Lady Gaga graces the cover of US Vogue for March 2011, photographed by Mario Testino. Styled by Tonne Goodman, the singer dons looks from Alexander McQueen, Louis Vuitton, Haider Ackermann, and Hussein Chalayan. Her editorial is great, especially those two sensational McQueen shots. Highlights from her interview follow.
On influences: Gaga herself is very open about her influences. “It’s not a secret that I have been inspired by tons of people,” she says, “David Bowie and Prince being the most paramount in terms of live performance.” She also seems to have made peace with the fact that she is compared to—or, less charitably, accused of ripping off—nearly every artist of the last 50 years. “I could go on and on about all of the people I have been compared to—from Madonna to Grace Jones to Debbie Harry to Elton John to Marilyn Manson to Yoko Ono—but at a certain point you have to realize that what they are saying is that I am cut from the cloth of performer, that I am like all of those people in spirit.” She takes a bite of filet mignon and says with her mouth full, “She was born this way.”
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