Lady Gaga is wearing a meat mini on the cover of Vogue Homme Japan:
I have a feeling that this magazine cover will inspire “Is Lady Gaga a feminist icon?” debates in Women’s Studies classes all across the country (Madonna of the 1980’s redux). I personally find those sorts of debates a bit uninteresting and unhelpful. Be your own feminist icon.
Maybe her next cover will have a vegetarian option? Falafel pasties? Animal rights folks, chime in.
-Bridget Crawford
This is actually a reference to artist Jana Sterbak’s late 1980s work “Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic”:
http://www.walkerart.org/walker_images/images/01/wac_906g.jpg
What about Ann Simonton: “her trademark act is dressing up as a piece of meat, to dramatize the subhuman image that is often projected upon women in advertising and entertainment”. You can view an image of her dressed in meat here:
http://www.gradethenews.org/pages2/simonton_printversion.htm