The 30-year-old pop sensation looked like a throwback to 1980s hair metal as she arrived to futuristic-themed Met Gala on Monday.
Gaga sported over-the-top bottle blonde hair, fishnets, a metallic bodice and matching jacket, and crazy platform stilettos.
The pop
star wore bright lip paint and dramatic make-up as she looked to have
stepped out of an Eighties hair metal music video in her anachronistic
costume.
Gaga
completed her attire with a metallic bralette as she rocked massive
statement earrings and a facial expression that spoke of the 'whatever'
attitude of 1980s youth culture.
Don't fall
over! Gaga sported over-the-top bottle blonde hair, fishnets, a metallic
bodice and matching jacket, and crazy platform stilettos
Keeping her Poker Face: The singer
impressively kept her balance in the lace up sky high platforms as she
made her way up the Metropolitan Museum's carpeted stairs
The
Met Gala is hosted this year by Taylor Swift as well as Editor of
American Vogue Anna Wintour, Idris Elba, and Jonathan Ive, chief design
officer of Apple.
Wintour took over as chairwoman of the gala in 1999.
Since
then, she has transformed what was once a local fundraiser into one of
the world's most elite costume parties that ranks as a celeb magnet only
equaled by the Academy Awards red carpet - with A-listers hungry for a
chance to be the muse of a fashion designer.
The
honorary chairs are the Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld; Miuccia Prada;
and Nicolas Ghesquière, Louis Vuitton’s artistic director.
A vision from the past: The pop star
wore bright lip paint and dramatic make-up as she looked to have stepped
out of an Eighties hair metal music video in her anachronistic costume
All
will be in attendance except for Mr. Lagerfeld, who will be in Cuba
because the Chanel Cruise show is in Havana the day after the gala,
according to the New York Times.
The
newspaper added that tickets this year are $30,000 apiece, and tables
are $275,000. The party and exhibit are sponsored (this year Apple is
the main underwriter), so all the money raised from ticket sales goes to
the Costume Institute. Last year, more than $12.5 million was raised.
Time to party like it's 1989! The Poker Face singer was seen arriving to an after party later that night
While
the price of a ticket may itself be an insurmountable bar for most, the
event is also invite only, with Wintour presiding meticulously over the
guest list, which predictably includes film stars, pop sensations, and
fashion models each year - with the addition most recently of reality
stars.
The
theme for this year's ball is Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of
Technology, which seeks to prove that the machine is an 'equal
protagonist' to the hand in creating the best fashions of our recent
past, our present and our future.
Inspiration? The band Vixen, Chicago, Illinois, July 12, 1989
