Gaga reached the holy grail of all fashion followers as the recipient of the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s (CFDA) coveted Fashion Icon award last night. An honor bestowed on models Iman and Kate Moss, and actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman was passed on to our Lady of pop.
Announced in March, sometime just after her Vogue cover and her debut on the runways of Paris, the award legitimizes as revolutionary the outfits some critics have derided as attention-grabbing gimmicks. Yes we are googly eyed over GaGas garments!
The singer, well known for her outrageous outfits, was given the prize for "being a fashion revolutionary", the CFDA said. True to form- Lady GaGa- famous for her dramatic fashion choices, didn't disappoint as she arrived at the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Fashion Awards at Lincoln Centre’s Alice Tully Hall. The flamboyant 'Bad Romance' singer caused a stir with a huge black Nicola Formichetti dress and spectacular platform shoes.
Now you’d think it’d be an easy task to make a costume change at an awards show for fashion designers. But Lady Gaga, who regularly shows up on the red carpet in one outfit and accepts her trophies in another, the pop star and style risk-taker accepted her award decked out in a turquoise wig and her unravelling dress which revealed a leather and mesh corset get-up by Thierry Mugler, a label now helmed by her friend and stylist Nicola Formichetti.
Mother Monster- GaGa accepted the award and told her crowd:
"I just wanted to tell you how much this award means to young American people, she said. My fans, some of them don't know who they are and they have so much trouble. They come to the Monster Ball to find who they are and they wake up in the morning and it's that leather jacket that makes them feel like they can be anyone. Or its that YSL blazer that they saw in the window that makes them feel like they could be president one day. Fashion means so much to them. Its really hard to talk about I always felt like I had made it before I had made it because of all of you, because it was all of you that made me feel like I was a star."
But how did the singer whose first widespread fashion statement involved no fashion at all ascend to the highest rungs of the fashion ladder? One bubble dress, burning bra and sheer bodysuit at a time. Lets take a look at the hall of fame of the GaGa get-up.
Lovely-Bubbly?
Lady gaga adopted this number to match her bubbly personality- a dress made of bubbles. I wonder what GaGas inspiration for this washing-up-liquid dress was, maybe her love for pop?
Take a butchers at this...
The Cherry on the Cake?
Caught on tape.
Lady GaGa has outdone herself yet again, wearing only police tape in a new risque photo from her upcoming music video 'Telephone.' GaGa poses in verylittle amping up her sex appeal.
Egg-selent outfit.
Lady Gaga, being carried in an egg-shaped vessel, arrives at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards Los Angeles. The 'born this way star' evolved from her egg shell in a nude mesh body.
It seems what would be deemed as fashion victim-ism in the real world is an iconic symbol in celebdom.
-ZB
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