Dutch photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin clicked Lady GaGa in a stunning photoshoot for Visionaire Magazine newest issue. The cover was awarded a Guinness World Record for being the largest magazine ever produced, the deluxe version is 5 x 7 feet tall.

Lady GaGa portrays a mermaid dirty in oil, in a message about human brutal exploration of nature. Check out the front and back cover below:

Lady GaGa is covering the October issue of Harper’s Bazaar, check out the cover and the cover story description below:

A few months ago, Donatella Versace threw open the doors of the Versace archive in Milan, which contains pieces from the glorious, Medusa’d peak of the Gianni years, for Lady Gaga to plunder at will. “It was me and my friends,” Gaga remembers of this particular fashion moment. “We were all running around this warehouse laughing and putting on jackets and shoes. We started crying at one point. I’ve been dreaming of seeing those outfits my whole life.” Continue Reading »

On her first self portrait for a magazine cover, Lady GaGa talks about her activism pro gay rights and makes numerous comments about her relationship with the gay community, her music, and her decades-older “sisters” (as she describes them) referring to older times gay icons such as Madonna and Cher: Continue Reading »

Lady GaGa is gracing the June issue of Spanish magazine Yo Dona. She did a photoshoot and an interview for the magazine. Check the cover above.

Lady GaGa covers the next issue of NME Magazine in a photoshoot by Mariano Vivanco. Lady GaGa talked about her upcoming album “Born This Way” and shared her thoughts on criticism of her being manufactured (a product of her wigs, weird clothing, etc), to which she replies: “If you fucking rip my hairbow and my wig off my fucking head, my shoes, my bra, every single thing on my body, and you throw me on a piano with a microphone, I will fucking make you cry.”

The new NME issue hits the American newsstands on April 23th.

Lady GaGa is on the cover of the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar in photoshoot by Terry Richardson. Check the photoshoot below:

Lady GaGa was photographed by Mario Testino for the March issue of US Vogue magazine.

Lady GaGa has appeared at #44 on New Statesman magazine annual “50 People Who Matter” list. According to the magazine, the list features people who have “global influence” and a “world-changing potential”.

New Statesman is a British political magazine in a left-wing political alignment point of view.

When does a star become an icon? The moment she passes the six million mark on Twitter? The day she is nominated for six Grammy Awards? Or the month (August 2010) in which it is calculated she has sold more than 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide? Lady Gaga (left) has done all these things.

But that’s not it. In her own words: “God put me on earth for three reasons: to make loud music, gay videos and cause a damn ruckus.” Ah, the ruckus. It has become the Gaga art form, most recently seen in the shape of a dress made of raw meat that she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards, provoking outrage and uproar in equal measure (“What does Lady Gaga’s meat dress mean?” asked the BBC).

Gaga is used to such reactions: the world attends her every theatrical move, from the live routine that left her blood-soaked and ailing onstage to the red leather Elizabeth I dress that she wore to meet the Queen at the Royal Variety Show last year. And yet, while some say she redefines empty exhibitionism, her army of obsessed fans – whom she calls her “Little Monsters” – surge to her defence.

This is Gaga’s trick. While she is mainstream enough to sell huge quantities of records and duet with Beyoncé (on the nine-minute song “Telephone”, whose video features prison bondage and lesbian kisses), she has established herself as an ambassador for the marginalised, the lonely, the misunderstood. It’s a lucrative market.

There’s a limitless supply of alienated teenagers willing to sign up to a life of Gaga worship, especially since she tattooed her love for them on her arm (near another of her tattoos, from Rilke: “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself: must I write?”) But she was not always Gaga.

Born in New York City in 1986, Stefani Germanotta went to a private Catholic school on the Upper East Side, although she says her parents were from “lower-class families”. She was always, she says, an outsider, but a dorm-mate at New York University remembers her as “a very suburban, preppy, friendly, social party girl”.

The name “Lady Gaga” was born of a misspelt text by her then collaborator and producer, Rob Fusari (who tried to sue Gaga, saying she failed to pay him royalties for songs that he had co-written) – yet a New York Post profile claimed it was concocted by music industry executives.

This, too, is Gaga: a myth. The comparison is often made with Madonna – Gaga has inherited her mantle of Catholic-girl-turned-provocatrice. The feminist author Camille Paglia calls it “theft”, an image of an icon repurposed for modern times, but Gaga has morphed the brand with her own uncompromising, outlandish, androgynous style.

And for her millions of Little Monsters, she is not just an artist, a singer, or a wearer of impossible clothes, but their champion and heroine: the ultimate “self-professed freak”.

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Lady GaGa appears covered by meat on the cover of the new Vogue Hommes Japan magazine. The issue hits Japanese newsstands on Friday (September 10th 2010).

Check out the cover of the next issue of V Magazine, featuring Lady GaGa.