Lady Gaga Called Anna Wintour "Bitch" In A Text

Last night, the Council of Fashion Designers of America held its annual awards show, a night where celebrities applaud designers and models are treated like celebrities and Lady Gaga wears even more uncomfortable shoes than usual. Gaga arrived late to the red carpet, where her sister Natali Germanotta walked alongside her. Gaga wore a blue wig and a Mugler dress with an enormous train, which she later removed to accept her award. Anderson Cooper hosted the show — and treated the crowd to photos of his child modeling days — before running off, as Diane von Furstenberg put it, “to deal with a Weiner.” Gaga was dubbed a Fashion Icon, Kanye West reminded us how much he loves Phoebe Philo, and Grace Coddington presented legendary photographer Arthur Elgort with a special tribute award.
Elgort said in an interview that he doesn’t know Terry Richardson‘s work. “I know the name but I don’t know his style. I know the name because he had a father that was a photographer. In fact, his father was…very good. I couldn’t tell you what Terry Richardson has done, but maybe he is very cool, I don’t know.” [Style.com]
Some people don’t think Lady Gaga deserved the CFDA’s Fashion Icon award because she hasn’t been around long enough to be an “icon.” Friends, file this under pageview-trolling 101. [Forbes]
Robin Givhan points out that before receiving her award, Lady Gaga “sat politely in the audience for what must have been a full hour” while wearing a bustier with a studded thong. [TDB]
Gaga used her speech to talk about her pet rat, and share an anecdote about texting with Anna Wintour. The Vogue editor texted her to give her the news of her win, see, but the Lady thought it was a different Anna, an Anna who works with her stylist, Nicola Formichetti, and so Gaga texted back, “Yes, bitch, we did it!” Anna Wintour replied, “How lovely, and we will all be waiting to see what you will wear.” [YouTube]
Prabal Gurung took home the Swarovski award for women’s wear — he mentioned in his acceptance speech that his parents in Nepal seemed more excited for him to get a picture with Gaga than anything else. (Gurung also thanked the U.S. government, because his unemployment insurance helped him when he was just starting out.) Robert Geller won the Swarovski for men’s wear, and Eddie Borgo for accessories. Men’s wear designer of the year was Michael Bastian. Iris Apfel presented Alexander Wang with the prize for accessories designer of the year. Women’s wear designer of the year went to Proenza Schouler. [The Cut]
As of Sunday afternoon, Lifetime Achievement award-winner Marc Jacobs was taking in a polo match. He had not written his speech. “I’ve been struggling with writing it, to be honest. I’m not a good writer at all. Anytime anyone’s ever asked me to write something, what I do is, I write notes and thoughts, and they build up and over a week I kind of edit through those thoughts. And then I try to put them in some order and then I reread it. Then I run it by somebody. Then I rewrite it. So it’s kind of a process that has to happen over a course of days, and I think when the pressure is there, that’s when it’ll come. So tonight and tomorrow I’ll get it together.” [The Cut]
Of the nineteen nominees for this year’s CFDAs, only two were designed by women: Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen’s The Row, and accessories designer Pamela Love. Neither won. (Special awards were given to Philo, who nabbed the International Designer of the Year award, and Gaga.) This isn’t unusual: in 2010 and 2009, there were also only two women nominees, and in 2007, there was just one. While CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg and executive director Steven Kolb wouldn’t comment, the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Valerie Steele suggests “The new young cool male designer might just be considered more marketable at the moment. I don’t think it’s conscious.” The biggest issue, however, seems to be venture capital. FIT’s student body is 85% female; the New School’s, which includes Parsons, is 71%. But women don’t get anything like equal access to venture capital. In 2009, less than 10% of all capital funding went to women entrepreneurs. [Thread NY]