My costume is a re-creation of Lady GaGa’s infamous Meat Dress that she wore on the 2010 VMA’s. I clearly couldn’t use real meat because people would be slightly angry at me and I don’t have enough money to cover myself in beef. So I decided to create my own GaGa costume with a slightly more manageable medium – fabric and paint. It took me around 2 weeks to make, from start to finish.
I purchased a bodysuit and some red fabric and looked endlessly at pictures of how GaGa’s was draped. I then bought some red fabric and cut it into the shape of her costume. After I had all of the fabric draped and glued (I can’t sew), I began to paint on the “meat” design. I used a combo of red and white fabric paint to create the meaty pattern, and then when I was finished, I added strips of white fabric to look like the fatty parts of meat. I then had to create the headpiece and shoe pieces the same way, eventually attaching the shoe pieces to my heels with actual butcher twine.
Then I moved on to her jewelry. She had massive sparkly jewels on at the show, so I purchased some big rhinestones and glued them onto a strip of fabric, which attached around my neck with velcro. This costume took a ton of time to create and a lot of money to make. I also had made a wig similar to GaGa’s with the light blue at the bottom, but it kept falling in my face, so I had to use a different wig.
I think homemade GaGa costumes are the best type to make because it’s almost impossible to find good versions of what she wears from a store.
You rock
too much
it’s unnecessary to be this awesome
because you are so awesome you make others pail in comparison
this meat dress looks scrumptious even though it is not made of meat
that’s how awesome you are
cheeseburger mmmmm
Wow, this is so freaking AMAZING! I am so going to dress up as this in halloween! Only a month away, I better get busy :3 Thanks for the idea!
Great job and fantastic painting skill OMG, I was just amazed by your ideas