PHOTOS: Lady Gaga Defends Her Fashion Expertise In V Magazine
Why Lady Gaga has ever felt the need to defend her role and station as a fashion savant, we have never understood. But that’s exactly what she did in her first column for V Magazine. In the 1,400-word memo (on which you’re cc’d, under the name “The World”), Gaga explains that anyone who loves fashion has to love its history — and anyone who’s accused her of stealing from that history doesn’t understand that “The past undergoes mitosis, becoming the originality of the future.” Is your mind blown yet?
Gaga credits her penchant for appropriating ideas from artists to, well, the practice of artists appropriating ideas from artists. Take, for example, Yves Saint Laurent‘s Mondrian dress or Picasso’s famous proclamation that “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” Both of those bits of art history are referenced in the column, and Gaga doesn’t stop there.
Just like sometimes Picasso was Matisse’s Mondrian, and vice versa. Bowie is often my Mondrian, as are Michael Jackson, Prince, Lita Ford, and Madonna. Mugler is my silhouette’s Mondrian, Cindy Crawford is my sexuality’s, Kermit is my whimsy’s, and, in my “Born This Way” video, two of my Mondrians were Francis Bacon and Salvador Dalg.
While you ponder who your own personal Mondrians might be, take a look at Gaga’s spread in the magazine below, complete with sparkly makeup inspired by (or should we say “stolen from”?) geishas. It is teased on the cover with the title “Memoirs of a Gaga,” and it is awesome.
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http://profiles.google.com/farhanahmed.cdz Farhan Ahmed
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