Happy 39th Birthday, Lady Gaga! Celebrate with the Pop Star's Most Out-of-This-World Looks

At the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards, the singer showed up in a hairy outfit and matching purse by her own design label, Haus of Gaga.

In Her Orbit

For the 2010 Grammy Awards, Alexander McQueen dressed the star in this celestial gown. Anyone else reminded of Saturn?

Phantom of the Opera

Gaga maintained her love of lace with a white lace Venetian mask. In this tiered white dress — worn for the 2010 Brit Awards in London — she looked like she could be haunting an opera house.

Where's the Beef?

Gaga's dress and shoes made of raw meat were ... unconventional, to say the least. For a time after she wore it to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, the ensemble went on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Born This Way

The singer arrived at the 2011 Grammys in an egg-shaped vessel and eventually emerged on stage with pointy, prosthetic shoulders.

Like Lightning

On the Good Morning America stage in 2011, Gaga donned a black vinyl jacket with spikes over a sheer bodysuit.

New Ideas

"When [the industry] wanted me to be sexy or they wanted me to be pop, I ... put some absurd spin on it," she said in her Netflix documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two. Here, she literally spins during a 2013 concert in Brooklyn, New York.

The White Witch

With dilated pupils and teased-out hair, this 2013 outfit for the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in N.Y.C. reminds us of Narnia.

Sticking Out

The "Rain on Me" singer arrived at the VIP Room club in Paris in 2014 in a spiked ... dress? Coverall? Whatever it's called, we stan.

Got Legs

Because Gaga has pushed the boundaries of fashion, music and performance, this polka dot serpent look — part of her 2014 concert tour — was startling but not surprising.

Can't Read Her Poker Face

In her Netflix documentary, Gaga: Five Foot Two, the singer opened up about using fashion as a way to assert control. Here, she makes a statement in N.Y.C. in 2019.

Bubbled Up

The singer channeled her inner astronaut for this look, one of her nine fabulous costume changes during her hosting gig at the 2020 VMAs.

Feathers and Frills

Bird of Paradise ... or Lady Gaga at the 2020 VMAs?

Welcome to Planet Chromatica

Ushering in the Chromatica era, Gaga accepted the VMA Tricon Award at the 2020 ceremony in a tin foil-esque ensemble complete with a fashionable mask.

Singing the Blues

As she's made her move into the movies realm, Gaga has still kept her edge, as evidenced by her standoud wrap around her glam gown at the 2021 opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Gucci Gang

Her first House of Gucci premiere look was spot-on, too, combining red carpet realness with some rock edge in the form of fishnets and boots.

G for Green and Gorgeous

Though her dress at the 2022 BAFTAs was as classic as it gets, her accessories — the tall shoes, the hairy purse! — made Gaga, well, Gaga.

Drag King Diva

Regrettably, Lady Gaga's alter ego Jo Calderone is no longer with us, the singer told  during her polygraph test. But we have to memorialize when Gaga made headlines by attending the 2011 MTV VMAs in full drag.

Bleeding Heart

In a 2009 VMA performance of "Paparazzi" that changed lives, Gaga delivered a bloody amazing spectacle, oozing fake blood from her two-piece. It gave theater kid, it gave camp, it gave drama. She was — and still is — the moment.

Layers on Layers

As a co-chair of the 2019 Met Gala, fashion's biggest night, Gaga had to outdo herself — so she wore four different outfits, removing layer after layer as she walked the carpet.

At a fan screening of the Gaga Chromatica Ball tour film, she brought the album's extraterrestrial theme to the carpet, showing up in an alien egg-shaped cage.

She continued the otherworldly dress code into the theater, changing into a lacy, high-shouldered black number with a matching eye mask before talking to fans.

Pink Peacock

For her 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony performance, Gaga put on a show, as expected, and she made it pop with pink. Her black bodysuit had a long train that burst into pink feathers at the end, while dancers flanked her with pink pom-poms.

Belle of the Ball Gown

During the Venice International Film Festival, Gaga paired a voluminous black gown with an elaborate head piece at the premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux.