Paris Haute Couture: Lady Gaga proves quite the muse

Timber legs? Five inch platforms? Moulded Sellotape jackets? Lady Gaga's inspiration is everywhere on day one of Paris Haute Couture.

Lady Gaga has missed a trick. She of the poker face and raw meat frock may soon have another addition to her bizarre wardrobe: timber legs.


Dutch fashion designer, Jan Taminiau, whose clients range from Dutch royalty to Pop Queen, Gaga herself, created what looked like stack cork platforms with grown-on boots for his Paris show, entitled Honor To Women today.

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The show notes gave an insight into the avant-garde mind of the 35-year-old, whose atelier can be found in the famous red light district of Amsterdam.

"With her timber legs, she moves slowly through the wood. She is inwardly strong, walking with her head up, proud of herself." "Playing with new silhouettes - which is where the staggering five inch cork platforms came into it - alters the body verticality," said the designer. Taminiau's idea being, by stretching a woman skywards she becomes almost an extension of nature, a woodland being. Geddit?

Thank goodness for Lady Gaga!

The conceptual designer, who trained with Olivier Theyskens, launched his own label in 2003 and has been one of several alternative-type couturiers offering something other than crucially classic to the grand smorgasbord that is haute couture.

Another atelier with 'out there' thinking is Maison Martin Margiela, who separated with their legendary founder two years ago but continue to bear his name and philosophy.

This season MMM honed in on traditional British Savile Row tailoring methods as a theme, dissecting and deconstructing the complexities of luxury men's suiting and juxtaposing it with technologically advanced materials.

Highlights included camel hair wool swathed together with black duct tape and Sellotape-like 'plastron' moulded into see-through jackets and a trench coat inset with visible tailoring stitching on seams. A nice touch was noting the amount of hours that had gone into the rendering of each garment (average 61).

Most Gaga-ish - if we are on the subject - were two car safety belts slung around the neck like a scarf with strategically placed handles to simulate the gesture of walking with hands in pockets. Extraordinary. She would love it!

Source Julia Robson

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