Lady Gaga: Fashion Idol?
By Audrey Rogers • Apr 21st, 2009 • Category: Style
By Audrey Rogers of BeFrassy.com
She was born in New York. She went to the same posh private school as Paris Hilton. She writes her own lyrics, and most importantly, she designs her own clothes. Meet Lady Gaga: the modern mix of Edie Sedgwick and Cyndi Lauper. She’s the modern Madonna, the newest wild, go-lucky girl, creating a fashion party craze that is taking the globe by glitter storm. Her songs reflect a constant flow of urban thrills; the high life of booze, dancing, and parties. Shaking her platinum blonde locks and shining in sequins, her music videos alone provide a series of decadent sartorial indulgences. Singing about paparazzi, being overly drunk, money, and clothes, her songs spin off into their own “glamophonic” world, a life that drinks itself into a shiny, shimmering “disco heaven.”
Lady Gaga asserts, “Fashion is everything to me” and this vividly comes across in her musical expression. But are we seeing a new age, an urban fashion icon? She is, indisputably, disco at its most contemporary. And most of her clothes are designed and made by the Gaga herself. She tells the Independent, “I designed these custom nude sequined panties with opalescent light blue rhinestones on them…I made this leather nude bra for my ‘Love Game’ video.” From her bubble dress to her extreme shoulder-padded blazers to her leather bikini and boot combos, this musician is showing the fashion clan a truly unique way of dressing. Lady Gaga herself says, “The way the world is…people are hungry for rejoicing and escaping.” This belief is demonstrated in her clothing designs and music, which, when fused together, provide not only the epitome of escapism but also a new disco-mania fashion trend.
And what is an icon without followers? Worldwide, girls are imitating her trademark thunderbolt streak (down the forehead and across one eye), fingerless gloves, big black shades, long light blonde locks, and wacky, three-dimensional structured clothing. BlackBook Magazine recently featured Nicole Richie-dressed Gaga Style. There are even rumors of an upcoming Lady Gaga clothing line. It is looking like the newest artistic craze, one that fuses music and art, creating a fashion fad of nocturnal excess. In response to her style followers, she writes on her blog, “The fashion is spreading!!!!! I’m so happy.” It seems her lyrics ring true: “Fashion put it all on me, don’t you want to see these clothes on me.” Looks like the fashion world is welcoming Gaga in a booming, spandextastic, discofantastic kind of way. And remember, whatever it is you decide to wear, always, always “just dance.”
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Great article - now add her purple teacup to the list!
http://www.hollyscoop.com/lady-gaga/lady-gagas-teacup-mystery-explained_20004.aspx
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May 8th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
OMG i LOVE LADY GAGA
SHE DRESSES SO COOL
iT HER STYLE SO ALL YEW OTHER CELEBRiTYS
BETTER NOT COPY HUR!! (:*
AM i THE FiRST 1 TOO LEAVE A COMMENT!!!
May 31st, 2009 at 9:16 am
Horribly written. I’m sorry but this is just bad. BAD. And I absolutely adore GaGa.
June 15th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
great article and i love audreys blog. frassy is insperational and unique. absoloutly brilliant, read it; http://www.befrassy.com/
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:29 am
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June 24th, 2009 at 4:55 am
i love lady gaga style though has to be said that she is a big copy cat that bubble dress is identical to hussien chalayan desighn althogh do lovve it she copies it all from faumous desighners! x
July 18th, 2009 at 6:49 am
How any one could say lady gaga is ugly? Lady Gaga doesn’t get given the respect she deserves for being such a great person. Seriously i would turn any day for her Lol.
I also am VEry jealous of her clothing choices, if only i could make clothes like that (:
September 16th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I was having lunch in a restaurant , a tourist bus passing by, started taking pictures of me ,calling me lady gaga, I didn’t know who she was, I asked my girlfriend ,she said , some young crazy singer. I went home , started doing some research about Gaga. What I found was amazed by her talent her style everything about her like WOW. She reminds me of me , when I was growing , but more daring and talented , Sh’es truly number one , I am a big fan of hers know,I love you Gaga, you’re doing great , go girl , life is good ,enjoy it. And good luck. Whatever dream you achieve. I know you’re to get even more famous.
February 10th, 2010 at 12:46 pm