Favorite Gaga Creative Partner … ?

[gagzus 24,393]

I do wanna say the Haus of Gaga hasn’t been a proper thing since 2011. It’s just a collective/company name now. They also weren’t technically collaborators other than DaDa because they basically got told what her ideas were and they had to bring them to life. Like Warhol’s factory.

Also the Haus weren’t people like BoomKack or Nicopanda, the Haus were people like DaDa, Kamikaze and Dark and Lagerfeld — basically people she had been working with for years before The Fame. 

And since DaDa’s contributions to original ideas were pretty spare I’m gonna say, Parris is her best. Because she seems to collaborate and not just do what Gaga tells her with some tweaks.

Edited 1 hour ago by gagzus

[bxr 2,585]

1 hour ago, gagzus said:

I do wanna say the Haus of Gaga hasn’t been a proper thing since 2011. It’s just a collective/company name now. They also weren’t technically collaborators other than DaDa because they basically got told what her ideas were and they had to bring them to life. Like Warhol’s factory.

Also the Haus weren’t people like BoomKack or Nicopanda, the Haus were people like DaDa, Kamikaze and Dark and Lagerfeld — basically people she had been working with for years before The Fame. 

And since DaDa’s contributions to original ideas were pretty spare I’m gonna say, Parris is her best. Because she seems to collaborate and not just do what Gaga tells her with some tweaks.

I see your point, and appreciate your due diligence (as always!) 

That said, I yield to the creative credits of “Haus of Gaga” on the, to your point, pre-2011 works … and that videos like MTN (?), The Fame: Pt. 1, etc. were attributed to the “Haus” within a capacity … I also yield to an original quote that echoes a more generalized vantage of the “Haus” including NASA engineers, etc.

Spoiler

“It’s my creative team and it was really organic. I was a bit frustrated at the beginning, being so new to the business and going forward with a major label. I called all my coolest art friends and we sat in a room and I said that I wanted to make my face light up. Or that I wanted to make my cane light up. Or that I wanted to make a pair of dope sunglasses. Or that I want to make video glasses, or whatever it was that I wanted to do. It’s a whole amazing creative process that’s completely separate from the label.”

Though The Haus was deeply influenced by Warhol‘s Factory, I would say HoG was fundamentally much less exploitative in its formative model, and material consequence … 

I haven‘t gone back on a deep dive with regard to the Haus history, but when/if I get the time, I’ll pull some references/resources that grant attribution to Laurieann and Nicola as members of the pre-2011 Haus … if they exist in the interwebs

Of course, now the Haus is a corporate entity and/or LLC, but pre-2011 it was a primarily off-label creative collective that did broadly include members across her creative planes … including fashion, choreography, creative direction, photography, technology (TechHaus pre-cursor), etc.) … I think to limit the membership of the early Haus with that stark rigidity, and negation of its somewhat inherent ambiguity, is to lean toward an erasure of the grassroots approach the Haus intended to develop as a model for entertainment and music-based creatives within an industry that paralyzed that very intention by contractual limitation—but again, I’m new here, a novice still learning!

Again, not having researched the history of the Haus in over a decade, this is broadly referencing references from the past (also The Fame Monster Super Deluxe edition which illustrates the collective more immediately, but/and along the margins of contextual formality) … 

That said … maybe one day she‘ll curate an oral narrative and/or personal history of the Haus to formalize any assumptions from audience members who are simply gleaning from outside the Haus, regardless of how much we may think we know by proxy

The thread is honestly just for the fun of creative curiosity … with your interests you should pitch a project to the Haus (or whichever entity handles creative projects) that formalizes the deep dives you publish on the forum—like, a proper monster‘s history of the haus (and management!) or something to that effect

Thanks again as always for the insights!

 

ETA: Appreciate the technical collaboration point, but/and to that aspect, the thread was more generally phrased to open the space to less technically compartmentalized creative “partnerships” … just people she worked with in creative capacities, regardless of title or technical nomination in that way—if any of this makes any sense!

TL;DR: But/and/so, because I haven‘t researched in a stretch of a minute, and the “[OG]” Haus is a subjective entity, I take complete fault/blame for any misattribution in the poll / thread

Edited 7 minutes ago by bxr

[TAIPEI 3,383]

definitely NICOLA FORMICHETTI

then nick knight/SHOWstudio and steven klein

Edited 14 minutes ago by TAIPEI