Lady Gaga meat dress

That was Lady Gaga's unusual opening statement when she stepped onstage at MTV's Video Music Awards Sunday to receive her Video of the Year award from pop legend Cher.

After arriving at the ceremony in a dress from the late designer Alexander McQueen's final collection and then changing into a weighty, architectural gown and spiky crown by Giorgio Armani, Gaga turned heads (and we'd have to imagine noses) in her final outfit, a Franc Fernandez dress (plus boots, hat, and purse) cut together from what appeared to be slabs of raw meat. The outfit echoed the controversial meat bikini she recently wore for the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan.

After the show, in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Gaga tried to explain that the dress was a political statement. Discussing how she'd been escorted to the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles by members of the U.S. military who had been discharged from the service due to the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Lady Gaga said: "It is a devastation to me that I know my fans who are gay ... feel like they have governmental oppression on them. That's actually why I wore the meat tonight."




Lady Gaga covered in meat at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. OMG.
She won the award for Video of the Year. Cher presented that award and Lady Gaga handed her her “meat purse” when she accepted the award. She announced that her third album will be titled “Born This Way”.
Do you guys know which cut of meat she used? I see some inexpensive flank steaks.



The job of preserving Lady Gaga's meat dress for display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland was tasked to Burbank taxidermist Sergio Vigilato. Despite taking more than a month to complete the work on the 35-pound monstrosity, this was not his weirdest assignment to date, according to the LA Times.

"The first thing I asked was, 'Where is the dress? This thing could have maggots by now,' " Vigilato said. "I understood them to say it was in a room with air conditioning. I said make sure it's in a freezer."
The dress, created by Los Angeles artist and designer Franc Fernandez and stylist Nicola Formichetti, was made of "a dozen thin-cut flank steaks" that had been frozen and kept on ice since its debut. However, as it defrosted, "Vigilato found that the dress had begun decomposing before it had been frozen," as was evident by its odor.
Though declining to reveal his process of cleaning and curing "museum officials said it was treated with bleach, formaldehyde and detergent to remove bacteria." Once preserved, the meat was reconditioned, reassembled, glued to a mannequin, and dyed.

Fernandez, the designer, said he purchased about 40 pounds of beef for the dress from Palermo Deli in Granada Hills, where his Sylmar parents are longtime customers. He ended up using about 35 pounds of the meat for the dress and its accompanying hat, shoes and purse. Daniel Vega, co-owner of Palermo Deli, said he selected cuts of beef that would hold together and would not be dripping blood, after Fernandez explained what he intended to do with it. The beef was priced at about $3.99 a pound, Vega said.


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