Meat dress - for the last time

Oh my... turns out Franc Fernandez - the man who made the insane Gaga meat dress (which has lips wagging) is not the only one using meat as a material, in fact, Jena Sterbak has been on the scene for years - long before him!

She used meat to make couches, mankini's, jackets, object d'art and dresses... (and she's responsible for the Gaga Japanese Vogue cover where the insane Gaga - would that be called tautology? - posed in a meat bikini).

mmm... Fashion? statement? or chuck-inducing?

Lady Gaga does a meaty number, again...

To be honest, I am getting tired of this woman's antics. She started off by being edgy, following steps set out by style icon, Daphne Guiness, and proved to be able to fill her boots and go beyond that and now she's turned into a hot mess that touches on topics that are, perhaps, far beyond her intentions. It's all getting a little dull! How about sticking to the artistry which you introduced yourself with?

She wore DeGorge couture pieces by the likes of Lee McQueen and Armani (Prive, that is) and made fashionistas (and bloggers alike) to take notice of her... we couldn't wait to see what she'd wear at any event until this came along...

I get it, take a stab at animal rights activists AND, ironically, get some kind of reaction from the Fur-loving/wearing/using people. I get that, I think. It is one outfit that actually taps into the human psyche and allows you to ask when too much is TOO MUCH...

This outfit is no different from her using fur, in fact it's probably better given that the methods of killing animals for meat are much more humane than those of fur (I mean, this could be halaal meat for all we know) and yet there's an uproar that questions her morality - questioned by some fur-wearing, leather stiletto-trotting hypocrite who'd rather see an animal inflated with gases and force-fed before going for the chop to preserve the fur's integrity than to see Gaga wearing a smelly (I can only imagine), meaty number. Doesn't this make you question the moral fibre of our society?

I hate the outfit, do not get me wrong - it is an eye-sore (but so are many people's outfits), tried picturing it in Hessein which would've probably suited this dress more than all the other traditional materials and no, can't see beauty - but I have no problem with it (as with fur - do not gun me on that one)... if she chooses to be ridiculed to make a strong - and hopefully inspire change (be it with the "all for furs" or "all against fur")- statement, then props to her...

but eeuw! a little salt and pepper and a run through a furnace would make this outfit a little more, umm... palatable.

pic source: AP/Reuters via Michael Deacon (Telegraph's TV features editor)

It's in HER knickers

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Givenchy... meet Kluk CGDT... or have you met?

While trying to find what transpiredd at the Paris fashion shows, I came across a post BryanBoy did about the installation that Givenchy had at hotel d'Evreux.

Givenchy, Paris July 2010

I was amazed until the left - or was it the right? - side of my brain registered that this is a de ja vu! Not identical to a tee, obviously (given one is prete-porter and the other is haute couture), but these two collections are soooo similar!

Kluk CGDT - Paris March 2010

or am I grasping at nothing?

and this outfit by the Gaga one - did it also get a white splash, lighter material and beaded?

Look - before gunning for my head - I am just pointing out the similarities here... take time to go through each collection - you'll be surprised! But each has it's own, defining element and edginess but overall aesthetics... very similar!

okay - maybe I am going nutters -

pics: www.bryanboy.com , www.ifashion.co.za , www.thestylebitches.com

Gaga gone Gaga at a Gala

OKAY, not quite a gala event!

This is the outfit Lady Gaga decided she'd wear to her sister's graduation - huh?! Graduation? Although I am still getting a lot of Daphne out of this outfit (ya'll know my Gaga-drama) - have to give it to the nutty GAGA, this is something else - naturally, I love it! Including the black-veil rice-picker's hat. DEGORGE!!!!

are those Nina Ricci booties I see?

So... would she crack an invite to your wedding (pretend SHE has YOU on speed-dial and remove the celeb-factor)? or funeral? or any event where you're suppose to be centre stage? HA! she just scored two brownie points for this one!

This is what the girls at "the style bitches" had to say:

Imagine for a minute; Gaga is your sister. You’ve seen her in her favourite giraffe pajamas and heard her fart. And she swans up to your graduation looking like a demented Bee-keeper. Wouldn’t you just be like, “Here Stephenie! This isn’t Madison Square Bleedin’ Gardens! Gerrup ouh of it, will ye?

I know, hilarity at it's finest!