It Turns Out Lady GaGa's Meat Dress Isn't the First of Its Kind (582 hits)
In turns out that Lady GaGa's outfit isn't the first dress of its kind. The first meat dress was actually an exhibit of art called the "The Flesh Dress", made in 1987, was made up of 50 pounds of stitched together raw steak.
While the dress was on exhibit, over time it would change to look like dried-out leather by the time the exhibition ended. It took about six weeks for the dress to fully decompose. The maker of the dress, Sterbak wanted to emphasize the contrast between vanity and bodily decay with the meat dress.
The artwork was exhibited in Canada had been highly debated as to whether or not it really was art. To protest the new art show exhibiting the dress, food scraps were sent to Canada's most popular museum by two hundred people. Critics say that the dress " was a waste of food and taxpayers' money. In defense, museum curators stated the dress was "a graphic reminder of mortality and the aging process.
