14 DAY TRIAL // Because fashion is art and you don’t throw away art or, even worse, feed it to the wild animals, the dress that Lady Gaga wore at the MTV Video Music Awards 2010 will be preserved.
As we also informed you at the time, for the latest awards ceremony, the singer chose an outfit that topped everything else she’d ever worn before, which, as fans would agree, is not an easy feat if your name is Lady Gaga.
To make a long story short, the singer walked the red carpet decked from head to toe in raw meat: a meat hat, a meat dress, meat boots and even a meat small clutch, much to the outrage of some and the delight of others.
Those wondering what exactly happened to the dress can breathe easy now for the design (if one may call it that) was not destroyed, but will actually be preserved, E! Online has learned.
This is not just a rumor either, because E! contacted the designer himself to hear of the fate of the much criticized and highly controversial dress.
“You might assume that the dress, made from a cut of meat known as ‘matambre’ in the designer’s home country of Argentina, would be headed for some sort of Deep Freeze. Otherwise, it would become a hostel for maggots,” E! notes.
“But you’d be wrong. The designer, Franc Fernandez, tells me the beef’s true fate,” the same report reads.
“The dress will go through a process where it becomes a sort of ‘jerky’ and will be archived. Thank you,” Fernandez says of the fate of the controversial piece.
“No, Mr. Fernandez, seriously, thank you – for sharing this. And for making sure that Gaga’s meat ensemble does not become a hotel for elitist maggots, and instead becomes, simply, beef jerky,” E! further says on a lighter note.
The maggot reference is actually a direct jab at PETA who, shortly after Gaga walked the red carpet at the VMAs, issued a statement saying the dress must have been riddled with maggots.
“Meat is the decomposing flesh of a tormented animal who didn’t want to die, and after a few hours under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh it is and likely be crawling in maggots – not too attractive, really,” the group said in the statement.
Ellen DeGeneres, who interviewed Gaga shortly after the VMAs and was equally offended by the dress, did not say anything about seeing crawlers on the singer’s dress and / or accessories.