Lady Gaga fashion: Trendy or try hard?

I’m glad I’m not Lady Gaga. She must be under constant pressure to keep coming up with the oddest outfits possible. We all know her fashion sense is a little er, quirky. First it was her fear of pants, and the teacup she carried everywhere, then the face paint. But she is definitely not the first to go down that road – Kiss opted for OTT facial make-up and made it their trademark.

The futuristic shoulder pads and leggings, we could somewhat follow. They were everywhere. Stores like Bardot and Supré, among many others, went into overdrive with the wet-look leggings trend that Gaga seemed to have started. For a while there I was worried that normal pants would never be sold again. But those of us who did not perform on stage for a living could tone them down and adjust the look to everyday wear.

And now it seems she has run out of ideas. As if the Kermit coat wasn’t enough, she recently performed on a Japanese TV show wearing an elephant hat made out of her own hair, eek. I wonder, does she actually like wearing these things, or is she just trying to cause a stir?

Lady Gaga's elephant hat

Earlier this year, she appeared on the variety TV show Rove with a crockenbush inspired hair style. The poor thing could hardly move and she had to have her hair re-done before her performance so it didn’t fall off her head.

'Crockenbush' hairstyle. Source: The Daily Mail.

I try to imagine an everyday person walking around Chadstone Shopping Centre with leggings and a coat that looks like it is under attack by cane toads… No, I just cannot see it. What would our reaction be? The first thing that comes to mind would be to help them get those frogs off. Or perhaps we would just stare.

Lady Gaga's Kermit coat

So why, when a celebrity wears the craziest things, are they dubbed a fashion icon, but everyday people have to endure stares and giggles? Are we that desperate for trends that we will wear the most ridiculous things, just because a celeb does? And do fashion magazines alternatively decide what we wear by publishing these looks and calling them ‘trends’?

The Boston Globe recently reported that Lady gaga is going to follow other singer’s footsteps and start her own fashion line. What is she going to sell, reindeer hats? And who is going to buy her clothes?

Would you?

Fashion gal xx

Check out her performance

You can read the whole article on Lady Gaga’s new mission, published in The Boston Globe here:

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2009/05/14/serving_notice/

And if you want to see more crazy Lady Gaga fashion, follow this link:

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