Chinese Designer Weighs Down Lady Gaga
New York Times fashion writer Cathy Horyn shares a fascinating look at 43-year-old Chinese fashion designer Guo Pei, whose meteoric rise over the past decade and a half has paralleled her native country’s consumerist revolution.
While most fashionistas (and butchers) would die at the thought of Lady Gaga wearing one of their creations, Pei apparently could have cared less. In the middle of Horyn’s article is this titillating L.A. tidbit:
Not long after a November China show, Nicola Formichetti, an editor who helps style Lady Gaga, contacted Pei to borrow some clothes… There is nothing dainty about a 40-pound crystal beaded dress, as Lady Gaga discovered when four or five dresses (and the platform shoes) arrived in Los Angeles, ‘‘all beautifully packaged in silver boxes,’’ Formichetti recalled.
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