On meeting Gaga: We just met through mutual friends, and she needed some clothing made for an artist showcase, and I worked for Kanye and made clothes. I basically just did everything that I was learning under Kanye for her and that’s how I became her art director, creative director for those years. What it was like working for her: It’s really been so long at this point since we worked together. I don’t really remember much of it. We were really just friends and we worked together. I kind of brought the relationships that I knew in my life and in working in fashion to her hers. Nicola and I were friends 'cause I assisted him on Heidi Slimane shoots and I asked him to help us and be her stylist, or else I'd still be making the clothes. The rest is history. But yeah, Nicola was the conduit to really making her attached to the great photographers, great directors, having the right clothes for the magazines. Once he got on board, I was there day-to-day but I was still really learning a lot from him and we working on everything together.

On Gaga's impact on fashion and music: It’s one of those things, it’s just the perfect storm. She had the most amazing team around her, she had at that time: Willow, myself, Nicola, Troy her manager, Laureiann her choreographer. It was just really insane, down to the lighting and stage design, this guy Winky. She just had the best team possible and the music. It was almost not fair, it was like the NBA All-Star team. Slowly everybody decided to do their own other things. But she was making great music at that time, and through Nicola she was working with the best image makers in the world. At that time, Hedi was designing and we got Hedi to do that album cover, and that was like really huge and respected and the same thing with Nick -- we got him to do all of the show visuals. And if you start there, like with Nick and Hedi, then you have the gates open to you. So. It’s really unexplainable, it’s just the perfect storm, she had the best of everything; best moment, the best music. I’m not gonna be ignorant in any way and say that can be recreated for everybody. It's just one of those unexplainable things, y'know?

Source: http://www.propagaga.com/2014/02/04/...perfect-storm/

So she had the best team ever and fired everyone?

I don't blame her for getting rid of all these people who were prob getting way too much of her $$ in percentages. Now we will see Gaga ha true artistry, that is when act II begins.

The denial.

Where does it say that she fired them?

a perfect storm

katy's impact

I miss it tbh, I think I would still be stanning if she stuck with all of them

So you wanna play with magic

You're not going to say you got fired because that word looks bad when you're trying to find work elsewhere. She DID fire Laurieann after all.

I still don't get what any of them did to her for them to be fired

Pretty sure Laurieann said that the Gaga's work got too dark for her, not that she was fired. And didn't her past creative director just say that members of her team decided to do their own things?

But, okay! Fired it is!

Matthew left, he wasnt fired. Rumors say its because she left him and went back to Luc and he couldnt handle it, also he had just had a baby. Laurieann stepped down (you could say she was fired but we don't really know) after her & gaga got into it about her fans and the drama with her using gaga's name to become more powerful. Nicola left because he was doing his own thing with Mugler (you know, before they fired him) and as he said dressing gaga was "exhausting".

so all of her main team just kind of left her. it's a shame though, because when she had them she was pretty much an unstoppable force.

get dat promo Dark Horse

I agree though. Everything about TFM was flawless. As her team gradually left, so did the quality of her work. I hope things pick up with her new team now that management issues are supposedly cleared.

Makes me a little sad to think about the old times.


Oh well, the memories will live on forever

Basically. TFM Gaga's team was the modern dream team of pop music and potentially won't be matched for a long time.

Good thing he got out.

It was just an hook for discussion. She did not fire Laurieann but she didn't renew her contract or something.

I miss her working with some of these people, but now that she's solo we will get to see her ideas shine or flop.