Lady Gaga Gets Candid About Whether She'd Ever Wear Another Meat Dress (Her Response May Surprise You!)

Mar. 15, 2025

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Lady Gaga attends the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre tout

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Lady Gagais revisiting one of her most iconic looks.

The singer also famously asked Cher to hold her purse made of raw meat when she went up to accept an award at the 2010 ceremony.Vanity Fairasked Gaga is the moment brought her closer to Cher, prompting Gaga to reply: “I think so. In the moment.”

Lady Gaga attends the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre

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Lady Gaga’s meat dress.

Lady Gaga Meat Dress

Jun Francisco, the Director of Collections, explained that the dress had to be preserved like beef jerky and transported in a climate-controlled truck. The meat was apparently “very hard” to the touch, and was displayed alongside Gaga’s matching meat shoes.

Per theReno Gazette-Journal, the meat dress became part of the exhibit at the Haus of Gaga museum in Las Vegas in 2019.

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During a 2019 appearance onWatch What Happens Livewith Andy Cohen, fashion designer Brandon Maxwell, who helped style Gaga for the 2010 VMAs, saidhe was a vegan at the time.

“I wore really long opera length gloves and a mask and just kind of got through it,” Maxwell told hostAndy Cohen.

The designer also shared that Gaga created the entire concept of the look. “That was hers,” Maxwell said. “She’s in charge of her ship.”

source: people.com