why did lady gaga wear the meat dress STORY OF: Gaga's The metaphor of “the meat

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Kevin Mazur / WireImage 24 / 45 Back in 1995, Australian costume designer Lizzy Gardiner unforgettably donned this dress comprised of 254 expired American Express credit cards to pick up an Oscar for best costume design for her work on "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." The dress was originally conceived as a costume for the film: "I'm broke, and I didn't have anything to wear

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Francesca Granata, associate professor of Fashion Studies at the Parsons School of Design, and author of Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body, says the combination of raw meat on bare skin was what was most shocking to people