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Anna Wintour on Lady Gaga
From Gaga's Vogue Issue:
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Who better to star in our eleventh annual Power Issue than the cultural juggernaut that is Lady Gaga? This year we've focused the issue on the power of the individual - the figures who compel and challenge us - and no one satisfies that brief more than she. I first met Gaga at the 'Vogue' offices during the New York collections in September 2009. It was definitely an event. She arrived in a transparent chalk-white John Galliano slip dress, her face barely visible beneath an enormous hat affixed with the 'Vogue' logo ('It's my homage to Isabella Blow,' she said), before changing to meet her idol Grace Coddington, who had cast her as the witch in the 'Hansel and Gretel' story that she and Annie Leibovitz were about to shoot. That evening, at the Marc Jacobs show, Gaga shared the spotlight with Madonna. Ironically, it had been Madonna who flashed through my mind when I met her, the same fierce talent, superhuman drive, and wicked pleasure in making everything she uttered sound like an act of provocation.
Some time later, I learned just how provocative Gaga can be. Watching her perform at an amFAR benefit one night, it struck me that she'd be spectacular at the Costume Institute Gala for the 'American Woman' exhibition I was co-hosting with Oprah Winfrey. Spectacular, that is, as long as she didn't repeat the string of expletives that preceded her song. We spoke on the phone and I mentioned to her that she would need to pull back a bit when performing at the Met. I should have known better. While on stage at the dinner, she brought up my request - then let rip with the kind of language you don't usually associate with someone educated at Convent school, even one in New York City.
But I am a huge fan. And if you've yet to be swayed, it is all too likely you will bend after reading Jonathan Van Meter's engrossing profile, from which she emerges as a passionate and intelligent woman, serious about her craft while simultaneously learning to adjust to life in the fast lane of fame. Of course, while we applaud her substance (laudably using her celebrity status to fight for the causes she believes in, including her criticism of Don't Ask Don't Tell), it's her boundary-pushing approach to dressing, with a dash of English-infected eccentricity, that's equally appealing. Extreme, to be sure, but perhaps we can all learn something from her daring as we choose what to buy this spring...
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Such a stan. 
Outtake from the shoot:
That's all. 
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