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The Fashion Statement: Outre In at the Oscars?

Blame Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and consumer confidence: all reasons why Oscar fashion is expected to be dialed way up this year.

Hollywood actresses have suffered a fashion drought for years-showing up in any ensemble that said "conspicuous consumption" was a faux pas in the midst of economic misfortunes. But, now, as consumer confidence rises, so will the ante at this year's awards ceremony, say the experts. Colors are expected to be bolder, silhouettes more distinctive, baubles flashier: In other words, Sunday's red-carpet parade is shaping up to be a good show.

In fashion, one is always emboldened by precedent. "Artists are starting to dress much more crazy, more out there and it has a ripple effect on fashion," designer Marc Bouwer told Reuters yesterday. "While you won't see a Lady Gaga outfit necessarily on the Oscar red carpet, you will see more architectural styles -- an expanded shoulder, a pronounced sleeve. The stronger power woman has emerged, and you cannot ignore that trend."

Last month's Golden Globes, to which numerous luminaries turned out in pink, rose and pale skin tones, is always a good indicator of things to come at the Oscars. But you could see more purples, greens, oranges and indigo blues, too.

Tags: Academy Awards 2011, Diamond Information Center, Golden Globes, Lady Gaga, Natalie Portman, Nicki Minaj, Oscars, Patty Fox

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Lady Gaga's Deliciously Creepy Ad For MAC Viva Glam

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Leave it to Lady Gaga to make nude lipstick goth. The pop star stars in a uniquely eerie video for her Viva Glam line with MAC Cosmetics. Her image flickers in an out, changing color in a mirror surrounded by crystal-studded skulls and a martini glass with a goldfish swimming inside. Gaga's nuder-than-nude MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick and Lipglass raise money to benefit the Viva Glam program and the MAC AIDS Fund. The collection can be purchased via the official website. Our sibling blog Stylelist recently tested out the new shades and said that the "creamy lipstick goes on smooth and when topped with the shimmering lip gloss, it creates a doll-like finish that would make Nicki Minaj blink 10 times as fast."

[via Idolator]

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Lady Gaga Arrives At The Grammys In An Egg

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How did Lady Gaga trump her famous meat dress ensemble? The pop star showed up at the Grammys encased in a wild translucent space egg on a litter carried by a golden assemblage of goddess-like men. Before the Grammys, Gaga's Twitter followers received a message that Lady Gaga was "incubating" and that tonight's performance is in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan and House of Mugler. Gaga's close friend and personal stylist Nicola Formichetti is the house's creative director.

Last month on our sister site, Stylelist.com, Lady Gaga debuted a new video that also featured House of Mugler fashions. The Hollywood Reporter says that she had an oxygen tank in the egg (and hopefully also a fan, it's been unseasonably warm in Southern California today). Last year Lady Gaga arrived at Grammys in a galaxy-like Armani Prive concoction. Somehow, she always manages to top herself.

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The Fashion Statement: Will 2011 be the Year of the Hat?

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Filed under: The Fashion Statement

Hats worn for the express purpose of style hasn't been widely popular since the '20s. Millinery did have a brief comeback in the '80s when Princess Diana gave visibility to the British tradition of wearing hats for special occasions. Now Kate Middleton is again putting a modern face under the British topper. And numerous designers on both sides of the pond made the hat a central focus of their spring/summer runway collections. And then there is Lady Gaga entertaining us all with her theatrical chapeaus.

Not since the '80s have we seen so many hats! So we wonder: Could 2011 be the year of the hat?

Arguably the most buzzed about accessory of the season was the colorful, wide-brimmed hat like the one above at Prada. Badgley Mischka and Marc Jacobs channeled Jodi Foster in Taxi Driver with their bright pink versions shown over hair that had been appropriately curled and frizzed. Sally Field in The Flying Nun would have fit right in at Missoni where almost every model wore hats that flapped down the runway like wings. And Alberta Ferretti went boho by pairing floppy fringed brims with her collection of gauzy ethereal gowns.

Gallery: Hat Gallery

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The Fashion Statement: The Best Dressed Women of 2010

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This was the year politician's wives, fashion editors and designers shoved Hollywood (except for Carey Mulligan perhaps) and the music industry aside to become the best dressed women of the year.

Fashion blogs everywhere have been writing about what fashion insiders Japanese Vogue editrix Anna Dello Russo was wearing in addition to their daily chronicles of Lady Gaga. What was French Vogue's Carine Roitfeld wearing front row at Marc Jacobs? What was Elle's style director Kate Lanphear doing in an online campaign for CFDA/Vogue fund finalist Eddie Borgo? Wrote New York Mag's The Cut in July: "Borgo calls Kate, whose regular appearances on street-style blogs have won her an online cult following, the 'epitome of the modern-day punk.' If anyone needed more face time on The City, it's this woman. Then again, her elusiveness is one of the things that makes her so cool." As for Roitfeld (pictured above), who just this week shocked everybody by announcing she's bidding French Vogue adieu, proved that women in their 50s (she's 56) don't have to age.

Gallery: Best Dressed

Tags: Alexa Chung, Anna Dello Russo, Carine Roitfeld, CarlaBruni-sarkozy, Carrie Mulligan, georgina chapman, Kate Lanphear, Kate Middleton, Lady Gaga, Michelle Obama

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The Fashion Statement: Worst Fashion Disasters of 2010

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Filed under: The Fashion Statement

When you think of the greatest fashion disasters of all time, you think of Bjork's swan in the '90s, Cher's evil bird slash cage gown in the '80s and Barbara Streisand's see-through pajamas in the '60s. But 2010 could be the year of the biggest fashion train wrecks of all time!

This year was filled with more fashion faux pas than any of the aforementioned could rack up in a lifetime. Style missteps are an astounding feat these days when you consider that celebrities have an army of stylists, fashion designers panting for exposure and, one would think, a mirror or two.

Of course, at the top of the trashy heap is Lady Gaga and her meat dress she debuted at the MVA's. Aside from assaulting our senses and pushing animal cruelty in our face, she wants us to feel sorry for her because she feels like a piece of meat?

Venus Williams was another grand slam in the disaster department. She showed up to play at the French open in red and black lingerie. Kinda cute idea. Problem was the skin-tight shorts she wore under the getup were the same color as her flesh causing everybody to think they saw her butt cheeks.

Gallery: Worst Disasters

Tags: amber rose, CharlizeTheron, courtney love, jennifer lopez, KeshaSebert, lady gaga, rihanna, venus williams, worst dressed

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Ulysse Nardin Executive Lady Dual Time Watch

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Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

Using their popular UN-24 "dual time" automatic movement, Ulysse Nardin released this female version of their Executive Dual Time watch. Though not perhaps inline with traditional Ulysse Nardin aesthetic, the Executive Dual Time collection has been a good seller for the Swiss brand. The dials all have have segments of mother-of-pearl, matched with various colors (such as the above watch in purple). Also note the available diamonds on the dial.

The second timezone is located "digitally" on the left of the dial. That is the second timezone hour indicator, and the minutes are read with the main minute hand. There is also a "big date" indicator and subsidiary seconds hand. Nice looking and functional right? The case is 40mm wide and available in steel or 18k rose gold. The white bezel is in ceramic, as are the pushers on the left of the case to change the second timezone. The strap is either in white rubber or alligator. The Executive Lady collection is unique in style and mixes modernity with some classic aesthetics nicely.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

Gallery: Ulysse Nardin Executive Lady Dual Time Watch

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Giuseppe Zanotti's Fall Jewelry Line

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We've covered Giuseppe Zanotti's handbag and shoe designs before. He is now in the world of jewelry design. His Fall 2010 line picks up where his studded shoes and bedazzled bags leave off with leather, spikes, crosses and other rock-and-roll friendly designs. Last month at the MTV Music Awards Lady Gaga took Zanotti's Swarovski crystal covered choker and matching cuff for a spin. The pieces shown at right are made of silver-colored galvanized brass, with claw-set mini and maxi Swarovski crystals. The choker is 1,300 euros and the cuff is 600 euros.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up: 10/10/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Le Belvedere, a Los Angeles mansion that originally listed for $85 million has sold for $50 million.

Gallery: $85 Million in Bel Air

--The Malibu, California home of the late philanthropist Nancy M. Daly, the ex-wife of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, has sold for more than $40 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Robert Burns, the found of the Regent International hotel group and his wife Janice have bought 2 East 70th Street for $13.5 million
--Yerim Sow, a Senagalese telecom mogul has sold his three-bedroom apartment for $19 million.
--Bernard Ruiz-Picasso has purchased an Astor Place penthouse at 439 Lafayette Street for $7.2 million.
--Neil and Nancy Fire Breslau have sold their penthouse at 111 Central Park North. The couple had bought the apartment for $4.975 million with the intent of flipping it but ended up selling it for $4.525 million.
--Cary Coltun, a senior vice president at megabuilders Bovis Lend Lease, has just bought a 2,000-square-foot condo duplex with his wife Michelle for $3.1 million.
--The $12 million purchaser of Bob and Courtney Novogratz's revamped Nolita townhouse at 5 Centre Market Place is Gregory Soros, son of of one of the world's richest men, George Soros.
--Maura Mandt, who has produced the Espy Awards shows for ESPN just bought a co-op at 50 East 10th Street for $1.15 million.
--Actor Mark Linn-Baker, who was on the show "Perfect Strangers" recently sold his three-bedroom apartment at 17 West 71st Street for $2.85 million.

From the NY Post:
--Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones bought a brick, center-hall Colonial mansion in Bedford, New York for $5.25 million.
-- "Real Housewives of New York" star Jill Zarin and her husband Bobby toured a $3.9 million four-bedroom condo at the Rushmore development on Riverside Boulevard. The Zarins are currently living at 401 E. 60th St. in a three-bedroom, 1,956-square-foot apartment which was on the market last year but didn't sell.

Gallery: A Real Housewife In New York City

--Retail broker Robert Futterman of RKF just closed on a $6.6 million penthouse at the Hudson Lofts condo building at 345 W. 13th St.
--Katy Perry and Lady Gaga might be New York City neighbors in TriBeCa. Perry and fiancé Russell Brand recently bought a $2.7 million penthouse duplex on North Moore Street in TriBeCa, and Lady Gaga, who's been on an extensive downtown apartment search, just visited a $14.95 million TriBeCa penthouse at 33 Vestry St.

Tags: bob eubanks, celebrity real estate, jane seymour, jill zarin, lady gaga, le belevedere, michael douglas, nancy daly, nicole kidman, ryan murphy, vidal sassoon

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 08/15/10

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Filed under: Estates

From Newsday's Real LI:
--A Bridgehampton estate that once belonged to John Weitz, a fashion designer and novelist, is on the market for $8.995 million. Weitz's sons are Chris Weitz, director of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" film, and his brother, Paul. Together, the sons directed and produced the "American Pie" comedies. The listing is here.
--A 12,000-square-foot Water Mill home owned and designed by famed artist and architect Setsuo Ito is up for auction. It is listed for $10.995 million but Ito could choose a buyer through sealed bids between now and Aug. 15 based not only on the amount offered but the conditions of the offer, such as closing time and financing. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--A new luxury building near the High Line will be home to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. They have just closed on a $10 million penthouse at 200 11th Ave. Kidman and Urban's new neighbors include Domenico Dolce of Dolce & Gabbana, who bought two penthouses for $29 million. Their three-bedroom penthouse was listed for $12.5 million. Interior designer Jamie Drake has also just closed on a $5 million unit in the building.
--Screenwriter Allan Loeb who wrote "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," is buying a two-bedroom at 141 Fifth Ave. for close to $3.9 million. The penthouse duplex at 31 W. 21st St., which served as the home of Shia LaBeouf's character in the movie is on the market for $15 million.
--Lady Gaga is still checking out apartment rentals in the $20,000 to $25,000 range. Most recently she was spotted at 408 Greenwich St. in TriBeCa looking at a large one-bedroom $24,000-a-month rental.
--Edmund Carpenter, the retired CEO of the Barnes Group, a car and plane parts manufacturer, and his wife, Mary, just bought a co-op at 840 Park Ave. for $9.25 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Graham Nash has listed his Encino, California home for $1.6 million.
-- Kevin Nealon has picked up a new home in the Pacific Palisades for $3.45 million.
--Leeza Gibbons has picked up a home in Beverly Hills for $6.6 million.

From US Weekly:
--Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have recently purchased a two-bedroom, three-bath house in the L.A. area. The home was recently listed around $2.8 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Rapper and actress Eve has dropped the price on her Hollywood Hills home to $2.050 million or it can be leased for $15,000 a month. It was listed at $2.295 million back in February. She bought the home in 2005 for $1.775 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Eve In Los Angeles

--"Hawthorne" producer Preston Fischer and his wife, Marsha Lewis, have listed their Marina Del Rey penthouse at $899,000. The listing is here.
--Scarlett Johansson has sold her walled and gated Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills for $4 million. She bought her home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for an even $7 million in 2007, she seems willing to take a deep loss on the home. The home was listed at $4.995 million.

Gallery: Scarlett Johansson in Los Angeles

--Singer Donna Summer has purchased a unit in the Carlyle Residences that was listed at $3.8 million.

Tags: celebrity real estate, donna summer, graham nash, Keith Urban, Lady Gaga, leeza gibbons, Nicole Kidman, scarlett johansson

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up: 08/01/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Real Estalker:
--Sacha Baron Cohen has listed his Los Angeles home for $2.9 million. It is also listed for lease for $11,995. The listing is here. Cohen and his wife, Isla Fisher, recently bought a new lavish seven-bedroom home.

From the NY Post:
--Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos may be quietly shopping their duplex penthouse at 76 Crosby St. They bought the 9,865-square-foot unit for $9.5 million in 2005 but it could bring as much as $15 million to $20 million now.
--Stephen Haymes, whose family real estate business owns 5 Penn Plaza, has just sold "The Point," an home on 2.2 acres in Westhampton for $13 million, far less than its original $20 million asking price. The buyer is hedge-funder Paul Levy.
--Nick Rizzo Jr., managing director of Loeb Partners Realty, just bought a $3.5 million, new-construction home in Sagaponack.
--Lady Gaga's latest apartment hunting took her to a four-bedroom penthouse at SoHo Mews that is listed for $9.975 million. This is the same property that Katy Perry and Russell Brand looked at in June.
--Sarah Jessica Parker was spotted checking out the $24.5 million, 11,875-square-foot townhouse at 870 Park Ave as well as the $20 million former Woolworth mansion at 2 E. 80th St.

From Move Trends:
--Meg Ryan's Bel Air home is now listed for rent for $40,000 a month. The home hit the market last year for $14.2 million. She bought the six-bedroom home for $8.995 million in 2000.

Gallery: Meg Ryan in Bel Air

From the Wall Street Journal:
--Phil McGraw, a.k.a. Dr. Phil, has bought an estate in Beverly Hills for $29.5 million.His Beverly Hills home is listed for $16.5 million.

Gallery: Dr. Phil in Beverly Hills

--A ranch owned by the family of Malcolm Forbes, the late chairman and editor in chief of Forbes magazine, has hit the market in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for $12 million.
--Real-estate investor Michele Hughes will auction off a seven-acre oceanfront estate on Kauai's Anini Beach next month. Her 40-acre unlisted beachfront property in Kauai's Kilauea is available for $40 million.

Gallery: Pueo Point

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Earloomz Launches Lady Gaga Headsets With Concert Giveaway

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Filed under: Gadgets

Earloomz, a maker of Bluetooth headsets adorned with designs featuring Paul Frank, Hello Kitty, NBA all-star teams and more is going Gaga, Lady Gaga that is. Earloomz has created a special "The Fame Monster" headset and is also offering a contest to celebrate the launch. Earloomz is sending two lucky winners to meet Lady Gaga at her sold-out concert in Las Vegas on August 13, 2010. The prize package includes: airfare, hotel accommodations for each winner and one guest, transportation to and from the airport, and concert venue. Winners will be invited to an exclusive meet-and-greet with Lady Gaga backstage. Contestants will receive one entry for every Earloomz Bluetooth purchased on www.Earloomz.com before midnight August 10, 2010. The design shown above is just one of four Lady Gaga designs. The Earloomz GL500 Glamorous Life line features Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR technology, noise cancellation, Mic noise reduction, lower power consumption, voice prompt, support multiple devices, and 16-bit resolution audio which can greatly enhance audio quality. The series sells for $59.99.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up 07/25/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Real Estalker:
--The ex-wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, Jo Wood, has listed their home in Kingston on Thames, shown above, for £13,000,000. The listing is here.
--Actress Peri Gilpin of Fraser fame and her artist husband Christian Vincent were the buyers of Shabby Chic creator Rachel Aswell's Malibu home.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--The Beverly Hills home of the late Ed McMahon is back on the market for $4.6 million. This is the same price it was listed at in 2008. The listing is here.
--Actor Ving Rhames and his wife, Deborah have sold a Brentwood house that had been listed as a short sale. The five-bedroom house sold for $1.95 million. It had been listed on and off for three years and was at $2.699 million when we checked it out in 2008. It had been purchased five years ago for $2.5 million. The couple also sold a larger Brentwood home in late June for $5,520,786 that had been purchased in 2005 for $6.5 million.

Gallery: Ving Rhames in Brentwood

--Olympic medal winner Carl Lewis has sold his Pacific Palisades home for $2.5 million.
Rapper and "Pimp My Ride" host Alvin " Xzibit" Joiner has lowered the price of his Woodland Hills, California home to $650,000. He bought the home in 2003 for $670,000. The listing is here.
--Filmmaker, commercial director and restaurateur Joe Pytka has sold Castillo del Lago in the Hollywood Hills for $7 million. He bought the home from Madonna in 1996 for $5.3 million. The home was first listed at $14.95 million in April of last year.

Gallery: Castillo del Lago

Actress and real estate agent Dana Sparks has listed her Lake Sherwood contemporary at $2.555 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Lady Gaga is still apartment hunting in New York City most recently checking out a four-bedroom One Morton Square rental.
--Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have been looking at a $29.8 million penthouse duplex at the Mayfair building at 610 Park Ave.
--A a Tribeca home once rented by Leonardo DiCaprio and Gwen Stefani is on the market at $6.995 million.
--Pet-food tycoon Leonard Stern and his wife, Allison, are purchasing a SoHo penthouse to live in while their 110-year-old Fifth Avenue mansion is being renovated uptown. They are in contract to buy a penthouse duplex at 25 W. Houston St. for about $8 million.

From the NY Times:
--Donald J. Trump Jr. sold his condominium at 220 Riverside Boulevard at Trump Place this month for $1.845 million.

From Chicago Breaking Business:
--Nicholas Pritzker, the chief executive and chairman of the Hyatt Development Corp. and a member of the Pritzker family, has placed his contemporary-style mansion on 45 acres on Lake Michigan in Covert, Michigan on the market for $4.95 million.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 07/18/10

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times:
The Tuscan-style villa in the Beverly Hills Post Office area used to film the VH-1 show "Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch," starring Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco, is on the market for $13.5 million. The home has a great room with 28-foot-high coffered ceilings, a drop-down projector and a 15-foot retractable screen (shown above). The listing is here.
--A Beverly Hills home owned by entertainer Dean Martin in the 1980s has come on the market at $4.495 million.
--Designer Rachel Ashwell, the creator of the Shabby Chic brand, has sold her Malibu cottage for $3.55 million.

From the NY Post:
--Lady Gaga has been spotted checking out the same $21,000-a-month penthouse rental at 304 Spring St. that other celebs including director Baz Luhrmann have visited recently. The listing is here.
--Joe Torre's former Westchester residence is up for auction. The six-bedroom mansion in New Rochelle, New York had originally been listed at $2.695 million. It is being auctioned off by Bidonthecity.com on July 20.
--Bidonthecity.com is also auctioning off a piece of music history, the Pelham, New York childhood home of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Felix Cavaliere. Cavaliere's band, The Rascals, wrote and performed classics like "Groovin' " and "Good Lovin'." The five-bedroom home was originally listed at $1.095 million. It is also up for auction on July 20.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Software-company founder Frank Pritt has relisted his Orange County mansion for $49.6 million, down from the $75 million he originally sought in 2006. We've been following the story of Pritt's Portabello mansion since 2006. The 22,000-square-foot beachfront estate in Corona del Mar, California has even been seen on "Oprah." It was pulled off the market last year.

Gallery: Portabello Estate

--A Massachusetts estate once listed for $23.5 million has been sold, divided, for $11.45 million in total. A carriage house on the property sold last year for $2.25 million. In June, the rest of the estate sold for $9.2 million. It was our estate of the day in 2008.

Gallery: The Wyck Estate

Tags: celebrity real estate, Chad Ochocinco, dean martin, felix cavaliere, janice min, jim morrison, Joe Torre, Lady Gaga, mel brooks, rachel ashwell, scott baio

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Lady Gaga's Urinal Prop Becomes Art

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Lady Gaga has made many unexpected things trendy lately but can she work her magic on urinals? The pop star made a surprise appearance at the private preview of Inside/Out an exhibition at the SHOWstudio.com Shop in London late last month and presented her own piece of art, a urinal. She put the urinal on its side next to Terence Koh's bronze casting of a head. The back of the bowl reads: "I'm not f**king Duchamp but I love pissing with you." An obvious reference to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, one of his "readymades" that were presented as art in the early 20th century. The piece has been named Armitage Shanks and is not for sale. The urinal was a prop from the recent infamous Vogue Hommes Japan photoshoot in which Nick Knight shot Lady Gaga as a man. The images of the model billed as "Jo Calderone" will appear in the magazine's September issue.

[via Vogue UK]

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