Happy Birthday Lady Gaga 🎉🍰🍾🥂
She was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta but is known professionally as Lady Gaga. She is known for her image reinventions and musical versatility.
Having sold 124 million records as of 2014, Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the only female artist to achieve four singles that sold at least 10 million copies globally. Her accolades include 12 Grammy Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, 16 Guinness World Records, awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and recognition as Billboard's Artist of the Year (2010) and Woman of the Year (2015). She has also been included in several Forbes' power rankings and ranked fourth on VH1's Greatest Women in Music (2012). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 and 2019 and placed her on their All-Time 100 Fashion Icons list.
Her philanthropy and activism focus on mental health awareness and LGBT rights; in 2012, she founded the Born This Way Foundation, a non-profit organization aiming to empower youth, improve mental health, and prevent bullying. Gaga's business ventures include Haus Laboratories, a vegan cosmetics brand that launched in 2019.
Lady Gaga has stated many times how much she admired Freddie Mercury and Queen. Her performance style on stage hints at inspiration from Freddie Mercury. We all know Freddie hammered those ebonies and ivories and so does Gaga. She received piano lessons as a young girl but like Freddie, she plays by ear.
Freddie exemplified showmanship, and Lady Gaga does, too. Mercury theatrically danced and flourished by engaging with his audience. Gaga can be more stoic and picturesque, and her audiences love to sing along. They both make you feel as if you’re in the audience of a historical theater.
Freddie wore leotards and bright colors — disregarding conventional boundaries of gender and sexuality. Lady Gaga does much the same, but perhaps with a more haute couture flair.
When it comes to on-stage costumes, Lady Gaga never disappoints.
Lady Gaga, who wore her own take on the sequined jumpsuit on more than one occasion, is among those influenced by Queen, a band she said she “worshipped”; she followed Mercury’s fashion trends closely. She once said she “hoped Freddie Mercury would have thought I was great.”
On her stage name, Stefani said:
“I decided that I'd been playing under my real name for so long I wanted a new way to reinvent myself. So I said,'What about Lady Gaga?' because Gaga is sort of crazy and Lady has such connotations."
“I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit with Radio Ga Ga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique, one of the biggest personalities in pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short, a genius!”
"I’ve always been Gaga ... I suppressed all those eccentricities about myself so I could fit in. Once I was free, I was able to be myself.”
While it's possible that she might revert to her real name down the road, for now, it's definitely Gaga.
You took your name from the Queen song “Radio Ga Ga. “What is your all-time favorite Freddie Mercury performance? (Far Out Mag)
“When he’s in the king’s outfit, with the scepter. Equating oneself with royalty is such a female thing to do. We dress up as princesses and queens and we wear crowns, but Freddie created this image of himself as rock royalty. That performance screams, “Watch me! I’m a legend!”
Roger Taylor even praised Gaga in an interview in 2019
“Lady Gaga is fantastic. I think there are lots of similarities between her and Freddie. She is an extraordinary woman. She does have a great voice, very musical. She is a great musician.”
Gaga collaborated with Brian May (who had electric-guitar duties) on her songs’ ‘Born This Way’ and ‘You & I,’ which just so happens to sample ‘We Will Rock You.’
She admitted to "Falling to the floor crying and laughing" when she found out that May agreed to the collaboration. A dream come true.
“I had a blast working with Lady Gaga, she’s very creative. She’s not just a singer, she writes her own material. She’s fantastic and very inspiring. She’s a very human person underneath all those layers. I love her, she’s great. The persona she’s built up certainly seems to be working.” ~ Brian May
Wishing you all the best Lady Gaga! 🎉🥂
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—-Lagoona (Monsters Ball)
——Lagoona is definitely always serving some type of 80s prom moment.
———The dress is not for everyone but I think if you take a look a past dolls from lagoona and she’s sporty but has a love for vintage. So the dress reminds me of multiple designers @betseyjohnson Spring 2012 Rtw| @betseyjohnson Fall 2011 Rtw| @betseyjohnson Spring 2010 rtw| Javier Haute Couture 1982! | @alexandermcqueen Spring 2010 rtw. From the ruffles and colors. The trims and shape fits perfect for lagoona.
———The shoes have a @miumiu Spring 2017 rtw , these are monster high shoes perfectly.
—————The tentacle necklace reminds me of @preenbythorntonbregazzi (London fall 2020)
———————Last but not least, the giant Ariel flower in her hair reminds me of the butterfly in the @jeanpaulgaultier spring couture 2014.
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The Everlasting Genius of Karl Lagerfeld: American Vogue Magazine April 2023
The Everlasting Genius of Karl Lagerfeld: Amanda Harlech Remembers. American Vogue Magazine May 2023.
WRITTEN BY AMANDA HARLECH PHOTOGRAPHED BY RAFAEL PAVAROTTI STYLED BY AMANDA HARLECH
Sora Choi in Chanel haute couture dress from spring 2005.
Anok Yai wears this richly embroidered organza dress from Chanel haute couture, fall 2006
Sora Choi in a striking number from Chanel Métiers d’Art, 2002.
Anok Yai stuns in a brise dress from Chloé’s fall 1983.
Anok Yai wears mohair Fendi haute fourrure cape from spring 2016.
Anok Yai in this silk muslin and pink organza dress with a cape of geometric mikado blooms, both from Chanel haute couture, spring 2010.
Sora Choi in organza and gazar haute couture dress for Chanel spring 2013.
Sora Choi in Fendi spring 2014, Anok Yai in this haute couture look from Chanel, fall 1991 and
Models Anok Yai and Sora Choi, Photographer Rafael Pavarotti, Fashion Editor/Stylist Amanda Harlech and Peter Aluuan, Hair Stylist Eugene Souleiman, Makeup Artist Ana Takahashi, Set Designer Ibby Njoya, Casting Rosie Vogel, Writer Amanda Harlech, Production PRODn Art and Commence.
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Skeleton Corset for Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Fall Winter 2010 Model Dita Von Teese.
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