SHOWstudio.com is set to launch its latest film project- The Fashion Body- this summer, bringing together the union of the body, fashion and the moving image. The project features a whole host of celebrity friends enlisted to help create the video montage with creative director Nick Knight taking charge of the wondrous visual creation.

A film of Lady Gaga eating an animal heart, super model Lily Cole and renowned designer Gareth Pugh are just a few of the exclusive contributors making their own personal short film for SHOWstudio.com, aiming to celebrate their chosen body part through items of fashion.

The Fashion Body runs as as extension to their current exhibition Inside/Out, an idea in which the conventional aspects of beauty are challenged by using body parts and internal organs as graphic imagery. An unusual take on beauty but none the less a rather intriguing one.

The Home of Fashion Film looks set to showcase their latest venture throughout summer, with films debuting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, providing a delightful insight into elusive celebrities and their take on the weird and wonderful happenings in fashion.

Lady Gaga has jetted round the world FIVE times in just one year. The Poker Face star has racked up 130,000 air miles in the past 12 months, travelling to 78 different cities on her Monster Ball World Tour.

That’s the equivalent of circling the earth’s circumference almost five times over.

At one point she flew from Germany to New York City on May 12 to perform with Elton John and Sting on May 13 – then the next day flew back to Europe to play in the Netherlands. And while the 24-year-old has taken in four of the world’s seven continents in the last year, it has not been without its dangers.

She was forced to cancel a gig in Indiana in January after she collapsed backstage. She revealed on social networking site Twitter: ‘An hour before the show, I was feeling dizzy and having trouble breathing.’ Paramedics warned her she was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration.

Her Monster Ball tour is set continue into 2011.

Spiritual guru, Deepak Chopra discusses his relationship with international pop icon Lady Gaga, admiring her innovative talent and even comparing her lyrics to the poetry of the Beatles. Deepak excitedly admires what she has accomplished at such a young age and describes her as a ”combination of wisdom, angst, rebellion, exquisite music, and great performance.”

Lady Gaga’s first ever remix album is finally being released in America on August 3rd. Make sure you get a copy by pre-ordering it here!

Lady Gaga before the fame This is Lady Gaga as we’ve never seen her before – without all the costumes and theatrics she’s known for rocking on stage and off. This set of photos gives fans a rare glimpse of Gaga before she found fame with her mega hit Just Dance, when she went by her birth name Stefani Germanotta and worked as a burlesque dancer in New York’s Lower East Side. A selection of the images show the singer in her more natural brunette days, until she decided to make a style statement and dyed her hair platinum blonde.

The shots of Gaga singing on stage with the two dancers at the Slipper Room in October, 2007 were taken at her very first performance with her new look – and one of the last shows she staged before she moved to Los Angeles. Some of the more candid pictures feature Gaga with her best friend Lady Starlight, a performer she befriended during her burlesque days and has kept on her side as a member of her behind-the-scenes creative team, Haus of Gaga. One particular photo captures a playful, intimate exchange between the two friends while Starlight performs onstage, with a dark-haired Gaga stuffing a tip in her friend’s bra top – using her mouth. The incident took place in June, 2007 at St. Jerome’s bar, the Manhattan venue run by Gaga’s on/off boyfriend Luc Carl.

And Gaga continues to keep Starlight close – her pal has been handed her own slot on the Poker Face hitmaker’s The Monster Ball Tour, playing a DJ set before the outrageous singer takes to the stage herself on her U.S. tour.

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Newsweek — Many of us keep track of what tops the box-office and iTunes charts, but can anybody even guess what’s the most-viewed YouTube video of all time? No, it doesn’t involve a baby or a kid doing something hilarious. The answer is “Bad Romance,” the music video starring Lady Gaga shimmying in what looks like an underground brothel. As of press time it had been viewed 244,529,375 times. The runner-up, and catching up fast, is the music video for Justin Bieber’s song “Baby,” with 243,479,950 views. No. 3 features a real baby (“Charlie Bit My Finger—Again”), though there’s another video, Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the U.S.A.,” at No. 5, with 138 million views. Of course, music videos make up only a fraction of YouTube’s audience as the second-largest search engine after Google, but the Web site has singlehandedly revived the genre—with a little help from a woman who wears soda cans in her hair.

Once upon a time, when people purchased their favorite songs on records and cassettes, the music video was a touchstone of popular culture. MTV launched in 1981 as a network devoted to airing them 24 hours a day—remember the rise of the VJ? But just like video killed the radio star, reality TV killed the music video. In the late ’90s, music channels stopped being synonymous with music—and started airing washed-up music stars, such as the Osbournes and the Lachey-Simpsons, bickering in the comfort of their own McMansions. Not long after TRL was axed in 2008, music videos were relegated to the graveyard shift; even now, they air on MTV only between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m. As the music business imploded on the back of illegal downloads, videos—once seen as the best promotion to help boost albums—were a luxury that didn’t make sense.

And then came music to record executives’ ears: YouTube, which has partnered with a company named Vevo to monetize a medium that was as dated as a pair of disco shoes. Every time YouTube broadcasts a video through Vevo online, it is accompanied by a brief ad, and for every 1,000 such “impressions,” Vevo earns at least $25. The reason music videos have come back from the dead is simple. They are the perfect length—three to five minutes—for abbreviated online attention spans. They are easy to share, tweet, Facebook, and comment on. You can watch them from the comfort of your own home (or cubicle, when you’re procrastinating at work). Some videos are now so high in demand, they even have their own trailers. Is it just a coincidence that the movie industry feels so sluggish at the same time music videos are taking off?

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WWD — Executives at Coty Inc. denied a report circulating online that the company has signed a fragrance deal with Lady Gaga. “I know nothing of this project,” said Steve Mormoris, senior vice president of global marketing for the firm’s Coty Beauty division. “It is a totally false rumor.” Gaga’s involvement in beauty includes acting as a spokeswoman for the MAC AIDS Fund. She collaborated with the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc.-owned MAC Cosmetics brand to create a signature Viva Glam lipstick in a “bubble-gummy” pink shade, which hit stores in February. Despite Coty’s denial, speculation continues to percolate.

DJ Hero is giving away a GaGa monster prize pack! (see photo below) All you have to do is upload a photo of your best GaGa impersonation on their http://www.facebook.com/djhero wall!

Singer Lady Gaga performs on NBC’s “Today” at Rockefeller Center on July 9, 2010 in New York City. Thanks to Joseph for the high resolution shots!

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