Pop star credits Andy Warhol for her inspiration

Andy Warhol is the grandfather of Pop Art, and he’s lent his genius to become the influence for a new breed of art, the Pop Star. US based LADY GaGa (real name Stefani Joanne Germanotta) is in the UK at the moment to support supergroup the Pussycat Dolls.

LADY GaGa is known for her outrageous outfits, and has already attracted a lot of media attention in London for her outfits.

LADY GaGa credits the Pop Art icon Andy Warhol for her style in clothing, in a case of life imitating art.

I’ve got to try to keep my figure down. I have these amazing fashion outfits, but they’re very intricate or graphic, and pretty uncomfortable sometimes, depending on what trainwreck of an idea I’ve got in my head.

I need people to have a memory of what it feels like to hear me on the radio, to know what my videos look like. They’re acquainted with my fashion, then they go to the show and it all comes together.

She explained that she intends her costumes to be seen as living pieces of art in the same vain as Andy Warhol’s art, who was better known for his canvas prints and artwork.

I’m empowered by fashion, and my work. What I do is performance art. It’s pop music meant for the Louvre.

I write about sequins, parties and fame and how I wish modern America was more like the Andy Warhol era.

If you say something long enough, people will listen. Warhol kept telling people, ‘This is art, this is art, this is art’ and eventually they said, ‘Andy Warhol is brilliant, he is the future of art’.