The Queen of Pop, Lady Gaga will be having Christmas candy and cookies on offer as part of her Gaga Workshop at Barney’s.
In a collaboration between herself, her clothing designer friend Nicola Formichetti and installation artists Eli Sudbrack and Christophe Hamaide Pierson of Assume Vivid Astro Focus, and Barneys creative director Dennis Freedman.
It is believed that even Lady Gaga’s mother has given her invaluable input into the edibles aspect of the Gaga Workshop collection. Nicola Formichetti told fashion mag WWD that Mrs Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s mother, knew about her daughter’s favorite childhood candy and chocolates or about what sort of children’s books she loved as a child.
Formichetti explained that they wanted the Gaga Workshop experience to be like going through her childhood memories, in a “very surreal way.”
Word has it that the entire fifth floor of the Barney’s on Madison Avenue will be turned into Gaga’s Workshop, housing eight different stations including a giant wig that will house fake nails and other beauty items, a Gaga-faced spider holding jewelry, a giant pop-up book for the book collection and the piece de resistance – the Gaga Candy Shop with all of Gaga’s favorite childhood treats including malted milk balls, gumballs and candy lipsticks.
More grownup Gaga Candy offerings will include chocolate “poker face” chips, “disco stick” lollipops, chocolate skulls as well as the $15 Lady Gaga Cookie with Lady Gaga wearing a turquoise blue hat.
And you just have to have the silver lamé Lady Gaga Monster Claw Christmas Stocking (edged with creepy, shaggy black monster hair instead of the traditional white fur) priced at $65 to hold all that candy in.
Tricked out just like a funky pop music version of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Gaga’s Workshop at Barneys will beckon and welcome shoppers with a huge neon Gaga Monster gracing the front entrance to the store.
Word has it that at 25% of all proceeds from Gaga Workshop sales at Barney’s will be donated to Gaga’s newly-formed Born This Way Foundation, which “aims to empower youth and promote equality through programs on anti-bullying, self-confidence, mentoring and career development.”
Gaga’s Workshop will officially open at 11:59 p.m. on November 21 and will be open through January 2. Oh, one more thing, if you can’t make it in person to the New York Barney’s, you can experience its uniqueness online on the Gaga’s Workshop microsite, which is already up and running!
Take a look at the Gaga Workshop in my slideshow for some of the items on offer to tide you over till the “12 Days of Gaga” arrive…
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