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In a recent interview with Fashionista, Brandon Maxwell, Lady Gaga’s stylist, talked about the singers new elegant style and different fashion looks. Read below!

Lady Gaga has been dressing much more elegantly recently. How and why did that come about?

She’s pretty in charge of everything she does. I’ve worked with a lot of other people and she definitely is one of those people who, from writing the music down to deciding what she wears during the day, everything is her vision. She had a jazz album out this year and obviously that informed a lot of the aesthetic, and you get older and you evolve and things change and your style changes, just like any person does as you get older. With the album coming out and her singing jazz, it just made more sense to do looks that were in line with the icons of the past, the great jazz legends, and do that in her own way. She’s very, very naturally beautiful and very regal, so it felt really natural for me to dress her like that.

How many times does she typically change per day?

It just depends on the day. What I love working about her the most — you rarely get to do this with a person — is that in the morning she can have brown hair and be a bit more punk, midday maybe she’s blonde hair and more regal and maybe at midnight she’s got dreadlocks and she’s doing something else. If she’s doing events and changing for each one, I think we always like to change, even if she’s doing television interviews so that every outlet has a special experience [just] for them.

So are you just constantly pulling clothing? How many potential looks do you have prepared at any time?

It depends. For a normal day for her to be at home and going around town, it’s probably a rack or two of clothes at her house. But if we’re doing an editorial, it can be 20, 30, 40 racks. And tables of shoes and tables of jewelry. It’s a lot. I have an amazing team that deals with all of that. We always take time a couple days before an event to style things out in the office and pick out our favorite things. Just like anything, when it comes to doing a shoot or something, I always find one thing that I’m super in love with and everything comes out of that one outfit.

Does she dress differently on her days off? Maybe more comfort-oriented or more risky?

I feel like we approach her everyday looks the same way we would approach an editorial. We take it just as seriously, and try to get as much stuff for that. With her, of course, you don’t really have to think about comfort. That’s not really the first thing that comes to her mind but there are always new things coming out, always new collections, always young kids making amazing things. Anytime you get the opportunity to have those into the office, we really want to. It’s a great platform to have with her. She lives in her apartment in New York and she has to walk on the street and people do see her. She wants to be able to give her fans that experience so the everyday is just as important for us.

So highlighting young designers is something you and Lady Gaga consciously try to do?

There’s so much that is out there. You look at all those young collections and they’re very daring, especially the first couple of collections — they’re not really worried like the bigger designers are. They aren’t really thinking, ‘Is this going to sell, is this too much for people?’ I love that fearlessness. Sometimes things come into the office and I think never in my wildest dreams, no matter how many d--gs I could take in my life, could I have thought this up. You can take those big risks because there’s nobody in the world who can wear almost anything like she can.

Source: http://fashionista.com/2015/03/brandon-maxwell-karlie-kloss-lady-gaga

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gagzus

At least he isn't whiny about her changing three times a day+ like Nicola was :gaycat: 

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PrinceGaga

Sounds like he's having a lot of fun with her and literally accomplishing his dream. Kudos to them both! 

At least he isn't whiny about her changing three times a day+ like Nicola was http://gagadaily.com/uploads/monthly_2015_03/gaycat.png.992b47d38f09b0ad096f1acf4618aa13.png 

​Exactly! A stylist shouldn't complain about this kind of thing especially if it's their job to do it. Working with Gaga would be such an honour as well. :gaga:  

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LaMaisonGaga

At least he isn't whiny about her changing three times a day+ like Nicola was http://gagadaily.com/uploads/monthly_2015_03/gaycat.png.992b47d38f09b0ad096f1acf4618aa13.png 

​this. Nicola kind of annoyed me.

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Haroon

It does sound exciting because there aren't limits to what Gaga will wear, so all of those crazy things you see on the runway are actually viable choices all of a sudden, there's no boundary to where it becomes "no that's too far", the sky's the limit :flutter: 

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Lady Gaga has been dressing much more elegantly recently. How and why did that come about?

She’s pretty in charge of everything she does. I’ve worked with a lot of other people and she definitely is one of those people who, from writing the music down to deciding what she wears during the day, everything is her vision. She had a jazz album out this year and obviously that informed a lot of the aesthetic, and you get older and you evolve and things change and your style changes, just like any person does as you get older. With the album coming out and her singing jazz, it just made more sense to do looks that were in line with the icons of the past, the great jazz legends, and do that in her own way. She’s very, very naturally beautiful and very regal, so it felt really natural for me to dress her like that.

 

​This answer is everything

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Haroon

I don't understand the last paragraph when she was constantly wearing Versace. :duck:

 

That's probably more because she just liked the clothes that were available to her, plus she was the face of one of Versace's lines so it made sense to wear Versace around as promotion :laughga: I don't think it means that Gaga only aims to wear smaller designers because obviously that's not true at all when she's constantly in the big brands too, I think it just means that they take pride in also showcasing new and upcoming designers and Gaga's the means of that :yes: 

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That's probably more because she just liked the clothes that were available to her, plus she was the face of one of Versace's lines so it made sense to wear Versace around as promotion :laughga: I don't think it means that Gaga only aims to wear smaller designers because obviously that's not true at all when she's constantly in the big brands too, I think it just means that they take pride in also showcasing new and upcoming designers and Gaga's the means of that :yes: 

​I only ever see the big names (Versace, McQueen, etc.) being mentioned on here which probably confused me. :gayhat:

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