


“So you’ll be the 120th person out of 150 to see the Artpop, which is what we aspire to be,” she adds. After telling us that she designed the cakes too, she reaches out and flips over the album photo, showing us that it is also an invitation to an “artRave” on November 10 exhibiting Haus of Gaga’s projects and collaborations with Inez and Vinoodh, Robert Wilson, Marina Abramović, and Jeff Koons, and that it was personally signed by Lady Gaga and numbered. “Nice to meet you,” she says, giving us a solid handshake. Not from her, but from her pint-sized buddy, Charles. Surrounded by edgy still-life floral paintings, also by Inez and Vinoodh, Gaga takes her seat at the center of a long banquette between restaurateur and fellow co-host Michael Chow and Inez, who bares a striking physical resemblance to Gaga minus the disco-ball couture.Īfter a family-style dinner, during which Gaga occasionally stands up to check on her makeup artist and her other Haus of Gaga friends, whom she jokes are sitting at the “kids’ table,” she rings the side of her red-wine glass for a speech. Gaga mingles, as best as her stilt shoes allow, among the 80 or so guests, trailed the whole time by the blonde coiffure caboose, her single security detail, and a small boy in a black suit-whom, it turns out, is Charles, the son of the Dutch fashion-photographer duo being honored that night.Īfter circulating the gallery-which showcases Inez and Vinoodh’s striking portraits of Natalie Portman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Drew Barrymore, Mickey Rourke, herself, and many distinguished others-Gaga leads the crowd into an adjacent garden-themed gallery for dinner. She looks like a space-age go-go dancer, with a cascade of blonde hair teased out like the Bride of Frankenstein’s. During cocktail hour, Gaga toddles into the gallery in eight-inch silver platform heels and a matching McQueen mini-dress. If you haven’t yet had the chance to attend a party co-hosted by Lady Gaga, allow us to set the scene for you after last night’s Inez and Vinoodh photography exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills.
