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Late British fashion guru an inspiration for Lady Gaga

By Zorianna Kit (China Daily)
Updated: 2011-04-16 09:19

LOS ANGELES - Lady Gaga says that she did not write her latest hit song, Born This Way, but rather the late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen did so when he channeled it through her from beyond the grave.

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When the singer's label decided to release the song on the exact one-year anniversary of McQueen's death, Gaga said that it confirmed her belief that the British designer was working through her.

It was not she who wrote the song, Gaga said. "He did!", she told Harper's Bazaar magazine in an interview.

McQueen, 40, and Gaga were close friends. The singer wore his iconic lobster-claw shoes in her Bad Romance music video and paid emotional tribute to him in a performance at the Brit Awards in London a week after his death.

In a fashion spread for the magazine, Gaga sports her new trademark "facial horns" - spikes on her face that appear to be protruding from beneath her skin.

The bumps, also on her shoulders, have been part of a new look ever since she debuted the Born This Way single at the Grammy Awards in February, leading to speculation that Gaga either had plastic surgery or is wearing prosthetics.

"I have never had plastic surgery," Gaga said, adding that the protrusions are "not prosthetics, they're my bones".

The singer insisted that the bones have always been inside her. "I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am," she said.

Gaga, known for stunts such as setting her piano on fire and wearing a raw meat dress, went on to say that the bones "come out when I'm inspired" and that everyone has them.

Reuters