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Fifteen years ago, while it’s ready to hit in 2010. Year Vmasi Red Carpet 12. September 2010, Lady Gaga had a backup plan for her meat dress. If the appearance is adjusted to the tailor, if the meat was broken or washed too much blood, and the superstar had something else ready for the rack. But Franz Fernandez, a designer dresses, which is on the screen in MGM in Las Vegas, worked three long days to create it, draping the butcher cutting at Mannekuin Torso. “Obviously, I didn’t want that backup was going on,” he says Bilbord.

Meat dress, one of three gags carried for 2010, did not launch its career: “Poker Face” was overturned by Bilbord Hot 100 Previous Years and Won Top 5 Hits “Bad Romance” and “Bad Romance”. But fashion The statement, which Gaga said that the protest against the army “Do not ask, not speaking” politics at the time, helped it turn into a cultural icon and established Fernandez’s career in the process. He has since worked with Rihanna, Beyonce and others, and Villiam Morris presented.

Then, although it was part of the creative team of the creative team known as Haus from Gage, Fernandez struggled to build a reputation and make enough money to support creative career. After Gaga carried a dress, his life changed. “Like most people who are in a creative area and have parents of immigrants, there is constant”, you should get a real job, “that they are probably right, because it is not fruitful”. “But the public scale that just gave me:” Okay, you run towards something, and you have some of it, and keep going. “”

To mark the meat cover – 12. September – Bilbord He reached Fernandez in Los Angeles.

How did you come to the project of the meat dress? Was there short or white paper?

It started with Nicol (Formichetti, then Gaga’s stylist) saying: “We want to make meat bag for red carpet. “Somewhere is on the way, we were like:” Let’s not make a full-formed idea, “I was like” I didn’t know that this thing was fully formed. “I think it’s normal when you see it’s a lot of meat on your forehead.

I read you bought meat from a family butcher.

There is an Argentine trade and a butcher store in the valley that is now called Mercado Buenos Aires. I just went to him. Well, that was my family too. I called my family and I was like, “Hey, I need to do this thing without meat,” and they should use this cut, “and the butcher would leave,” yes, you should definitely use this cut. “Everyone knew I was doing some strange job at the time, so I think there wasn’t much pressure.

How much meat did you finish using?

About 60 pounds. It was a good amount on her body. I mean, she’s small, so I’m sure it was a lot.

Are you a meat eiter? Is anything about this counter with your values?

I’m Argentine. If anything, this are My values. All we do is eat red meat. It was definitely not a problem.

How challenging was the meat for work?

I let the flesh dictate what I could do. We sat on him on a corset with carpet threads, so it was really thick, strong thread and followed the strike of meat to ensure that it was anything. I didn’t fight meat.

How much time did you have?

Probably three days, one day was spending food grocery. I didn’t have room to do it. I stayed in a friend (Australian Singer-Songvriter) I Sparro’s basement in the silver Lake. It was like: “If you want to make this here, you can reinforce A / C and work.” So I worked from his living room. He was really nice to let me do and clean it his refrigerator and had half the model in it.

Manequen you gained meat on?

It was more like a shape of bust, the actual pattern of dress.

So you opened the refrigerator and put the meat on the model torso?

No, we didn’t build in the refrigerator. We built it outside. It is obvious that you took pauses or if the meat was out, you didn’t want it too long. One hour at, hour, etc. It was pretty awful.

How worried are you to break me down?

Strange, I didn’t worry about spoiling. She worried me more that the color lost her livin ‘, because the meat was so bright and red and beautiful when the refrigerator and fresh. The butcher told me that I spray him with some salty water here and keep his redness and it worked. Also, the type of meat is called Matambre (a thin cut beef), and it is more (of) a fat cut of bloody cutting. We were less worried about what was fitting.

When you realized, “We’re done, this is perfect”?

When I saw her on the camera, on the monitors, we were in Backsterage in the WMA-and – after being sewn in it and shoes were included. I’ve been a little brightened with him in the elevator on the way to get in my place.

What other logistical problems have you worried while you built to the end?

I just remember that happened so quickly. More than anything, it was like, “I hope she likes it, I hope he’s wearing it.”

I read that there was a taxidermine process to maintain meat.

After wearing a dress, I went to pick him up the next day and put it in a garbage bag and made it. He was frozen in the freezer of my parents for several months, along with shoes and until we decide what to do with it. And this idea appeared on the taxifian. I returned him back to my friend’s house and at the time he used it a little. It was somehow rough, but we put the masks and stopped him in my place.

How important was it that it created that Lady Gaga Career and Culture?

I have Google Alerts on My Name. There will always be an article about the 20 most widest dresses of all time – Bjork in its Swan dress or J.Lo in Versace dress – fashion moments who are shocking in the end. They are for a moment on time.

Gaga addressed it, but did you get an indignation of anti-meat activists?

Yes. I am for anyone who has any diet they want, but there are extreme animal activists who are aggressive. I definitely got interesting email at the time, I had to hand over the detective to make sure it was documented. Since I noticed indignation, I made two Facebook groups, a group of pro meat and a group against meat and don’t know I’m both. There was another Facebook group, this time a lot later, about how meat went from dead babies or something – it was the strangest, the strangest thing. At that time, I saw a letter K (for canon) on things, and I really didn’t know what it was.

The refrigerator in your friend’s house where you saved the meat dress during the working in progress – it seems historical. Is that fridge still in that house?

(Laughter.) Well, he moved out. It was the attic in the center of La La La Ljubi, probably still have that refrigerator. I was supposed to ask. It would be a fun piece. I guess.