, not so much an uptown, posh, sophisticated kid à la a Spence-era Gwyneth but more like a refugee from Jersey Shore: big black hair, heavy eye makeup and tight, revealing clothes. That said, she was popular.

Stefani was always part of school plays and musicals, recalls a former high school classmate. She had a core group of friends; she was a good student. She liked boys a lot, but singing was No. 1.

Germanotta was a student at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, the same high school Caroline Kennedy attended. (Germanotta has fueled rumors about her age by speaking of classmate Paris Hilton, who is pushing 30.) She studied with Christina Aguileras vocal coach, then went to NYUs Tisch School. She was She was a very suburban, preppy, friendly, social party girl, says a former dorm-mate, who was friends with the boys in Germanottas then-jam band. There was nothing that would tip you off that she had this Warhol-esque, new art extremism.

Her crazy outfit, recalls another pal, was putting suspenders on her jeans.

A large part of Gagas appeal is, as with her forebears, her myth. Like Madonna, from whom she has borrowed most heavily, Gaga has retained tight control of her narrative, even in a digital age. (The most damning clip one can find is a 2005 appearance on MTVs practical-joke reality show Boiling Points.) Her origin story, too, hews closely to Madonnas: a rebellious Catholic schoolgirl-turned-starving- artist of the Lower East Side, discovered and celebrated for her weirdness.

Sort of, but not quite.

Germanottas goal was always to get a record deal, and her family was largely supportive. After dropping out of NYU, Germanotta befriended Wendy Starland, who just happened to be scouting bands for Rob Fusari, whod produced Whitney Houston and Destinys Child.

Rob said to me, I want you to find a girl under 25 who could be the lead singer of the Strokes, Starland says. I looked high and low. Then she randomly caught Germanotta at the Cutting Room. At the end of the set, Starland grabbed Germanotta and speed-dialed her boss.

Rob was like, Why are you waking me up? And I said, I found the girl! Fusari agreed to a meeting. He was, to put it mildly, underwhelmed.

She was a little overweight, he recalls.

She looked like something out of GoodFellas, like she was ready to make pasta any minute. She had on leggings and some strange cut-up shirt, a hat that looked like it was out of Princes Purple Rain I remember thinking, That could be her. But I hope its not.

Then Germanotta sang for him. Im telling you, it was, like, 10 seconds in and Im texting my management. Im like, I need a contract immediately.

Heres where the myths and the realities begin to meld.

Germanotta was, in some ways, the outsider she claimed to be. In the music industry and on the Lower East Side scene where cool, like pornography, is hard to define but easy to recognize Germanotta was not cool. The Gaga persona, however, was gestating. It would be a difficult birth.

I wanted to bring [Germanotta] into my world, says Lady Starlight, who met her while working as a go-go dancer at the LES bar St. Jeromes in 2007. Starlights friends, too, were underwhelmed. You know how it is in those kinds of artsy circles, says Starlight. People are a little snooty.

Starlight gave Germanotta something of a tutorial in the downtown art scene, teaching her burlesque, and bringing her to the underground dance party Frock N Roll in Long Island City. By this point, Starlight says, the Gaga look was germinating: She was wearing a version of it, Starlight recalls. Definitely spandex, for sure, some kind of unitard, but casual. She still looked abrupt and out of place.

The color schemes would be, like, really tight leopard-print pants with red pumps 1 foot tall, says Fusari. Id say, Stef, you gotta walk a little ahead of me, because people might think Im with a transsexual prostitute.

Men are a weird thing with Stef, says her friend Simmons. She likes really smart guys. Ive never seen her not date a guy whos in a tailored suit and has achieved something substantial. Shes not interested in wasters.

As social as she was, Germanotta remained singularly focused on her burgeoning career. As far back as her now-famous NYU talent show, Germanotta looked and sounded more like Fiona Apple or Norah Jones than the Euro-pop, S&M dance master she is now. She was forever behind a piano or a keyboard, partially obscured by her long, black hair, singing earnest love songs with titles like Captivated and Electric Kiss. Fusari thought Germanottas whole vision was fatally off.

I had read an article about women in rock, he says, and how it was getting very difficult for women to break through in the rock genre, how Nelly Furtado had moved into more of a dance thing. He told Germanotta that they werent going in the right direction. It wasnt something kids could relate to.

They tried something else: dancier, poppier, Euro-inflected, accessible.

That was definitely a light bulb [moment], says Fusari. But we still didnt have a name yet.

Lady Gaga, according to Lady Gaga, was a nickname given by her LES compatriots (as she told Oprah), something Fusari mistakenly called her once in a text message (as she told Rolling Stone), an homage to Queens song Radio Gaga (general lore). Actually, it was the result of a marketing meeting.

That was the name we decided on before we started shopping to the record labels, says a former collaborator, who asked not to be named. Her glam-android aesthetic is largely the work of a team she calls The Haus of Gaga, but she also told an astonished Oprah that her look is mainly auto-generated: This inspiration comes naturally, Gaga said.

She was, and is, incredibly focused and motivated about succeeding, says Starlight.

Her [new] label, Interscope, had me shoot her first performance as Lady Gaga for music execs, says photographer Aliya Naumoff. After the show, Naumoff whod shot Gaga the day before approached her to say hi and offer congratulations. She blew me off, didnt care, says Naumoff, laughing. She just didnt give a f---. I was like, Shes in it to win it.

A close friend from this era who, like Starlight, was left behind, is less forgiving: Shes a really great manipulator, she says. Its a long process to become a rock star, and shes willing to crush anyone in her path to do it. She has zero ethics whatsoever. None.

She says Gaga cheated her out of monies owed, giving her a Chanel 2.55 bag instead. We used to speak every day, she says. Its a gorgeous bag.

As she sat with Oprah less than one week ago, men in disco-ball regalia and middle-aged housewives alike misted up as Gaga explained her raison detre.

Her small yet entire oeuvre, explained the girl who lived to be famous, was a commentary on this horrific media world that we live in. Her celebrity, her art, is not about her, she said. She is a vessel, an artist who exists only to let everyone else know that its OK to be weird, a freak, a misfit, that she has never fit in and never will.

So the message of Gaga, said Oprah, is, Be who you are. Be yourself, Gaga agreed. Whoever, in fact, that may actually be.

I personally think she dress up that way to ENTERTAIN us all.
I dont see a really deeper point behind what she is doing except that she is trying to come out in her personal way.
Just for that I give kudos to her!
I dont mind to get feedbacks of your thoughts.
Peace Fashion Lovers