Gaga breaks the dress code

Just think of what the members will say. Lady Gaga brought her slime tank and bondage-garbed back-up dancers to Annabels for an intimate set last night.

By ELLE UK and NonePublished: 13 May 2011

<p>Lady Gaga performing in London last night</p>

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After arriving in a transparent animal-print crop top, matching leggings and a swathe of evergreen tulle, Gaga took to the stage to perform acoustic versions of five songs from her new album.

The 150-person audienceincluding Kate Moss and Florence Welch, wearing Mark Fastwas held rapt by Gagas on-stage antics, which extended to dancing in a tank of slime for one of the songs.

Earlier in the day, Gaga headed to ITV Studios wearing a disc-shaped white dress by Central Saint Martins graduate Liz Black. The whole collection is very Lady Gaga, Black, who was just named as one of 11 Fashion Fringe semi-finalists, said. I always hoped that she would wear one of my designsIm so grateful.

And at some point between all of the shows, television appearances, consultancy work, video shoots and outfit changes, Gaga found time to write her first column for V Magazine. Its a doozy: a 1,445-word paean to Andy Warhol, Yves Saint Laurent, and the artistic enlightenment of Lady Gaga. The past undergoes mitosis, becoming the originality of the future, she says. More:

I have a passionate understanding of the history of many of the references that not only I have reinspired, but have been reinterpreted over centuries of fashion: where they came from, what they meant, and specifically how they became modern again. I have concurrently shown that I could read you in this subject, but I would rather reckon with the fact that many are clinging tightly to cultural divisiveness and leaving home without library cards.

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