When I’m writing music, I’m thinking about the clothes I want to wear on stage. It’s all about everything altogether - performance art, pop performance art, fashion. I want the imagery to be so strong that fans will want to eat and taste and lick every part of us.
Lady Gaga
With the May 2011 release of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way album the
LADY GAGA STYLE BIBLE will be the first new title published to coincide with her world tour and year-long media blitz and is the only comprehensive title dedicated to all aspects of her uncompromising, spellbinding and extraordinary visual artistry.
The book is a vibrant photographic fantasy storybook: it is part fashion show pictorial, part retrospective homage - a complete guide to Monster Fashion, literally categorized from A to Z. Style subjects include
Attention to Detail,
The Retro Nod,
Hair and Hats and
Meat and Greet, an expansive look at her eye-popping Franc Fernandez designer creation made from raw beef and worn at the 2010 VMA Awards.
Stunning photographs superbly document her unrivaled artistic craft - a perfect modern amalgamation of glam rock inspirations like David Bowie and Freddie Mercury and fashion influences Donatella Versace and Alexander McQueen. The images in this collection vividly capture Lady Gaga’s complex persona: undoubtedly riveting, provocative, and disturbing, they show a beauty that comes from power and total confi dence that draws the audience in and an ugliness and hardness that perplexes and fends off foes. Taken together they also provide a running commentary on the intersection of culture, sexuality, music, technology, and performance art.
This visual arts photographic collection is eminently illustrative of why Lady Gaga has become a superstar, icon and hero to millions of fans worldwide.
LADY GAGA STYLE BIBLE is an exceptional publication timed perfectly to capture a star at the ascendency of her career and at the forefront of an artistic revolution.
