Lady Gaga's meat dress becomes museum exhibit

Lady Gaga wears a dress made of meat at 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Supplied photo.
Lady Gaga wears a dress made of meat at 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Supplied photo.
Lady Gaga's dress made of meat, shown in the in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's vault. The...
Lady Gaga's dress made of meat, shown in the in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's vault. The museum will display the cured, hand-sewn meat dress and boots as part of the recently opened Women Who Rock exhibit. Photo by AP.

Lady Gaga made history at last year's MTV Video Music Awards when she turned butcher's cuts into high fashion.

This week, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will unveil the singer's infamous raw-meat dress to the public.

The dress - made of layers of Argentinian beef - was kept in a meat locker, placed in a vat of chemicals and then dried out by taxidermists in California before being transported to the museum.

Hall of Fame spokeswoman Margaret Thresher said the dress took on a "dark, beef-jerky'' look while dehydrating, so it was painted to look "fresh'' afterwards.

The entire process took several months.

The dress is being displayed as part of the "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power'' exhibit, which runs until February next year.

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