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Showing posts with label VMagazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VMagazine. Show all posts
Jan 15, 2012
Jan 10, 2012
Lady Gaga’s Latest V Column Is Not by Lady Gaga
This image is a little too small for you to be able to read the text, but trust us, the pictures are more interesting. However, should you be curious, here’s what the three designers (or, well, maybe their publicists) have to say about Gaga:
Giorgio Armani:
It is always stimulating to work with Lady Gaga because it allows my imagination to roam freely in order to create genuinely theatrical stage costumes, as was the case on this occasion. Lady Gaga is an artist with a huge personality and amazing stage presence. I was attracted by her genuine interest in fashion and design, which she projects with a conviction that knows no limits — and which she definitely considers a vital ingredient of her career.
Paco Rabanne’s Manish Arora:
Daring. Far beyond fashion and beauty, Gaga’s style is unpredictable, iconoclastic yet iconic and out of time. She is now and tomorrow, between fantasy and reality … She is a statement of re-creating, a piece of art.
Karl Lagerfeld:
Gaga gives the world her music and her talent, but the thing I like most is that she fights against boredom and banality. She also puts forth an ever changing, inspiring, and strong image — an image beyond fashion. She is an extreme concentrate of “zeitgeist,” freeing us from the heavy boredom of publicly displayed political correctness by being herself more than politically correct. Something in today’s world would be missed if there would be no Lady Gaga because Gaga is a Lady.
Jan 6, 2012
Jan 5, 2012
Gaga dominates the 2011 Pop Crush Music Awards
In addition to winning Song of the Year for ‘The Edge of Glory,’ Album of the Year for ‘Born This Way,’ and Video of the Year for the title track on ‘Born This Way,’ Gaga also won awards in a plethora of other categories. She was voted 2011′s Best Live Performer (beating out names like Chris Brown and Beyonce), and subsequently had her name tied to the Biggest Headline of 2011 for her performance as Jo Calderone at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.
The ‘Best Magazine Cover’ was won with her appearance on the front of the V Magazine earlier last year with the multiple heads. Along with the multiple heads, Gaga also had a multiple number of ideas and visits to The White House where she kept on promoting the equal rights act she was aiming for to combact bullying and for acceptance in who people are. Her courageous personality and campaignes is what lead Gaga to win the Best Humanitarian of 2011.
A massive well done to all of you that voted for our Mother Monster in the awards, and congratualtions to Lady Gaga who has lead a very successful year into 2012.
Oct 13, 2011
Memorandum no. 4 Of Gaga article for "V Magazine"
Read the article in text below:
V MAGAZINE GAGA memorandum No. 4
Date: NOVEMBER 2011
Re: REMODELING THE MODEL
From: M†SS.GAGA
To: STEPHEN GAN
To: STEPHEN GAN
Copy to: Ms. Vreeland
Haus of Gaga
Nicola Formichetti
V Collective
Little Monsters
The world
Art historians
Intellectuals
Jo Calderone
Haus of Gaga
Nicola Formichetti
V Collective
Little Monsters
The world
Art historians
Intellectuals
Jo Calderone
My study of gender manipulation, though not a new endeavor in the fields of art and fashion, has been both revealing and terrifying — perhaps my most emotionally challenging performance to date. Beginning as an invention of my mind, Jo Calderone was created with Nick Knight as a mischievous experiment. After working together tirelessly and passionately for years, eating bovine hearts, throwing up on ourselves, giving birth to an alien nation and an AK-47, Nick and I began to wonder: how much exactly can we get away with? Given the nature of this V Magazine issue, an exploration of “the model,” I felt it appropriate to investigate, in diary form, how the past few months of my work have been a deliberate attack on the “idea” of the “modern model,” or, in my case, the “modern pop singer.” How can we remodel the model? In a culture that attempts to quantify beauty with a visual paradigm and almost mathematical standard, how can we fuck with the malleable minds of onlookers and shift the world’s perspective on what’s beautiful? I asked myself this question. And the answer? Drag.
Nick and I photographed Jo, omitted his biological sex, and shopped the photographs around to men’s fashion magazines. The cover of Vogue Hommes Japan, a major Japanese men’s publication, was a coup to say the least, exciting mostly because we had convinced the editors that Jo Calderone was a male model and had sold his look as the next big thing. Nick Knight, a photographer with intuition that borders on godly, wondered immediately if they would be able to feel my spirit in the photograph. He wondered, knowing good and well his photographs were marvelous and utterly masculine, if there was still no way to mask my intensity as a performer. What an interesting venture it was, because, in truth, really brilliant models have the chameleonic ability to transform into new creatures all the time. So why should I be any different? Was our experimentation devious? Or is it nobody’s business whether or not Jo has a cock in his pants? It was a few weeks later, after the cover was printed, that Nick said to me, sweetly, “Gaga, I believe Jo has to sing.”
I wrestled with this idea. Would it be convincing? What was the purpose of the piece? And if I were to do it, what would its significance be in relation to my work as Lady Gaga? Yes, this is me, but in the fantasy of performance I imagined (or hoped) the world would weigh both individuals against one another as real people, not as one person playing two. Lady Gaga versus Jo Calderone, not Lady Gaga “as.” That would be the intention of the process, to co-exist with an alternate version of myself — in the same universe. So I reasoned, how could remodeling my current image ignite a statement or revelation about me as an artist? What is the new model of the performer and how can I push the boundaries? The answer was that Jo would not just make a statement about me as performer, but would reveal things about me as a woman. I decided then that there was only one way to execute this piece: Jo and Gaga had to argue.
As I began to reckon with Jo, I found it important to excavate what he didn’t like about me, or rather, what I struggle with liking about myself. Concurrently, I felt it necessary to imagine what the public expects of me during a performance of this magnitude — the opening of the VMAs — and how I might destroy this expectation in a variety of ways. On a stage, the laws of fantasy are meant to be broken, but I have always found it difficult to bring my real pussy out there with me. (Or do I bring it out there and just don’t know it?) I have always feared that the reality of love, if brought into the spotlight, has the potential to destroy creativity. Needless to say, the line between fantasy and reality is blurred in my life, as this psychobabble may indicate, so I drew upon my personal experiences to initiate a deeper parallel. Do my lovers feel like an extension of my audience? Because I refuse to draw a distinction between what’s real and what is artifice, do they feel a part of the show? How can Jo become more relatable and lovable than I am?
During my performance and the three days I spent as him, I felt permission through him to confess things about myself as a woman, things I would normally keep hidden. In a way, it seemed that he could get away with a lot more than I can. He talked about his feelings, wore Brooks Brothers, smoked Marlboro Lights, drank beer on stage, and talked about what I refuse to discuss publicly: my relationships. It was by remodeling myself into something completely foreign, and in some ways crafting the anti-pop performance, that the complexities of “the model” began to unfold. For someone known as much for her image as for her music — and this has become my model — the presence of Jo in no way eradicated my spirit from the stage. I was still ever-present, and, in fact, more myself than ever. Jo had a clean slate. Jo had no past or future to answer to. Jo existed only in that moment, as I chose for him to.
By remodeling the “model artist,” “model citizen,” or “supermodel,” we can liberate the present. The transformation detaches the model from any universal paradigm and allows him or her to reinvent perspective in a pure, unattached moment. Within the different archetypes of our psychology, which part of ourselves can tackle an obstacle with more honesty or strength? Is it a farce to transform? Or is it an injustice to “the model” to treat him or her as a prototype? How will you remodel yourself and discover which model is best for today? Use every ounce of potential you have, raise revolution against what people expect of you, and tell the world this is not a rehearsal. This is the real me. And listen up, ‘cause it could be the most honest incarnation yet.
Sep 1, 2011
V Magazine: From the desk of Lady GaGa memorandum no. 3
Lady Gaga has submitted her third journalistic piece to V Magazine, titled “Extreme Critic Fundamentalism”. In the article, she discusses fashion critics and how they write their journalistic pieces.
To check it out, make sure to:V Magazine
To check it out, make sure to:V Magazine
Jul 8, 2011
Jun 11, 2011
Video tribute to Gaga for V Magazine
Fashion Awards.
CONGRATULATIONS, LADY GAGA! from V Magazine on Vimeo.
May 31, 2011
Column of Gaga, in V Magazine in Spain
Gaga is a contributor to the magazine, V Magazine, if you want reading the column, written by her, in Spanish.
Here
May 19, 2011
May 18, 2011
May 13, 2011
May 11, 2011
Gaga appear on the cover, V Magazine in Asia
Gaga also appears on the cover, V Magazine in its Asian edition. The magazine has two different covers.
Nicola Formichetti stylist is in charge of this meeting.
Nicola Formichetti stylist is in charge of this meeting.
