The many ‘looks’ of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball

Lady Gaga is going on another tour, because I’m pretty sure she’s part shark and if she ever stops moving she’ll die. I understand biology super well, I know.

Anyway, the good folks over at Fashionista have gotten their hands on some of the new costume designs, and they’re all quite nice, save for one major caveat: Lady Gaga has stopped being a human being and has now become an idea, an insurmountable one that the real, corporal Gaga could never really live up to ironically.

So here are the looks, which I’ve helpfully paired up with the pop culture cornerstone that she . . . *ahem* borrowed them from.

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