FASHION CREDITS: LADY GAGA BY GREG SWALES FOR ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2025
Lady Gaga graces Rolling Stone Magazine — her fourth cover story with the publication — photographed by Greg Swales! In the feature, Gaga opens up about Mayhem, her creative process, her partner Michael, and the delicate balance between chaos and calm on and off set.
Styling by HARDSTYLE with assistance Alicia Rodriguez Apacio, Karen Gonzales and Charles Beugniot. Incredible hair sculptures (more about them after the jump!) by Frederic Aspiras, glam by Sarah Tanno-Stewart and nails by Miho Okawara.
For the first look, Gaga wears a custom corseted black velvet hourglass tudor jacket by Samuel Lewis x Seth Pratt, featuring puffed shoulders, corset-style lacing along the sleeves, and a sharply structured high neck. It’s a piece that merges romantic Gothic tailoring with futuristic restraint — the kind of silhouette that could only exist in Gaga’s universe.
The black Striggings stay-up over-the-knee tights are FALKE.
LG doubled down on surreal glamour with a headpiece only she could command: the sculptural piano hat from Philip Treacy’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection.
The piece — a cascade of ivory and black keys that spirals like a living instrument — sits somewhere between wearable architecture and performance art. It references Gaga’s deepest artistic language: the piano as both weapon and altar.
We also got some rings by two emerging jewerly designers.
Freya Douglas Ferguson, who Gaga has worn before, created the Scratch ring using recycled sterling silver (€317,95).
The Goblin ring in silver is signed by Georgia Kemball, a first-timer in Gaga‘s closet!
She completed the look with these vintage Vivienne Westwood Fall/Winter 1993 "Anglomania" collection Super Elevated Ghillie platform ankle boots in black crocodile from Aralda Vintage.
Her show-stopping black satin and guipure lace-trimmed balloon ballgown with sash detail was one of the final numbers from Anthony Vaccarello‘s Fall/Winter 2025 collection for Saint Laurent.
She's also rocking the Pre-Fall 2025 grained leather oversized bomber jacket with snap button closure and inner layered zip layer.
Our girl finished her look with the towering Enfants Riches Déprimés Fall/Winter 2024 wooden platform Mary Jane pumps.
Next up, this bespoke Charles de Vilmorin feathered shredded taffeta shrug wrapped around her body. I was told by LG's team that this piece was originally made for the 'Abracadabra' music video and is based on the French designer‘s Fall/Winter 2024 collection!
And we thought it couldn‘t get any better.
Gaga poses in yet another vibrant Saint Laurent Fall/Winter 2025 confection.
This cherry-red semi-sheer guipure lace dress with turtleneck, broad shoulders and long sleeves ($14,600) walked down the runway as look no. 36!
The crème de la crème has to be the Accurate Angel headpiece crafted by model-turned-designer Tomovyov, who made this piece from preserved mallard duck wings, which were ethically sourcee and taxidermied by himself!
Closing out the story, Gaga steps into a dreamlike final tableau wearing a cream satin coat dress from the Enfants Riches Déprimés Spring/Summer 2025 collection. She skips the runway’s tuxedo shirt and bow tie, letting the sculptural tailoring and cascading sleeves speak for themselves.
To complete the ethereal cream ensemble, Gaga layered in a subtle but striking archival detail: a cream satin garter corset belt from their Spring/Summer 2024 collection. The piece features the house’s signature red key embroidery, stitched delicately with the label’s initials.
Peek closer and you‘ll be able to see a knee-high sock version of these FALKE Cream Swirl tights on her.
Genius. The look was crowned with yet another insane feathered headpiece, this time a bespoke Lillian Shalom creation in cream and blue tones!
Another grandeur accessory in this editorial gotta be this vintage Dior by John Galliano Fall/Winter 1997 gunmetal and jet crystal choker.
Underneath, a vintage Jean Paul Gaultier midnight-blue enamel cross necklace with crystal star and name plaque detail
Both jewelry pieces above were provided by The Archive x Yana.
Last but definitely not least, the Italian-American beauty completes her Enfants Riches Déprimés look with these appropriate Spring/Summer 2025 Hollow Cross bi-colored lace-up platform booties ($1,460).
For the editorial, Frederic Aspiras approached hair as sculpture — shaping it into wing-like forms that echo the instinct, power and mystery of the raven. Every strand was hand-built to feel alive in motion, extending Gaga’s silhouette and reflecting the world she wanted to conjure in these images.
The raven-black mullet, paired with textured framing pieces, became the emotional core of the look: sharp, symbolic and deliberately imperfect — grounding the fantasy in something visceral and human.
Aspiras describes the collaboration as an act of trust: taking an idea, a feeling, a symbol, and turning it into form. This shoot captures that alchemy — the artist, the craft and the story rising together.
