Lady Gaga Causes Mayhem in Vintage McQueen-Era Givenchy Couture

Reported by Vogue.

Lady Gaga does not walk a carpet — she commandeers one. At the Los Angeles premiere of Mayhem Requiem, a filmed record of her phones-banned concert at the Wiltern, Gaga arrived at The Grove in a piece of fashion history: a gown from Alexander McQueen's fall 1997 couture collection for Givenchy, titled "Eclect Dissect." The choice was deliberate and deeply personal — a tribute to her late friend rendered in red and black silk satin.

The dress itself reads like a fever dream of Spanish pageantry. Cut in the spirit of the matador's traditional traje de luces, it featured open lace-trimmed sleeves, rhinestone-encrusted mock neck, tasseled epaulettes, and a flared skirt layered in black lace over red silk. Gaga amplified the drama further — because of course she did — with a netted veil, a black lace fan, and a retinue of white-clad dancers carrying roses. Subtlety was never the assignment.

McQueen's Givenchy Era Has a Grip on Hollywood

According to Vogue, Gaga is in distinguished company. The fall 1997 collection has become a quiet obsession among the fashion-literate: Kaia Gerber wore a McQueen-for-Givenchy piece inspired by Audrey Hepburn's My Fair Lady costuming to the 2024 Academy Museum Gala, and Cynthia Erivo chose a silver woven raffia gown with fringed collar and wide sleeves to the 2025 SAG Awards. Three different women, three wildly different silhouettes — all from the same singular collection.

What made that collection so enduring? McQueen explained it himself in a 2002 Numéro interview: the concept was "a mad scientist who cut all these women up and mixed them all back together," drawing on Japanese, Scottish, and Spanish cultural references simultaneously. The result was clothing that felt like mythology — constructed, theatrical, and impossible to ignore. It's exactly the kind of vision that ages into legacy rather than nostalgia.

Gaga's tribute was never just about the dress; it was about honoring a creative kinship through the only language both of them ever truly spoke — spectacle as sincerity.

Read the original at Vogue.