Lady Gaga is certainly one of the world's biggest fashion risk takers—from meat dresses to 18-inch heels to wearing a bird's nest on her head. But Wednesday, at the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, the singer took fashion to a new fiscal extreme when she wore a hat valued at $1 million during her performance.
During the recent promotion and Bud Light Dive Bar Tour for her latest album Joanne, Gaga's been sporting a custom pink wide-brim hat by Gladys Tamez Millinery to every event, including on the album's cover. For Gaga's Victoria's Secret performance, however, the milliner upped the ante, creating a special black version of the hat embellished with 45,700 Swarovski crystals dubbed the "Million Dollar" hat. The name both alludes to its monetary worth (damn, crystals are expensive!) and nods to Gaga's latest single off of Joanne, "Million Reasons."
Leave it to Lady Gaga to never make a statement subtly, and to push the limits of fashion at any chance she gets. While this extravagant hat doesn't quite align with the down-to-Earth Gaga we've seen lately, we're kind of loving the glimmer of The Fame Monster Gaga who we first fell in love with. The necessary next step: a hat made out of meat, duh!
