Explaining Lady Gaga's prosthetic horns
In an interview with US Harper's Bazaar Lady Gaga explains the genesis of her horns.
BY Melissa Whitworth | 14 April 2011
Lady Gaga knows how to push the boundaries of fashion. She and her design "haus" have made her dresses made entirely of meat and twine, bondage gear for shopping trips and an alien pod from which the popstar hatched on the red carpet at the Grammys.
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When her latest single Born This Way was released in February, she was photographed wearing prosthetic horns on her forehead, cheekbones and shoulders. In an interview with this month's US Harper's Bazaar she gets testy with the writer, when he asks her to explain the meaning behind her embellishments.
She tells the magazine she is at her happiest "living every day somewhere between reality and fantasy at all times."
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The writer explains that the only "tense" part of their meeting occurs when he asks her to explain this latest look.
Well, first of all," Gaga says, "they're not prosthetics. They're my bones.... They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.
"They come out when I'm inspired."
Asked if she might encourage her fans to alter their image in the same way, she says: "We all have these bones! They're the light from inside of us."
"It's artistic expression," Gaga says. "It's a performance-art piece. I have never, ever encouraged my fans or anyone to harm themselves, nor do I romanticise masochism. Body modification is part of the overarching analysis of Born This Way . In the video, we use Rico, who is tattooed head to toe [including a skull on his face]. He was born that way. Although he wasn't born with tattoos, it was his ultimate destiny to become the man he is today.
"And how many models and actresses do you see on magazine covers who have brand-new faces and have had plastic surgery, while I myself have never had any plastic surgery? I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me."
She credits the late, great Alexander McQueen as the inspiration - creator even - for Born This Way .
"I think he planned the whole thing: Right after he died, I wrote Born This Way ," she says. "I think he's up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing." The record label moved the release date for her album to the day that also marks the one-year anniversary of McQueen's death.
"When I heard that, I knew he planned the whole damn thing. I didn't even write the f***ing song. He did!"
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