From the Green Room: The VMAs
Monday, September 13, 2010 
You can always count on the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony to be good for some outrageous formal wear.
The Academy Awards, notwithstanding Cher’s black, sequined Mayan princess outfit and Bjork’s swan dress aside, pale in comparison in terms of the crazy couture on display at the annual event. Since the very first VMAs in the 80’s, we’ve seen everything from Britney Spears’ leather B&D Nazi uniform and Lil’ Kim’s Half In / Half Out, One Pasty-Clad-Breast Revealed Jumpsuit to Flava Flav in pajamas, oversized Mickey Mouse slippers, and Batman sunglasses. Each year, the bar is raised exponentially, so it must be increasingly difficult for artists to make a splash. Even so, you’d have to admit…Lady GaGa was just a little over the top accepting her award for Video of the Year clad in a suit made entirely of meat.
who's a bigger freak show?But the competition to be noticed was particularly high in a year where Nicky Minaj, in a shiny pink vinyl spacesuit, did a duet with Will. I. Am., resplendent in a superhero action figure outfit and a plastic hair helmet. You have to REALLY take a brave fashion leap if you’re going to outdo Ke$ha in a dress made out of a Hefty CinchSak trash bag. Lady G began the evening in a billowy gown with a feather headdress that resembled Chicken Little in a Perdue commercial. For her next acceptance, she rocked a black metal spiked Mohawk. But when she took the stage accepting the Video of the Year award from Cher, (who was wearing the costume from her “Turn Back Time” video that made her look like her own female impersonator), Gaga looked as if she was a chart on the wall of a butcher shop illustrating where various cuts of beef are located on the cow.
Perhaps it was just homage to Mudvayne’s white tuxedo jacket with bloody gaping head wound makeup that inspired this vegan’s fashion nightmare. Apparently unsatisfied to appearing as if she were wearing a cart of steaks at Morton’s, Gaga added a boneless Rib Steak had, presumably for “effect.”
And Lord know we were all hoping there’d be a “related story” this morning, where a drug-sniffing security dog at the after party attacked GaGa and ate most of her chemise.
Good dog.
