Lady Gaga Revealed the Gothic Dress She Was Planning to Wear to the Met Gala

It's "garden gimp" season.

Just when the days of Lady Gaga stepping out in outfits made out of raw meat, red latex, and human hair seemed to be over, Mother Monster is back with not one, but two, over-the-top looks for the world premiere of Gaga Chromatica Ball. Just hours after taking over feeds in a white number that was more car than dress, the multi-hyphenate talent turned heads in an over-the-top black outfit she revealed she’d originally been planning to wear for this year’s Met Gala.

The “Bad Romance” singer hasn’t attended the annual star-studded fashion extravaganza since 2019, when she memorably posed on the Met Gala steps in four separate outfits. However, while promoting her upcoming HBO concert special in Los Angeles on Friday, May 24, Lady Gaga debuted the outfit she’d hoped to wear for this year’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” theme with a tongue-in-cheek reference to the “garden of time” dress code on Instagram.

Gaga’s outfit, which she called “the gimp of the garden,” was a black Victorian-style AZIZ dress with an embroidered lace bodice and attached hood in the same material. The dramatic black number, which featured a floor-grazing black skirt and intricately embroidered long sleeves, was paired with a black Phillip Treacy mask with poison ivy-inspired lace detailing that extended out from her face. The House of Gucci actress covered her ice-blonde hair with the hood and kept her eyes bare, adding a pop of color with a swipe of matte rose lipstick. In some of the photos shown in the Instagram carousel, Gaga posed with a gothic blood red rose in her mouth.

While she was a no-show at the Met Gala this year, Lady Gaga didn’t let the inventive outfit go to waste, instead wearing it for the Q&A portion of her Gaga Chromatica Ball premiere ahead of the film’s release on May 25. During the event, the singer also teased her upcoming seventh album, calling it a “completely different project” compared to her past EPs, although she didn’t share a set release date for her Little Monsters.

"I have been working on my new music all the time and I truly live and breathe it," she told ET at the event, as well as a tentative timeline for its release. “[My fans] hate when I say, 'Soon,' but soon.”

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