Pop star Lady Gaga
caused controversy by wearing a dress made from raw beef at the MTV Music Video
Awards ceremony in Los Angeles in September 2010.
A meat dress very
similar in appearance to that worn by Lady Gaga was modelled by Cat Johnson for
John Pretious as part of his BA in Graphic Design at Middlesex Polytechnic in
spring 1983, and the image was subsequently used for the cover of the Undertones
album All Wrapped Up, released in November 1983:
Multimedia artist
Linder Sterling wore a dress of chicken meat stitched to black net at a
performance by post-punk group Ludus at the Hacienda club, Manchester
on 5th November 1982:
The earliest documented
example of a garment made from meat was at the Slade School of Art postgraduate
degree exhibition opening in London in July 1979, when performance artist
Robert Connolly wore a two-piece suit made from slices of salami stitched
together:
The title of that performance was The Edible Guest.
