Lady Gaga speaks about her bulletproofed dress at Biden's inauguration

"It was a scary time in this country," she told Stephen Colbert.
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Meera Navlakha
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Lady Gaga has had quite a year, wowing critics with House of Gucci, and singing the national anthem at President Joe Biden's inauguration, among, you know, everything else.

"It was one of the proudest moments I've ever had as a musician and a performer," she told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show, saying that singing the national anthem felt all the more powerful in the immediate wake of the Capitol riot.

Notably, she talked about her Schiaparelli-designed dress at the performance, and one extra element of it. "There was a bulletproof vest sewn into the dress," she said, which ensured peace of mind for both herself and her family. Gaga revealed this element of the dress in a Vogue interview at the beginning of November.

"It was a scary time in this country," Gaga said. "I care a lot about my family. As a performer, I understand that I put myself in all types of dangerous situations in order to do what I love. And so I did that for myself, but for my family, as well, so that my mom and dad and my sister would feel confident."

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Meera Navlakha

Meera is a journalist based between London and New York. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Vice, The Independent, Vogue India, W Magazine, and others. She was previously a Culture Reporter at Mashable. 


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