the NY Times is bashing gaga because they say her dress is a rip off
of a Hussein Chalayan (designer) dress. I've seen this dress and yes
Gaga's is exactly like it. My dress was inspired by an Abbott and
Costello movie, Abbott and Costello go to Mars. I'll explain. You'll
notice that my dress is an actual dress and Gaga's and Chalayan's are
bubbles over a leotard. Mine also has an X over the right breast with
dots of blood...and a hoop over the right shoulder.....a reference to
Amazon warriors who cut off their right breast so they could shoot
arrows better.. In the Abbott and Costello movie (a favourite of mine
when I was a child).....Abbott and Costello try to go to Mars but end
up on Venus where it is inhabited by Amazon women. They have a truth
machine (a lie detector) there where they make men hold a bubble and
if the man is lying (when asked a question) the bubble bursts. THIS
was the inspiration for my dress. I actually said something about
this, on stage, when I started wearing the dress.
Having said this, I think it is perfectly fine for artists (who
aren't clothes designers) to take ideas from clothing
designers.....and re-work them. That's what art and culture is
about.....AND clothing designers are putting their designs "out
there" to influence how people dress. BUT, I do not think it's ok for
well known artists to copy lesser known artists in their own field. I
know there is a vampire tradition in RnR. But, it's sickening.....and
usually leaves the lesser known to have nothing but a heroin problem.
If the internet is here for the whole world to know
INFORMATION.....fine, let the vampirism live on.....but, just let it
be known where they are getting their food.
P.S.
I know, I know.....it's JUST a dress. But, it's not, you see. I spend
a lot of time (and what little money I have) making music AND my
outfits. It's part of who I am.....my identity.....my creativity.
When someone comes along, and is more known, and claims it as HER
identity.....even for the moment......it's gutting. She has the money
and team behind her to consume and consume...and shout it from the
mountaintops. I obviously don't. And NOW, who am I? If I continue in
the same vein I have been (for quite some time) will people say I am
copying HER and dismiss me? See, it's much more than a dress. And by
the way, I don't think it's HER who is copying.....I think it's
stylists searching the internet for ideas.....I've encountered this
before.
The above statement was from Kristeen, not me. Just to be clear :)
I had no idea about the Abbott and Costello inspiration. I think that is so funny, I remember watching this movie a long time ago and loved it. I miss movies that had the fast tempo humor, quips that you had to pay attention to get. Kind of like the Marx brothers movies... if you didn't pay attention you'd miss some quirky wordplay.
That's really interesting to hear about her inspiration for the dress.
Too cool---I used to watch that film (and others in the series) when I was a kid----they'd play them every Sunday morning on (at the time) channel 11 in NY (WPIX).
Is that statement from KY posted anywhere else or did she write directly to you, kykeeper? Thanks anyway, I always wondered what she thought of this. I'm in the minority in that I've never heard a single note of Lady GaGa's music but I love KY to death. I hope more people realize that Kristeen did it first (and better!)
hey loadof27:
I think access to internet/up-to-date bulletin posting and responding is vastly limited while touring the states in back to back shows and I was lucky and fortunate enough to receive it. I got the permish and then re-posted the hell out of it.
On the surface, one could think that one would associate KY with music as the
principle means or mode of expression. Yet, after reading this, can one assume
safely that the visual takes on an equally important role?
A marriage of the Apollonian and Dionysian concepts that that F. N. guy put forth
is manifesting itself? "German" blood or modern conduit?
I wonder though if the dress(or rather Kristeen) represents a celestial body around
which all the poor bubbles burst by the lies of men now find solace; a sort of bubble heaven.
Or is the dress more of a "soft armour" protecting the wearer from manly verbal
deception?
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