Lady Gaga's meat couture

Following last week's frankly amateurish meat bikini for Japanese Men's Vogue, Lady Gaga's broken out the skirt steak once again for the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters This time she's gone for the full outfit with matching hat, bag and footwear (although potato wedges might have been more appropriate) Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features Last week's effort, a meatkini as worn on the cover of Vogue Hommes Japan. Gaga's tailoring butcher really has improved radically over the weekend Photograph: Vogue Hommes Japan Perhaps the renewed effort was inspired by other, more finely crafted examples of meat couture. This dress made from bacon and salami was designed, made and is modelled by Jia of jiajem.com Photograph: Daguru/ jiajem.com Photograph: Daguru/jiajem.com ... and hasn't she done well? You can read all about how she did it here Photograph: Daguru/ jiajem.com Photograph: Daguru/jiajem.com Once you have the frock, you need something to wear underneath. Nicky Stein-Grohs models her 'bacon bra 2.0' Photograph: Alex Lazara / bacontits.com Photograph: Alex Lazara/bacontits.com ... and just to prove you don't have to be young or attractive to wear meat, here's our very own Tim Hayward modelling his home-cured bacon (not that we really need an excuse to trot out this old chestnut but the opportunity was just too good to miss) Photograph: Linda Nylind/Guardian ... and let's face it, no gallery of people wearing meat would be complete without at least a nod to the original hatsofmeat.com . Here we have the rib helmet ... Photograph: hatsofmeat.com Photograph: hatsofmeat.com ... and here, the 'you looking at meat?' helmet. We've saved the worst till last - click again if you dare (and / or your work IT department doesn't take a dim view of people looking at bacon lingerie ...) Photograph: hatsofmeat.com Photograph: hatsofmeat.com ... and here it is, the piece de resistance. Bacon doesn't have to be cooked to be fashioned into a garment as Brian Kusler (not pictured) has ably demonstrated in one of his rasher moments with this disturbingly clingy bacon bra Photograph: Brian Kusler/Flickr Photograph: Brian Kusler/Flickr