Lady Gaga by Araki for VOGUE HOMMES JAPAN

TOKYO DANDY
from VOGUE HOMMES JAPAN BLOG.

Lady Gaga was photographed by Lady Gaga for Volume 3 of Vogue Hommes Japan which is on sale today. Photo taken from the VOGUE HOMMES JAPAN BLOG.

This past summer, while winding down her Fame Ball world tour in Japan, Lady Gaga, a.k.a. 23-year-old -Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, gave us an exclusive look at a side of the Haus of Gaga that most fans never get to see: her life offstage, which, unsurprisingly, is just as wildly insane as her life on stage. Here, we present Gaga (with handwritten notes by the Lady herself), as she takes Tokyo and Osaka, gets inked (twice) and then prepares for an S&M scene with the legendary Japanese photographer Araki. The Gaga epidemic has clearly gone global.

'I was honored to be the first American woman he's photographed, and only the second pop artist, in the company of Björk. He signed the Polaroids 'Tokyo Love,' and the Haus got tattoos of his marking in celebration.'

What's the meaning behind her new ink? The tattoo on her inner arm is a tribute to her favorite writer. "That one commemorates my favorite writer, Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet and romantic philosopher," Gaga told the mag. "In German he writes, 'Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?' "
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