Mad hatter Gaga lands fashion internship - Stuff
Lady Gaga has secured an internship with milliner Philip Treacy.
The fashion-conscious pop star is set to undertake work experience with the hat maker, who created the controversial antler headpiece Princess Beatrice wore to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William and Catherine's wedding earlier this year.
Gaga applied for the position by sending her resume to Treacy in 2010 and then approached him directly at his London atelier the day before she won Best International Female artist, Best Breakthrough Act and Best Album for her debut album The Fame at the 2010 BRIT Awards.
"She plans to [do an internship with me]. She already visited me," Treacy said.
"Four burly bodyguards arrived - Lady Gaga's security team - to check out the security of the building. I looked at them as if to say 'What?! Who is going to take a pot shot Lady Gaga?'
"She is young, talented and peculiar, which I like."
Treacy has designed a number of Gaga's more attention-grabbing and peculiar hats over the years. He created head gear for the London leg of her recent Monster Ball tour including the glittering lobster headpiece and the silver, solar system inspired hat she wore to the 2010 Grammy Awards.
It is not confirmed when she will begin learning the ropes of hat making from the UK's most revered milliner or if she will undertake standard duties like photocopying, taking coffee orders or answering phones.
Requirements for the coveted position state that, "you need to have experience and be very, very quick."
Gaga has no formal fashion qualifications however her second column in the international fashion publication V Magazine has just been published.
In it she takes the opportunity to dissect her style and pay homage to Treacy.
"If you were to ask me to remove my Philip Treacy hat at a party, in truth it is the emotional and physical equivalent of requesting I remove my liver," she wrote.
Treacy shot to fame in 1989 when he was discovered by stylist, magazine editor and Andy Warhol's friend, the late Isabella Blow.
He designed her headdress for her second wedding and since then he has gone on to design hats for royalty, including the Queen, haute-couture fashion shows and films.
However Gaga is not the first celebrity to embark on a fashion internship.
In 2008, Grammy award winning rapper Kanye West worked behind-the-scenes at the New York headquarters of the US high-street chain Gap and plans to continue his work experience with Raf Simons, Louis Vuitton or under Karl Lagerfeld at Fendi.
- Sydney Morning Herald
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