Everyone held their breath this week in anticipation of what Lady Gaga would wear when meeting the Queen after the Royal Variety Performance (December 7th). There are not many people who dare to dress as outrageously as the pop princess, but now it has been suggested that she is as powerful in the designer clothing world as editor of US Vogue Anna Wintour.

Alisa Gould-Simon, writing for BlackBook, suggested that her role in the fashion world "could very well prove more potent than anything executives at Conde Nast have drummed up".

She continued to say: "The rate at which she’s educating consumers on avant-garde fashion … is like nothing the fashion industry has seen before."

Alisa cited figures from YouTube, which revealed that more than 30 million people had seen Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance music video in the matter of a few weeks - decidedly more than the number of people who pick up Vogue magazine each month.

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3 threads and no source links? come on now.

Oh PLEASE! She wishes.

Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.

It would probably be fair to say that a majority of those 30 million views can not be attributed to people who wanted to study Gaga's style. Vogue has an established identity as a fashion magazine, and it is generally inferred that most people who read Vogue are looking to get some sort of perspective on current fashion. Gaga has done a lot of expose and educate the general public about avant garde fashion, but it's a fallacy to take her millions of youtube views and infer that they somehow mean she is more influential to fashion than Vogue. People would watch a Lady Gaga video for any number of reasons, and I don't think her unique style has translated into something the general public wants to emulate, the same way that the clothing that is typically featured in Vogue has.

Ugh! No... just because she dresses weird doesn't make her the greatest fashion icon ever.....

Chile... there are so many other people that dress weird! JUST NO!

maybe the title should have said "educational" rather than inspirational

GaGa is a haute couture goddess... she understands fashion more than anybody out there. Deal with it.

Fashion icon.

People watched her celebrate her love for Alexander McQueen?


I do consider her a fashion icon. I know people (and myself) won't be emulating, but she puts their name out there.

hmmm i dun thik some of her outfits are "fashion" at all.

Describe "fashion" kid.

Most of her outfits aren't even designed by her.

^And?
She doesn't have to design her outfits to understand fashion, that's ridiculous.

Anna Wintour doesn't make her own clothing either...

I wouldn't call what she does "fashion." Fashion requires a discerning eye and instinct, not just throwing a bunch of incoherent ideas against a wall and passing it off as something bold.

^^Fashion it's beyond that i think...

For me it has more to do with expressing yourself without limits, pushing the envelope... not just "look good" or "decent". Fashion reflects an idea, a feeling...

^ and art.