FASHION CREDITS: “THE FAME MONSTER” BY HEDI SLIMANE
World-renowned photographer and designer Hedi Slimane had the privilege to shoot Lady Gaga for her EP “The Fame Monster” back in 2009.
She was styled by Nicola Formichetti with assistance by Anna Trevelyan and Matthew “Dada” Williams. Hair by Peter Savic and makeup by Billy B. Her silver chrome nails are by Minx.
Above’s photo served as the cover of the EP.
The black vinyl cape is from London-based artist and fashion stylist Johnny Blueeyes‘ label House of Blueeyes “Don’t be Afraid of the Darkness within” Fall/Winter 2009 collection, inspired by hammer house horror classics from the 60s and 70s.
“Inspired by challenging the concept of fashion as elite and disconnecting”, Johnny tasked himself with putting together “a family of extremely talented designers, artists and performers to help bring individuality, love and fun back to fashion”.
The gold metallic jumpsuit with gold paillettes and feathers belongs to Alexander McQueen’s Fall/Winter 2007 “In Memory of Elizabeth Howe, Salem, 1962″ collection.
Those of you who visited the 2008 “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” exhibition in the MET Museum are told me they saw this gold marvel “live” as a part of “The Mutant Body”.
Our girl was wearing black leather spiky chain awe by Joji Kojima, a very promising jewelry designer based in Tokyo and chief at his former label Hotel Gluttony.
The top photo was featured on the ‘Bad Romance’ cover, where Gaga wore a sheer ruby red ruffle piece. What some of us thought was a dress and others believed was a top, is in fact a coat.
One-of-a-kind red silk organza coat custom-made for our girl by House of Organza - a label made by Lyall Hakaraia and Kim Howells , London-based designer and stylist whose made-to-measure couture creations I’m sure many of you saw in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue or Elle, among others.
Next, Lady Gaga poses in almost nothing but the Atsuko Kudo high-waisted black latex briefs with filigree lace trim (£104.17).
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Atsuko Kudo Latex Filigree Briefs (£104.17)
The black leather officer cap, she wears above, is made by David Samuel Menkes!
While the pyramid-studded latex cone mask is a customized erotic shop find, the other heavily spiked and studded leather cap with side zip closure is custom Haus of Gaga x Muto-Little Costumes. You might remember her wearing it at the Much Music Video Awards earlier that year.
Finally, we got Gaga rocking a simplistic-yet-not-so-simplistic black satin neoprene jacket with asymmetric zipper and high neck by RAD HOURANI.
Her sunglasses are the Y-Not in black by Oliver Goldsmith which date way back to 1966.
