Yoko Ono: Andy Warhol Told Me To Dress Like Lady Gaga

by Justin Fenner | 4:12 pm, November 3rd, 2010

We established long ago that Lady Gaga‘s look is more postmodern than it is original. But because she’s so passionate about fashion, we never really complain about it and just love her clothes for what they are: works of are that you can dance in. Well, except for the meat dress.

So when we hear things like Yoko Ono‘s claim that Andy Warhol once advised her to dress in the style of Lady Gaga (which, we will remind you, did not exist when Warhol was alive … or did it?) we take it with a grain of salt.

Ono told Page Six that Warhol told her that she was dressing a little too plainly and needed to show a flourish here or there. And by here or there, we mean on top of her head.

Gesturing as if wearing a wild headdress, Ono recalled, “He was actually predicting something like Lady Gaga, you know, the costumes and all that. He said, ‘You should do that,’ but I said, ‘Well I’m an activist and I’m not going to do that.’ I was in a different mood then.”

Ono, who performed with Gaga a few weeks ago, says she thinks everything the younger icon wears is “beautiful,” but that she probably wouldn’t want to get to close to the meat dress. Did Warhol really see a phenomenon like Lady Gaga coming? Maybe he did. But wearing an outlandish headdress doesn’t really approximate what the singer has meant to present-day culture.

[Via Page Six]