View full sizeFile | AP Jun Francisco, director of collections management at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, displays a boot and dress made of meat worn by Lady Gaga in the museum's vault. The museum will display the cured, hand-sewn meat dress and boots the pop star wore.Lady Gaga's meat dress is will be put on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for everyone to see.
The dress, which is made from layers of Argentinean beef, will be part of an exhibit called "Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power," The Associated Press reported.
The show runs until February 2012. Click here for the details on this Cleveland exhibit.
Gaga first debuted the controversial outfit at last year's MTV Video Music Awards when she accepted her trophy for "Bad Romance."
She later appeared wearing the outfit at various media outlets.
View full sizeFile | AP The dress and boots, which had turned brown from the chemical preservation process, have been painted to return them to their original color. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)"If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights, pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones.
And, I am not a piece of meat," Gaga explained about her wardrobe statement when she appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
The dress was designed by Franc Fernandez and Nichola Formichetti and has since been kept in a meat locker, doused with chemicals and then dried out before it was transported to the museum in Cleveland, omg! by Yahoo! reports.
As for the smell?
Hall of Fame spokeswoman Margaret Thresher says the process caused the garb to dehydrate so it was painted to look "fresh."